No chance of dealing Lincecum or Cain

Well good.

7 months ago HarbirD 12 comments 0 recs |

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DOG BITES MAN!

"The knowledge of the game is inversely proportional to the price of the seat." ---Bill Veeck. •Read My Blarrrgh...er, um....Comic. That doesn't really come across so well when said sarcastically. The Lunatic Fringe•

by BruteSentiment on Nov 13, 2011 12:03 AM PST reply actions

Duh

"It's too LATE to stop now!" - John Lee Hooker

by Rolfyboy on Nov 13, 2011 8:24 AM PST reply actions

Sabes not returning phone calls again – meanest GM ever!

"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner

by Fla-Giant on Nov 13, 2011 8:30 AM PST reply actions

More Important

is that Firefly: The Complete Series on BluRay is available on Amazon for $18.99

I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.

by nvsfg on Nov 13, 2011 9:52 AM PST reply actions

Awesome!

I can now make out my Christmas wish list.

    Lund: You know, your coat is kinda a brownish color…
    Mal: It was on sale. (calmly sips drink)
    Lund: You didn’t toast. You know, I’m thinkin’ you one of ‘em In’e’pen’ents.
    Mal: And I’m thinkin’ you weren’t burdened with an overabundance of schooling. So why don’t we just ignore each other until we go away?
    Lund: The In’e’pen’ents were a bunch of cowardly, inbred piss-pots. Should’ve been killed off of every world spinnin’.
    Mal: [turns] Say that to my face.
    Lund: I said you’re a coward and a piss-pot. Now what are you gonna do about it?
    Mal: [smiles] Nothing. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind you.
    [Lund turns, and Zoe knocks him out with the butt of her rifle]
    Mal: Drunks are so cute.

Paying Willie Bloomquist $4.6 million, the rumored amount of the Giants' offer, is a bad idea. The whole idea of letting Bradon Crawford run free at shortstop, bat be damned, is to get top-notch defense at rock-bottom prices and spend the cash on offense. Not on Willie Bloomquist.

-El Lefty Malo

by Lyle on Nov 13, 2011 2:04 PM PST up reply actions

The only reason these stories

keep popping up, no matter how many times Sabes says otherwise, is because the Yankees and Red Sox need starting pitching. If both teams had top-5 rotations, these stories would never appear. The sense of checkbook entitlement with these teams is pervasive, and the MLB media treats the situation as if the other MLB teams are simply a farm system for New York and Boston.

Responsible for the last great homegrown Giants team.

by Al Rosen on Nov 13, 2011 11:58 AM PST reply actions

It’s because Cain’s in the last year of his contract, and Lincecum is in his second to last year of team control, and neither seems close to signing a long-term extension. That doesn’t preclude extensions, of course, but the longer the team waits, the less likely (and more expensive) that becomes, and the more sense a trade makes.

VAE PVTO DEVS FIO

by Bhaakon on Nov 13, 2011 2:20 PM PST up reply actions

That’s true, but Al’s entirely correct, too. All of those “should the Mariners trade King Felix” stories are always started by the guys who have major source connections with the Yankees front office (Olney and Heyman mostly) and knowing a little bit about how the media works, it doesn’t seem to stretch the imagination at all to think those stories are originating with a Yankees guy speculating out loud to a media source on why they think it would be a win-win for Seattle to trade us Hernandez, or the Giants to trade us Cain or whoever they have their eye on.

Front offices use the media to float trade proposals all the time to see what kind of response the rumors get from the other team and from their own fanbase. That’s the origin of a lot of trade rumors, even crazy ones.

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

by Roger on Nov 14, 2011 11:00 AM PST up reply actions