Predictable Comments from Sabean
Without quoting him exactly, he basically said “We’re evaluating everything, we aren’t trading any of our blue chips (see: Bumgarner) and we’ve got the talent to win with who we have”….Same stuff we always here from him.
I agree with him on one thing there: The arms we have in the BP are better than the “Walker/Trashner” days. I just don’t think we can afford to lose games finding out who the most passable set up guy is going to be. It’s quite possible that NONE of them, at this point in their careers, are ready for the job and Bochy is just going to have to go by *feel* for who he sends out to do the 8th inning job. Of course, Bochy is loath to that type of approach. Somebody mentioned “Thornton”, that’s not a bad choice. JJ Putz seems to have put his steroid and injury problems behind him. He could work. Whatever, the 8th inning guy is who we go get first and foremost. If I’m Sabean I stop worrying about a middle of the order bat. He’s already found that in Pat Burrell.
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Trading vs. signing are two different animals. Let’s let the second half play out before we cannonize Saint Sabes…
You’re going to need to dig him up first, Snarkkles. I think you’re the guy who needs to settle down. Sabean’s deals are looking pretty good right now… trade or signing.
My point of my last post was that he couldn’t eve. IDENTIFY a fucking good bat. He was always able to look at the back of their baseball card and sign them off that. But that what shitty gms do. Studs find the guys who are GOING to do sonething, not the guys who have DONE something
But as I said, any bat that would help would cost more than that help would be worth. They’re fine for now.
Hey, the team’s in contention. Sabes has made some good moves that are working so far. Burrelll is turning out way better than anybody expected, that was an absolute shot in the dark that has turned golden so far. I’m hoping they all work out so the team can freekin finally get back to the playoffs. But, I’m not willing at less than 1/2 the season done to kiss Sabes butt like some of you. If he gets us into the Division Series, I’ll get the smooch ready, but not before….
Good for you Snarkk. It’s hypocritical buillshit but that keeps you consistent…
And Flavor: you lost me. Are you now not willing to give credit for Huff, Uribe, Torres, Burrell? Is this the “lucky” card that Snarkk is playing? ” that was an absolute shot in the dark that has turned golden so far.”
hell no, I do NOT share Snarkk’s position of “shot in the dark”. You don’t get lucky with four bargain basement guys in the same year. He hit four home runs with them, no one else in baseball did that with 4 bargain basement hitters (though you could debate the validity of “home run” status with Burrell since he just got here). SHit, throw Franchez in there too. I NEVER would have guessed that any of these guys would be putting up these numbers. We’re 6th in the fucking NL in OPS and that doesn’t take into consideration no Posey/Franchez/Burrell for a huge part of the season. Even with that we are ahead of LA, Colorado and SD. And we’ve got better pitching than all three of them combined. This is our team. I like our chances…..
Oracle, if you think Sabes had Burrell penned in as taking over for Rohand and doing this well so far, you’re delusional. It was as much a shot in the dark as it would have been had Sabes given Byrnes a tryout in Spring (which your playing up as some great decision NOT to do is laughably, repeatedly overblown). G’night Gyroheads…
bringing Pat back to the NL makes sense. If you think he didn’t jibe with that dukey shit in the AL or you believe he just wanted to come home, fuck it, either of those are NOT shots in the dark. And again, you don’t take four shots in the dark and hit all four. I’d throw Franchez in there too, the national crew mocked that signing. 5 shots in the dark? In the same year? Brian Cashman would jizz on himself if ever had to do that. Of course, he doesn’t have to even try. But still…….
You’re digging deep when you’re trying to say that Burrell has exceeded Sabean’s expectations and using it against Sabean. Pathetic, pal.
That was for Snarkkles, BTW. Really, is that the worst EVER?
” Sabean sucks! He signed Burrell!!!”
“But Burrell is doing GREAT!”
“Exactly! He *couldn’t* have known he would! Idiot…”
Justin Upton FLIES. that guy has got serious wheels.
Thank God I sat A.J. Burnett tonight on my fantasy league team . . . His line after 4 innings – 4 SO 15.75 ERA 2.75 WHIP . . . sheesh.
Gyroheads? Greek lamb pita addicts?
“It’s Exec of the year stuff.”
Throw in Bautista, Casilla and Mota who have also been pretty good pickups for the scratch.
Sixty years ago today, one Horace Stoneham cut a pair of checks for two contracts. The larger of the payouts, $10,000 (about $150 grand in today’s money) and the other for $4,000. The ten went to a gentleman from Memphis, a funeral director name of Davis who owned the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues. Check #2 was, on June 21, 1950, the largest signing bonus given to date to an African American baseball player. It went to a young man who had been playing in the Negro Leagues for all of two years and had just celebrated his 19th birthday about a month previously. Name of the player: Willie Howard Mays Jr.
Yahoo Sports baseball has an excellent story by a fellow name of Klima on all the interesting details behind the signing by the New York Giants of the greatest, most complete 5-tool player ever to wear spikes. Haven’t checked out the tinyurl site mentioned by WSW, but is suspect it leads to the same story. Great Read.
Followed by the signings of Moe Howard Mays, Curly Howard Mays and Shemp Howard Mays.
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Sorry, stix, couldn’t resist.Honestly, that’s great trivia. So May’s signing, in today’s money, came to about $60K. On the surface, that seems kind of like a lot but considering a mid-level bank officer makes about $60K *in* today’s money, those ballplayers of yore… totally middle class at best. Probably especially the African Americans. My how times have changed for all concerned.