Padres Pull Off Another One
While Farhan continues to sit on his hands, AJ Preller continues to make bold moves. I personally wasn’t targeting Bogaerts but he’s yet another star who makes a team already better than us, better than us. It’s easy to say “Boy I’m sure glad we aren’t getting saddled with a deal like that” but you know what? How many years you guys got left? How many years are we now stuck behind LA and SD? I’d like to see us be competitive in the NL West at least a few more times before I die.
Right now, LA and SD are so far ahead of us it’s embarrassing. And with the payroll flexibility Farhan has he should be the one feeling most embarrassed…..
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Wow I missed that Bogaerts deal…that is ridiculous stupid money. I think I posited here yday the question that did Tatis wear out his welcome in SD. Would they move him? Would they deal within the division? Would we want him??? I say yes because we lack such star power and we have the money that maybe very few clubs would want to spend money on. Red Sox certainly would certainly be interested…but 11 years and $280 mill??? That is stupid.
I read where their thought was to move Tatis to the OF when he comes back and in adding Bogaerts they are already thinking ahead in case Machado leaves next year when he’s a FA.
they have a plan, a back up plan and probably back up plans for the back up plans. We have Farhan lookie-looing in the Brebbia aisle
True dat.
True dat indeed
I actually don’t think Machado would is a free agent. Soto you may be referencing. But looks like there is still another arb year for him in 2024. Hader Darvish and Snell are all free agents after the season.
Machado has an opt out clause in the 5th year of his 10 year contract which is next year.
Soto has another arb year in 24 and is a FA in 25.
Flav, you hit the nail on the head for me. I turn 68 next month and would love to see SF in the WS a few more times before I hang up my cleats. The Giants have mucho room under the cap and the club is worth billions now, time to move up to the big kid’s table. Get some cornerstone players to make the team competitive now and that can also be built around when/if the farm kids make it to the big city.
Padres with Soto’s expected arb # is going to be $46-$47 mill over the luxury tax if Bogaerts is at his average contract dollars. Maybe they back end more of that. Do they move Soto, Tatis, or others to get the luxury tax line down but starting in ‘24 they will be $50-55 mill under the tax so they could even extend Soto now and lower is expected ‘23 salary. Damn they are in pretty good shape. We have no hope in signing an Ohtani or Soto.
Man, Soto needs to have a hell of a year to even match that $425 mil 13year offer he turned down from the Nats.
I watched the “Summer of soul” concert in Harlem 1969 recently, and the 5th D were in it, doing live version of Aquarius. Great tune, and they were interviewed too, Ms. McCoo and Billy Davis. Davis said he brought Gospel background into the chorus, improvising to get crowd fired up. Btw there was great gospel music in that concert. M y hero Mongo Santamaria too!
Bogaerts seemed weakest of the 4 to me–power had dropped off a lot in hitter friendly yard, and unlikely to even be a SS going forward. SD I guess moves him to 2b and Cronenworth takes 1b to cover for losing Bell and Myers.
Wonder if Z is pivoting toward players where OB/defense are more important than slugging and HRs since he was unable to get Judge. Bart Davis Villar Joc and healthy Haniger should hit some HRs but nothing like “outlier” (well said by Unc and Loo) 2021 was.
Beside injuries that ruined some of SF Giants last season, it also hurt development of minors guys. Luciano had back problems, Wil Wilson missed lot of time at Sac as did Isan Diaz who was hitting well like Villar but got hurt in September when he could have been called up. Matt Boyd had another issue and they dumped him off to Seattle where he only pitched 13 innings.
that’s another thing. Could they ever fucking one time hit on a guy from the minors? Villar? That’s who we’re pinning our hopes on? Back in the day it was Posey, Timmy, Cain, fucking Bumgarner and Pablo and Dirrrrty Sanchez. WHERE ARE THOSE YOUNG GUYS NOW?????
Only year out, hopefully. Schmitt Luciano Harrison, maybe couple more (smiley face goes here).
You look at Sabean’s draft track record before and after Posey, Timmy, Cain, Belt, Pablo, and Bummie and it is pretty mediocre. He caught fire for those 7 years and it built the foundation for 3 rings.
Kyle Harrison looks like the real deal, but the rest are all question marks. Baseball is the hardest game to draft for.
Is 6/$120 mill not enough for Nimmo? Correa’s gonna get 8/$320?
Maybe we go all-in on Rodon.
