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Zito just does'nt get it

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 I was wondering if Zito was going to go silently into the off season and do his workout routine with Wilson and put a bad season behind him. Nope he had to call Gary Radnich on KNBR and bitch and moan about how fans and media picked on him this year and how much he loves himself.

Zito calls Radnich 5 minutes after the stock market dropped about 700 points when the House rejected the bailout bill. It was about a 25 min interview off the cuff with Radnich handling himself like the pro he is. I almost gagged on my breakfast 3 or 4 times durring the interview on how moronic Zito came off. Zito came off like a guy trying for the part of Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High 2.

Zito just does'nt get it that the fans and media don't think he is evil (his words). He has to realize he cost MaGowan his job and is sucking up like 1/5 of the payroll with his awful two years with the Giants. Fans want a winner and he has let them down. He talked about how he is like Lincecum 7 years ago (Huh!). He blames the baseball structure for his contract and how he earned his 126 mill from the times he spent with the A's. When do the Giants get their return?

Zito has now put a 1000 pound monkey on his back for next year since he says he has righted his ship. What happens next year if he starts 0-4 or 2-6? That monkey just gets bigger every time he opens his mouth. Whoever is giving this guy advice on handling his situation might be dumber than Zito.

I advise Giants fans to check out this interview on KNBR.com and laugh,shake your head and wonder why Zito just does'nt get it.

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Does’nt [sic] he?

by satyricrash on Sep 30, 2008 12:58 PM PDT   0 recs

also,

i really don’t give a shit. Zito made his money through the free market economy. bully for him. it screwed us but it’s not his fault he’s overpaid.

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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 30, 2008 12:59 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Nah, but if he’s actually serious in his going on the radio and singing about the “nobody likes me everybody hates me guess I’ll go eat worms” song then I have to ask WTF he’s on. Nobody wants to hear that noise.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 30, 2008 1:03 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I propose a trade

I promise to listen to the noise if you can promise me I’ll never have to watch him pitch.

by Moggeee on Sep 30, 2008 1:07 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

You have my word

The best I can do is either steal your television or poke you in the eye.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 30, 2008 1:13 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

cum on

feel the noize

FIRE BRIAN SABEAN

by zenbitz on Oct 1, 2008 11:56 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

why anybody listens to sports radio is way way way beyond me.

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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 30, 2008 1:13 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Because those who do enjoy listening to other know-nothing blowhards?

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 30, 2008 1:25 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Why seek out hot air?

I’m quite satisfied with the blowhards on this site.

by Moggeee on Sep 30, 2008 1:29 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Its really not much different than blogging. People call in to bitch and moan. People blog to bitch and moan.

by faust10 on Sep 30, 2008 5:00 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

yeah, but he isn’t earning his keep. that’s the point. he doesn’t care and that’s fine, but we don’t have to like him, and we’re not gonna stop cursing his name when he sucks.

Bonds stands alone.

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by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 1, 2008 8:30 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Overpaid

The understatement of the year. Go listen to the interview, it is strange but funny also.

by TakeAGiantStepNGo on Sep 30, 2008 1:03 PM PDT   0 recs

no

mike hampton is overpayed to your hyperbole. Zito was a below average or average #4 starter. I listened to a bit of the interiew, it’s awkward and weird. who cares?

also, use the +reply button.

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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 30, 2008 1:14 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Zito was one of the worst 10 pitchers in the league. He was lucky he did’nt end up in Fresno.

Sports are man's last refuge from the insanity of life.

by TakeAGiantStepNGo on Sep 30, 2008 1:22 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Sounds and looks like a No. 5

or a middling spot starter.

I still blame Sabean, even though he’d like to share the shame of the signing with the whole organization (see yesterday’s “Who, Me?” interview.)

by Moggeee on Sep 30, 2008 1:28 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

yeah but at least he didn’t trade Randy Moss for a 4th round draft pick over the all controllilng owner’s wishes…

by tyrannoman on Oct 1, 2008 4:29 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

k

Barry Zito had a tRA+ of 91 this year. that means his component stats should have given him an ERA of 9% worse than the average NL (i think) starter in a neutral run environment.

