Villalona News

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Angel Villalona says he is withdrawing his lawsuit against the San Francisco Giants after the team decided to reinstate him to its farm system.

8 months ago Merope 11 comments 0 recs |

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Is this something to watch for next year or is the kid even a prospect anymore? I know he’s still under Giants contract, but is he worthy of putting him in talks of near call-ups or anything about single A ball?

by colin.muller on Oct 4, 2011 8:58 PM PDT reply actions

He had his visa revoked. So until that is resolved, there no sense talking about anything I guess.

Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.

TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.

by Merope on Oct 4, 2011 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions

He was freed from his case in the DR…probably won’t be long until his visa is cleared and working for the Giants. Maybe if he was 35 years old, the Giants would be pulling to get him back faster so they can plug him in at SS.

by colin.muller on Oct 4, 2011 9:12 PM PDT reply actions

Visa

The case being dropped will not necessarily have any relation to the U.S. Embassy issuing a visa. If the embassy thinks that he is an undesirable, they will not issue.

by Gokudo on Oct 5, 2011 9:06 AM PDT reply actions

Pretty hard to justify considering someone “an undesirable” if he hasn’t been shown to have done anything wrong, whatsoever. As far as I know, that’s the case with Villalona.

by campanari on Oct 5, 2011 4:40 PM PDT up reply actions

I don’t know, the Kinks were considered undesirables for years without havin done anything. Their inability to tour here for about 10 years while they were doing most of their best work probably had a large impact on their US sales and general perception.

MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!

by Roger on Oct 5, 2011 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions

Man, the government kept the Sex Pistols off of Saturday Night Live and they had to break up, and Elvis Costello became a big star ahead. If Villalona was a White Sox player, Obama would give him his Visa with no problem, and throw in a Master Card and an American Express card too. Screw this system. Occupy Wall Street!!!

Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.

by rxmeister on Oct 6, 2011 5:27 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs