The offseason has recently renounced its slow spiraling delve into the bottomless recesses of the baseball abyss and has instead exchanged it for a nice, quick swan dive off a terrible metaphorical ledge. My once firm optimism has been quickly replaced by a growing dread, facilitated by the names Molina and Feliz. While the easy course of action would be… Read more →
There has already been a lot of fallout at the simple mentioning of Los Gigantes signing veterans Roberts and Aurilia. In rebuttal to the popular opinion I claim that these signees mark the shift in organizational philosophy that Giants GM Brian Sabean pledged at the end of the summer. Now you may ask, “How can the signing of 2 aging… Read more →
The AFL is drawing to a close and so, though it is not as timely as it would have been a few weeks ago I have decided to write the first in what I hope to be many posts of my delusional and ever increasing man-love for one, Kevin Frandsen. Totally Frandsonian: Frandsen has been nominated by his Scottsdale manager… Read more →
So, I was sitting in my corner, mumbling something semi incoherant about Soriano and Home/Away splits when a rather radical idea crossed my mind about the Giants and their new found and much heralded off season cache of doh-re-me, aka moolah. HOW ABOUT NOT SPENDING IT! This year is set to be a free agent nightmare as exemplified by Mark… Read more →
In baseball much like in life, timing is everything. If we, and by we I mean the Giants, had had the financial flexibility that we have this year (somewhere in the realm of 45+ mil) three years ago when Bad Vlad was on the market I might have fulfilled my illustrious dream of passing out on a pint of zima,… Read more →