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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 30, 2008 1:31 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

It was about a 25 min interview off the cuff with Radnich handling himself like the pro he is. I almost gagged on my breakfast 3 or 4 times durring the interview on how moronic Zito came off after reading you call Gary Radnich a pro.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Sep 30, 2008 1:38 PM PDT   0 recs

whoah format crazy fail

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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Sep 30, 2008 2:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

No, I meant it to look that way. Don’t ask me why, but I think it’s more amusing when the blockquote suddenly and inexplicably goes from verbatim quote to my own person voice in the matter of an extended strikethrough.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Sep 30, 2008 3:46 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I thought Radnich handled himself like the douchenozzle he is.

..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.

by Cookyman on Sep 30, 2008 3:01 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

douchenozzle. awesome.

Bonds stands alone.

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by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 1, 2008 8:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

+1

Tim Lincecum is Baseball's Chuck Norris

by Azantor on Oct 1, 2008 11:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

+1

Hector Sanchez: really getting tired of playing baseball in foreign countries...

by tedfordfan on Sep 30, 2008 3:57 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Anyone who considers Radnich a "pro"

…has a credibility problem in my book.

Just sayin is all.

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by bgunn on Sep 30, 2008 2:11 PM PDT   0 recs

Gary is a pro

A professional jackass.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Sep 30, 2008 2:23 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I support this comment.

"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler

by JRPhillips on Sep 30, 2008 2:44 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

The best part about Radnich

is watching the anchors on whatever newscast he’s still on CRINGE as he tries to toss it back to them after his sports segment. they look at him like he has 3 heads. it rules.

Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.

by delorean on Sep 30, 2008 2:46 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

they’re not too bright either.

Bonds stands alone.

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by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 1, 2008 8:33 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Somewhat OT

but this whole notion that Magowan was forced out by the other Giants owners because of the Zito contract strikes me as, among other things, stupifyingly provincial. Is there anybody in the baseball loving universe outside of SF who doesn’t assume he was forced out by Selig’s office as fallout from the Mitchell Report? I really think we need to stop staring at the trees and check out the forest on this one.

Get the hell out the way Bengie, Pablito's hit the show!

by Roger on Sep 30, 2008 2:27 PM PDT   0 recs

I don't assume either

But there certainly has been more chatter about the Zito contract than anything about the Mitchell Report. I haven’t heard a single rumor to that effect.

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by delorean on Sep 30, 2008 2:41 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I think that was the speculation in the Chornicle

around the name he first made the announcement. I could be wrong, too cool to fact check.

"Forget it Donny, you're out of you're element"-Walter Sobchak

by icanplaythird on Sep 30, 2008 3:02 PM PDT to parent up   1 recs

I think that’s in SF. Back East that’s certainly not the way that story was perceived.

Get the hell out the way Bengie, Pablito's hit the show!

by Roger on Oct 1, 2008 8:41 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Well, I’m convinced!

Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.

by delorean on Oct 1, 2008 9:01 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Ok, fine have a link: check way down in the Mitchell Report and Magowan’s Departure section. While they do note Heyman’s article that the timing was related to the Giant’s poor record the last few years, it notes that doesn’t really ring true, and says that rumors had been floating since January that he needed to step down as damage control for the industry.

That’s a lot of the kind of thing I’ve seen the wink wink nudge nudge "no this isn’t about the Mitchell Report, he just wants to spend time with his family’ thing.

Actually doing a quick google search, it looks like the SJ Mercury News made that connection as well explicitly on the day the retirement news broke, as did ESPN.com (further down in the “Mixed Results” graph there’s a quote from ESPN.com with a 5/17 dateline that he got “smacked down by MLB for his refusal to deal with steroid problems.”

And to clarify, I’m not saying anything definitive about how and why Magowan decided to step down, I’m just saying that the perception of those hows and whys on this blog (which are made with just as little inside knowledge as mine) are significantly different from the same perception in the baseball world at large.

Get the hell out the way Bengie, Pablito's hit the show!

by Roger on Oct 1, 2008 9:23 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

How would that work, exactly?