Makes me sick to my stomach thinking Correa making $40 mill a year. But probably what will take but something tells me we should pass. Ninmo at $120 seems like a steal now.
Loo, how about a hint on pitcher who gave up HRs to 3 Alou brothers?
I only looked up career totals for Matty and Jesus. 31 for Matty, 32 for “Jay.”
Matty died 2011 age 72, Jesus is still alive at age 80, Felipe too age 87.
Phil Neikro?
Schmitt Luciano Harrison…..I’ll believe it when I see it.
Harrison only one I think is maybe a lock but only maybe. But no hitter since Panda, Belt and Crawford of any note after Posey.
They are going to be outbid by the Dodgers for Correa and reject or be rejected by Swanson. We might get Nimmo, Senga, and the other Rogers twin. I hope I’m wrong about Correa and right about the other 3.
Who knows how much truth there is to this, but Rosenthal recently said that the Dodgers “are not pursuing shortstop Carlos Correa in part out of concern that a sizable portion of their fan base would not welcome the move” given Correa’s connection to the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal.
Phil Niekro is pretty good guess Unc. Gave up 40 HRs in 1970 and began career 1964 with Braves in game vs. Giants (while Alou bros were all still playing) with ATL. Btw, Jesus (with Hou) hit 1 in 1970, and only 18 in 6 years with Giants. Niekro gave up 482 HRs in long career–would that be most ever?
Hint: This guy gave up more homers than Niekro!
Gotta be Roberts.
Ha I did look that stat up. Jamie Moyer is leader with 522.
One other option beside Roberts who pitched in same era, James.
Roberts was always cited for his prodigious bombs allowed total back in the day, when Catfish Hunter and Jenkins were pitching for teams that were better than the Giants. Roberts is just the reflexive, go to exemplar.
Jenkins it is, James…
Found box score for Niekro debut April 15 1964 at Stick for Milwaukee Braves and it’s hilarious.
Giants won 10-8, scoring all 10 runs in 3rd inning that featured 3 run HR from Mays, 5 other hits 5 walks 2 wild pitches. All runs scored after 2 were out and bases empty, Niekro getting last one vs. only batter he faced.
Top of Braves lineup: Felipe, Lee Maye, Aaron Mathews joe Torre.
Giants had Mac in LF/Cepeda at 1b, and Mac replaced Cepeda late game at 1b.
Jack Sanford had 3 run double in 3rd and went 7 before being replaced by Bob Shaw who got the save. Shaw of course is guy who taught Perry the spitter.
Oh and the 10-8 game lasted 2:35.
Yankees aren’t done yet either. Dollars to donuts, fanbase will be pissed if that’s all they do. Consequently, they are our competitors for players. They will definitely be after Rodon and Nimmo. Second tier is the already mentioned Senga, possibly Robertson, and trading for Reynolds. We should do everything possible to trade for Reynolds in my opinion, e.g., switch hitter, good outfielder, and low salary ($6 million and change).
Yeah, a chance to do a kind of make-good on that original bad trade. Reynolds would be a nice add.
No Columbo episode last night, but I did watch an episode of Perry Mason.
Perry Mason was a big factor in my development as a reader. When I was a kid, someone gave our family a bunch of the Perry Mason paperbacks by Earl Stanley Gardner. I read through them, and also watched the Perry Mason show which was being shown after school on syndicated reruns.
I could really sense my reading ability getting stronger. The books originally caught my interest because of their lurid covers, although the books themselves were never as lurid as the covers suggested.
Who could resist titles such as these?:
The Case of the Fugitive Nurse
The Case of the Runaway Corpse
The Case of the Restless Redhead
The Case of the Glamorous Ghost
The Case of the Sunbathers Diary
ESG was contemporary and admirer of Dashiell Hammett, and both wrote hard boiled stuff for Black Mask Magazine.
Sign somebody already, goddamnit!!
Nimmo back to Mets 8/162…
Loo, unfortunately the ball players seem to be ok with that shithole city you live in.
Even though these guys live in the wealthy suburbs, the commute to the ballpark alone is agony.
They can’t buy their way out of traffic…
SF’s pursuit of Judge was obviously well publicized, but haven’t heard much specifically about the team’s interest in the other FAs. Reports have said stuff like “Giants could pursue Nimmo, etc.”, but other than Judge, I haven’t heard of any other offers made to anyone. Did they even talk to Bell (Bell went so quietly and for such a small contract compared to these others) or Turner, or even Nimmo, who’s now also off the table? I’m guessing they will make an offer to Correa, but for a team that was supposedly all in on this FA class, not a lot of noise.
