Buying out Zito’s Contract….
Watching all these NBA players agree to buy outs got me to start fantasizing again about the Giants buying out Zito’s contract. He’s owed 57.5 mil through 2013 plus the 7 mil buy out option in 2014. Can someone explain to me why the Giants can’t buyout Zito’s contract? If the NBA players union has no problem with it why would the baseball players union take a negative stance on it? I did some light googling on this and came up with almost nothing on whether or not a baseball team can buy out a player’s contract.
What would a buy out even cost? Would Zito take 57.5 million? How many people walk away from several million dollars but Zito HAS to be able to put a price tag on removing himself from an environment where he is constantly reminded of failing. Does he REALLY want to sit around here through 2013 having people rag on him 24/7?
A change of scenery might actually do this guy a modicum of good. Even if he continues to smoke massive pole, it couldn’t feel as bad in the new city as it does here. It just couldn’t, right?
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You see some wacky things sometimes, but I think I just saw someone compare Whiteside to Carlton Fisk.
Boch needs to get Sing back out here from Minneapolis. Sing has experience searching for “the Rat”. Never heard though, if he found that rodent — he may have stopped looking if the crumbs led towards the general area of Jed’s office door. Dunno, but could be some parallels here…
Just buy the guy out. He’s a dud.
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