Step me through the mechanics of how a Commissioner “forces out” a team’s owner, other than by banishment or other penalty, as with Marge Schott. How does that work behind the scenes?

A managing general partner can only be removed as such by the other general partners OF THAT TEAM. So they have to vote the incumbent out (or choose not to renew him, if that is how his deal is structured). So you’re saying that Selig… what, hypnotized all the other Giants general partners? Drugged them? Politicked them in such a way that never came out?

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by Mayor of 311 on Sep 30, 2008 3:06 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Well...

He could ask him to step down now or face a protracted and public investigation of the entire front office.

Seems like a perfectly reasonable conspiracy theory to me, and fits a broad definition of “forced out.”

VAE PVTO DEVS FIO

by Bhaakon on Sep 30, 2008 3:51 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Exactly

He and his allies among the owners (and if I’m not mistaken there are currently 4 owners who were once upon a time his frat brother in college) have some behind the scenes conversations where they tell Peter “the media and Congress are calling for your blood to sate them, but I won’t make you the public scapegoat and fill the headlines everyday with an investigation of you and your club if you decide this is a good time to retire.”

That really doesn’t seem that difficult.

And, really, as SF certainly knows quite well, league commissioners can step in and literally take a team away from an owner — that’s exactly how we got stuck with the York family you might recall.

Get the hell out the way Bengie, Pablito's hit the show!

by Roger on Oct 1, 2008 8:41 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

so why wasnt sabean fired?

cuz he knew just as much as magowan did

by bacci40 on Oct 1, 2008 12:26 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Sabean's not an owner, he's an employee

He may have legal recourse for unjust termination.

Eliminating both simultaneously would also make the reasons fairly obvious, maybe Selig wants a subtle threat to owners w/o setting the stage for a messy inquisition.

VAE PVTO DEVS FIO

by Bhaakon on Oct 1, 2008 12:43 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

What a horrible thing to say!

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by WalrusMan on Sep 30, 2008 4:02 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

He won me over

Barry won me over when he was asked what he would do if he were sent to Fresno and replied, “Go down there and work my butt off.”

by sharksrog on Sep 30, 2008 4:11 PM PDT   0 recs

VAE PVTO DEVS FIO

by Bhaakon on Sep 30, 2008 4:22 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Good for Barry. I want to call in and give Radnich shit every time I hear his voice.

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by capnk on Sep 30, 2008 4:20 PM PDT   0 recs

If I have to hear “Listen to me, and listen to me good,” one more damn time, I’m sticking a fork into each ear until I can no longer hear his horrid, obnoxious voice.

"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler

by JRPhillips on Sep 30, 2008 4:36 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

ill confess

i love the drops…ducks

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by BrianBokake on Sep 30, 2008 8:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

MaGowan

I love the combination of the correct spelling with the incorrect capitalization. Kudos!

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by jcb9 on Sep 30, 2008 4:48 PM PDT   0 recs

This poster is no stinking conformist

to correct capitalization, or punctuation, for that matter. He finally used a comma ( where’s the guy beating the horse?) in the last paragraph. The funny thing was that he bypassed so many places where a comma was needed, and where he did use one, given the syntax, should have used a semi-colon.

I don’t mean to mean to come off as some sort of anal-retentive twit that insists on perfect English. I make more than enough gramatical errors that I normally don’t say anything about someone else’s grammar. But these posts are just painful to read.

I visit the McCovey Chronicles because the level of writing is, for the most part, top-notch. A lot of the contributors are smart and funny, and I am constantly amazed at how clever some of the posts are. (See; I just ended a sentence in a preposition.)

I know, no one is forcing me to read these posts, but it irritates me that this blog is being polluted with this kind of drivel.

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by marklar on Sep 30, 2008 5:59 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Excuse me...

That should have been Whom not Who.

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by WalrusMan on Sep 30, 2008 7:07 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Good Interview

Zito needs to tell everyone to STFU!

by ACgiant97 on Sep 30, 2008 4:52 PM PDT   0 recs

Are you suggesting a door-to-door tour of the Bay Area?

anything to keep him off the mound.