Just read an article re Judge visit. It was secrete meeting all set up. SF team had Judge going in back way to avoid publicity. Judge at last minute said he wanted to walk in the lobby. Pictures, social media. No more secrete. Did SF get played?
Go get Rodon damn it!
at this point I wouldn’t over pay for Correa. He’s not a difference maker like Judge and he wants 300 large. Maybe we zig back to heavy pitching and hope it nutralizes the big bats in the division.
6/$300 mill for Rodon?
Seriously. These owners are gonna break the bank. A 40 year old guy gets $43 mill?
Rodon is fucking 29.
I thought 6/120 mill was ridick for Nimmo. 8/164 is lunacy.
Correa is gonna get 8/$300.
These contracts are indeed ridiculous. Always against over-paying (especially in terms of years). I’ve respected Z’s approach of no super long contracts, but obviously to keep up, they gotta pay to play, so not sure that’s going to work going forward, unless “the kids” really do start coming up and sticking. Hell, it’s not our money, and the team certainly has it, so I don’t care so much about over-paying anymore. But if not spending on FAs now but rather waiting for the minor leaguers is the plan, then the next year or two could still be spent in Mediocreville….
Zito’s nightmare contract is laughable now…
The Raiders, hahaha.
The Raiders just suck ass as usual.
Mayfield’s in town for like 40 hours, doesn’t know the players, doesn’t know the playbook, but yeah can take the Rams 98 yards for the winning drive, helped of course by the Raiders being total Dumbshits during that drive with penalties, holding during a pick, Tillery knocking the ball out of the refs hand wtf?? Glad they loss and eliminated I believe from playoffs..
Z really whiffed on relative bargain Josh Bell…
Guardians are sneaky cool team, and haven’t spent lot of $$ to get there. And as Flav said 6:43, more about pitching.
Raiders have lost FOUR games up 13+. Crazy
McDaniels is a loon. I’ve seen him throw deep on 3rd and 1 about 12 times this year. I think he made 1. He’d be better off running a fake punt than that.
The NFL in its wisdumb calls knocking the ball out of someone’s hand a 15 yard penalty. Yeah it was dumb but 3rd and 16 from the 20 is a bit worse that 1st and 10 from the 41. You change the fucking game over a ticky tacky call. Brilliant.
Bart Starr and the Lombardi Packers loved to throw deep on 3rd & 1…
But they knew when….
If Dan Orlovsky’s opinion means anything the 49ers QB next season could be Tom Brady…
Oh, bite your tongue, good sir, Flappers will flippin’ freak out (not me, mind you…)
Ha good one. I see Bengals QB Joe burrow being called “Joe Cool”. Um as Aretha said to Blues Brothers, “Don’t you blaspheme in here.”
i like Dan but this is nonsense. Brady sucks now and he’s going to be like 87 years old next year. Pass. It’ll be Trey with Jimmy backing him up again unless Jimmy has played himself into a multi year deal somewhere else.
2 lead stories on MLBTR: how much more over lux tax can Mets spend, and what about teams that missed out on top end of CF market, which would include SF and LA? Wonder if Giants could pry Mark Canha away from Mets to save them $13 mil, high OB guy who is versatile (LF and 1b option) but only played few games in CF, or if A’s would trade Laureano. Otherwise you’ve got the same old/same old platoon of Yaz and Slater alongside corners. hmmnn
I was wondering about AZ, who have a glut in CF. They also would like to dump the last 2 years of Bum’s contract ($22.9 and $12.9). Would Jake McCarthy or Daulton Varsho be worth taking Bum back and seeing if Bailey could work some magic with him?
I know Loo has mentioned Bum ending his career in SF and I’ve always wondered if he could be a stud in relief.
I like it!
Sure, question would be what AZ wants in return for helping Giants. My guess would be top prospect or two, not something Giants have lot of or could afford to give up. My guess is guys you listed would be untouchable, and the available OF would be Thomas, the one who hasn’t hit much.
Varsho hit 27 HRs last year and McCarthy had .769 OPS. Doubt these guys go anywhere let alone to Division rival.
Thomas on other hand had slash line of .231/.275/.344 for .619 OPS with awful OB. Doesn’t sound like Z type of guy. 2 others, Luplow and Pavin Smith I don’t think are CFs and both had OPS in .600s.