VAE PVTO DEVS FIO

by Bhaakon on Sep 30, 2008 4:56 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Two failed posts in two days…this kid’s got a shot at the record!

Zooperstars, they quack me up!

by Goofus on Sep 30, 2008 5:13 PM PDT   0 recs

No chance..

Didn’t we have someone who had 4 straight FanPosts that were mostly filler, 2 were being discussed in FanShots and the other 2 had been reported down below?

Or was that just a nightmare?

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How is my adopted son almost twice as old as I am? Nevermind...Go Omar! Warm the Bench!

by WalrusMan on Sep 30, 2008 7:09 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I like Zito, and I agree with a lot of the things he said.

by AmorVincitOmnia on Sep 30, 2008 7:23 PM PDT   0 recs

Thanks for joining the discussion, Barry.

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by SoFa King Mike on Sep 30, 2008 8:46 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I am honestly intrigued

To see what Zito shows up in spring training look like. From all accounts, Wilson is one serious fucker when it comes to working out.

Could be a real positive. Zito w/ Wilson’s physique could regain some effectiveness.

On the flip side, Zito could expose Wilson to the starlet boning lifestyle, and the whole situation could go down hill.

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Sep 30, 2008 8:49 PM PDT   0 recs

Zito could expose Wilson to the starlet boning lifestyle

ONE MORE ROUND!

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by SoFa King Mike on Sep 30, 2008 8:53 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Frankly,

This is a lifestyle I wouldn’t mind taking a shot at.

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Sep 30, 2008 9:57 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

The venereal diseases detract me from this sort of lifestyle

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by SoFa King Mike on Oct 1, 2008 8:46 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Rationalizing a bit, are we?

Zooperstars, they quack me up!

by Goofus on Oct 1, 2008 11:19 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Don't you mean?

One more round on the mound of pound!

(with apologies to Pablo)

by Moggeee on Sep 30, 2008 10:00 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

So..

Zito is going to come into spring training throwing 100 MPH? Sweet!

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by WalrusMan on Oct 1, 2008 7:53 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

How about Wilson learning to throw a 89 MPH change up?

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by SoFa King Mike on Oct 1, 2008 8:44 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

I’m already okay with his 89 mph cutter. Maybe Nen can teach Zito how to throw a 93 mph slider…

by tyrannoman on Oct 1, 2008 4:32 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Zito will break Wilson.

I’m pretty sure Wilson will show up in Spring Training as nothing but flab and unable to hit 88 on the radar gun.

Bonds stands alone.

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by nostocksjustbonds on Oct 1, 2008 8:37 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Wilson will introduce Zito to New Age Jesus.

And then he’ll break him.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Oct 1, 2008 8:57 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Actually Zito wasn't that bad

the last 2 months of the season. His whip was 1.95, 1.56, 1.99, and 1.65 every month through July. In August and September it was 1.29 and 1.28.

It’s an absolutely terrible contract; I think we all agree. But it’s the reality we all have to live with, If he has actually discovered something and can pitch as well next year as he did at the end of this season he can be a very effective 3rd or 4th guy.

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by marklar on Oct 1, 2008 5:08 PM PDT   0 recs

There's an old saying in Tennessee

It’s actually in Texas, I’m sure you heard it in Tennessee, it goes ‘fool me once… Shame on… Shame on YOU… You fool me can’t get fooled again!’

We thought the exact same thing at the end of last year. And he went out and did what Barry Zito always does, he pitches piss poor in the first half, then turns it up a notch in the second half. October 1st, 2008 prediction for the 2009 season: Zito will suck in the first half, and look better in the second half.

"He called the sh** POOP!" -- Adam Sandler

by JRPhillips on Oct 1, 2008 5:37 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

LOL

Ahh, W. He has a gift for the turn of a phrase.

It’s true that the pattern is similar to 2007, but it’s not as extreme as 2008. He wasn’t nearly as bad at any time last year as he was the first part of this year. It was so ugly this year that I hope it is something we never have to see again.

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by marklar on Oct 1, 2008 6:04 PM PDT