Yeah Wille, not sure AZ would trade in the Division but maybe to dump Bum’s contract they would. The Snakes want to trade one of their lefties for some RH bats so maybe we could offer JD Davis and throw in Ramos plus with SF taking on Bum’s contract, they might think about it.
yeah Senor Locojuan, that could work and dumping off Bum saves them quite a bit. MLBTR also said they might be in on FA Longoria for part time duty at 3b. Dunno what’s up with Giants plans for Ramos, who is still on 40 man, right?
I hadn’t heard about AZ kicking the tires on Longo, but it makes sense, Rojas isn’t going to give them a lot of pop at 3B and that’s why I threw in Davis.
Yep, Ramos is still on the 40 man as far as I know.
Jimmy might get a multi year deal but he’s proving to be pretty damn injury-prone. He may very well be the guy we cant miss because he won’t go away.
Brady? Riiiiiiiight. He looked absolutely horrible in Monday Night and most of the season. The only reason they won is due to the Saints ineptitude. Just like the Raiders last night.
I think if Brady goes anywhere it would be back to NE for another year to close his career out.
Anyway why would we want him when we got Purdy.
Brady would be the backup to Jones. I really don’t think Brady wants to sit.
In a way I am kinda glad we didn’t go all out on a big contract. Makes me think our Minor league system is actually farther along than we might think. Youth is the way to go and if we still do go out and pay the big bucks then I hope it’s for pitching.
You make sense, particularly your second sentence. For all the money San Diego has spent, what has it gotten them? Zilch. Also, the Giants have a better record versus them, including a West title, since Z came on board in 2019, shopping primarily in the Brebbia aisle. lqtm.
Still hoping for a big acquisition, but whatever happens, I am still in Z’s corner.
Well, for one, SD won two playoff series last year, beating Mets and Dogs, no small accomplishment. Which would be 2 more playoff series wins than Z has with Giants, despite winning Division title 2021.
SF went 6-13 vs. Pads last year, which was better than their 4-15 record vs. LA.
also, SD is set up to be very competitive this year. As it stands, we are not.
The Giants fearless owner Johnson once again, violating his promise of several years ago, gives money to extreme right and conspiracy nutjob candidate for US Congress.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/sf-giants-owner-donates-to-john-gibbs-17642081.php
My guess is he does it for tax purposes.
Gotta admit, Andie B. in her sundresses at Gulfstream Park worth price of cable.
Count Chocula should have hired Angel Villanova’s lawyer!
Damm I guess Farhan can cross off 40 year old Eugenio Velez off his dumpster diving pickups…
Wasn’t Kokonuts a big Eugenio follower?
Maybe, there definitely were some fans here on the Flap. I thought Pawlie’s guy was Emmanual Burriss, not sure…
Yeah I think your right P/A..
Kokonuts mentioned i believe seeing his guy Emmanuel Burris play minor league ball for Syracuse? in AAA international league back in 2017?
You’re right – Burriss.
Good job…
Tom, per your 11:21am about Johnson: I don’t remember, did he pledge to not donate like that anymore? Reading that article, he sure chooses true nut jobs to support. If he’s doing it for tax purposes, you’d think he’d spread it around a bit. That guy John Gibbs is whacked, and yet he got something like 41% of people’s votes in a losing effort (thank goodness)… I guess as an individual citizen, he can give to whoever or whatever he wants, but he generally seems way out of step with SF as a team and a city.
Tax has nothing to do with it. Political contributions are not deductible, and even if, some of the amounts are subatomic compared to his wealth. He’s clearly in on the fascist, wackjob principles being espoused. To have this guy as the major shareholder of the Giants is a complete embarrassment to the franchise, IMO, especially in a city that considers itself a progressive bastion. His prior excuse of “I didn’t know” didn’t hold water then, and certainly not now after many iterations. At least Stoneham could blame his moves on being a drunk…
Eugenio’s the guy who finished his career like 0 for 47…
I think Jason Kidd missed his final 20 something shots in the NBA…
One of the saddest “It’s over, dude” examples was watching Pat the Bat in the 2010 WS. Not sure of the final numbers, but it seemed he struck out nearly every time up. One of his last at bats, a K, he walked away shaking his head and mouthing “wow”… as in, wow, I think it’s over, dude….
yeah with LA right? Twin was mad about that, I think Mattingly was managing them then and wouldn’t play him at end of season.
looked it up, 2011 he was 0-37 for LA.
Another guy from San Pedro de Macoris DR.
My own baseball “career” ended with a strikeout in a softball league playing in the Presidio. I’d lived and breathed baseball since before I could even walk, excelled in Little League, was starting 2nd bagger for high school freshman and JV teams (gave that up once I hit junior year, too cool for school), and played a lot of great fast-pitch softball in Boston leagues over the years. Summer of ’02, I was 46, still playing in leagues in SF, but I had suddenly become that one old guy who always joins a team full of 20 somethings. First game with a new team, I actually struck out. In softball. Of course, it was 2 strikes, not 3, but still. I walked away and never went back. So tragically embarrassing I had to move to Asia……
2 strikes?
Yeah, John, there was one league that had 2 strikes and yer out and 3 balls for a walk, just to speed things up. Also played in one co-ed league where the men had to bat their opposite hand (I actually got pretty good hitting left-handed). Hated the 2 strikes thing, though…
We used to play 2 swings with no ump…
No wonder I never played fast-pitch.
Ah, the 2 strike thing was a high arc slow pitch league. Not my favorite kind of baseball. I LOVED playing fast-pitch softball, it was like real baseball with bunting, stealing, and of course fast pitches…
Anyone that got to 2 strikes in slo-pitch should be banned.
Which is why I got exiled to Asia…. 🙂
That high arc shit is *way* harder to hit than 70 mph from 45 feet.
Agree, that was the only time I’d ever struck out. There’s a method to it, kind of sitting back on your heels and swinging uppercut at it, but I took my fast-pitch swing to it and the results were predictable…
In ’09, I saw the Giants at Philly, Timmy vs. Pedro Martinez. Velez hit a leadoff HR, but that was it for the offense and the Giants lost 2-1.
Wow. I guess Krueg’s doesn’t want to see the inside of the Giants clubhouse again.
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I can’t even imagine Farhan’s FA pitch. “Hey, come play for our whack job, insecure, politically charged manager, get shit on by seagulls and together we will finish in 4th place ahead of only the Rockies”. Where do I sign?
Guy is loony tunes. Didn’t bother Gausman, who loved it here, nor Rodon who excelled without benefit of having Posey around and threw to Bart and Wynns. Surprised he has such an issue with Kapler, same guy whose team did pretty well a year ago. Hard for me to believe Giants won 107 in spite of manager.
Nothing wrong with Haniger either, who at least isn’t getting stupid money. Unfortunate this offseason there aren’t as many decent OFs available as there are SS.
Maybe the Zman is in on these costly FAs, and none want to come to SF for whatever reason(s). Platooning and Kappler may not be great marketing attractions…
I keep thinking about Nimmo.
The money is stupid of course, but more amazing is an EIGHT year deal for a guy who in the last 4 years has only played > 98 games once. He came up in 2016 for 32 games, so for the last starting in 17 he has played 6 seasons and is 29 years old now. Total all in of 63 homers. .270 ish hitter. Only 1/6 years ( this year) did he have 500AB’s. No star power, just an above average player. 8 years???
Nimmo has moderate power and no speed and he’s injury prone. 8 years for 160 or whatever it was might be the dumbest contract i’ve ever seen given to a baseball player in my life.
It’s definitely up there.
Mets owner seems to have more money than he knows what to do with and he’s pressured himself publicly into spending it.
Lindor’s contract is also horrific…
And the Mets might be the 3rd-best team in the division this season.
The two OFers SF wanted got huge, extremely attractive deals from the 2022 playoff teams they’ve been with their entire careers. People usually don’t make big changes if they’re happy with their circumstances.
From what I understand the clubs are offering longer term FA deals to lower the AAV, which iirc is how lux taxes are calculated. Front end of years is what matters most I guess for production and success of club.
Hey Wille, did you see/hear about Rutgers getting screwed out of a win by the refs at Ohio St. the other night? And then the Big 10 admitted yesterday that the refs fucked up. Unbelievable.
Hey Mac, the Pacheco kid from Rutgers is really looking good lately in KC.
He’s nailed first round bust CEH to the bench…
Nice. For a football program that’s not very good, Rutgers churns out a surprisingly decent number of NFL players.
yeah that sucked.
When it comes to Rutgers sports, I can’t get past Brooklyn legend Phil Sellers…
If Larry Krueger keeps posting inflammatory things his mom might kick him out of her basement.
He just ignores 2021, team Z/H put together and Kapler ran. giants pitching gave up fewest bombs and walks in NL and had 2nd best ERA. Disco Gausman Webb, fine season from McGee and Rogers, plus Doval. Had to be superior coaching with that group to hold off Dogs.
Offense led league in HR top 3 BA OB slugging and OPS. Holdovers Longo Belt Posey Crawford, plus guys he picked up like Flores Yaz Ruf Wade Jr. and deadline trade he made for Bryant.
You can’t tell me these guys didn’t want to play for Kap.
It would have been better for their reputations if the 21 team had gone 92-70. There would probably be far fewer unreasoned dismissals.
The somewhat injury-depleted Kings defeated the somewhat injury-depleted Cavaliers last night.
The Kings arrive in NYC to play the Knicks. It’s the kind of game the Kings need to win on their schedule in order to make the playoffs. Playoffs?! Cue up the Jim Mora clip.
The Warriors play the Celtics tonight on a national broadcast game on ABC.
No Wiggins again tonight, so interesting how Kerr will defend Brown and Tatum. wonder if Kuminga gets look there, he’s been playing pretty well lately and what DeVincenzo can do.
The Lamb story is awful though. The school he played for, small school power Vermont, ignored what happened to alleged victim so he’s off the hook scot free. Not buying it.
The way the NBA game is played now, a lot of point guards are the leading scorers on their teams. For younger fans, it’s probably just fine with them. But all the teams play basically the same style, and it’s not great when there’s so much sameness to the game. An older geezer like me misses the older times when teams had more individualism to their style of play.
All the NBA teams are going to retire the #6 in honor of Bill Russell. That’s a great move by the league.
Ironically, what would Russell’s role be if he was born much later and was a player in today’s NBA? It would be a much reduced role, I think.
Unfortunately, too late for Bill to appreciate it.
I wonder what criteria they use.
Others that may be deserving if this becomes a thing:
Babe Ruth?
Wayne Gretzky?
Wilt? Kareem?
Troy Taylor named Head Football Coach at Stanford…
Former coach at Sac St with an offensive reputation something Stanford could sure use.
Team just lost their playoff round game 66-63 yes that score is right! Better recruit some Defense as well..
I saw that score and figured it was multiple OTs — but no! That all was in 4 quarters. Sac had 49 1st downs, the teams combined for over 1,300 yards, what a wild one.
“Tax has nothing to do with it. Political contributions are not deductible, and even if, some of the amounts are subatomic compared to his wealth.”
I think the point being made was that politicians like that are far more likely to vote for huge tax cuts for billionaires, which proved true during the Trump administration, much to the benefit of people like Johnson. To Johnson, that has been campaign money very well spent over the years.
“He’s clearly in on the fascist, wackjob principles being espoused.”
That can be true, also. Or he just doesn’t care, as long as he’s getting huge tax breaks. To me, that’s just as despicable. He probably has grandkids and great grandkids; doesn’t he care about what kind of future they’ll be living in?
But, hey, it’s a no-apology type of world these days. Reese’s Cups’ ad says “Not sorry.” Meaning: “We know our product is addictive junkfood, but we’re not going to apologize for that.”
Uh, OK….interesting campaign strategy. And probably an effective strategy. Consumers are probably all “I like a company that just tells it like it is.”
The amused, self-aware American consumer. It’s almost enough to make you as cynical as the guy who owns the Giants!
I have to admit I had a Burger King “Texas Burger” recently. I feel kind of guilty about it. It was very tasty, but I felt a little dirty after eating it.
It’s kind of interesting that the giant baseball contract has made a comeback. Brian Kenny, from the MLB Network, devoted an entire chapter of his book to why those giant contracts have been a mistake for teams for the vast majority of the history of giant contracts.
What does it say about this off-season? A bit of a backlash against analytics? Teams tried going heavy in analytics for a number of years, and it hasn’t produced the results desired? Or maybe it doesn’t mean anything, and it’s just a freak off-season.
Or that the sport is more awash in money than we’ve realized? We talk a lot about the problems of the sport, but maybe it’s raking in a lot more cash than we realize.
The Warriors have a #0 and a #00. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that on a team before.
During ad breaks in the Dubs game, I found two keepers in tonight’s tv schedule. SNL looks good. And, 1/2 hour before that, a rerun station is showing the Columbo episode featuring Gretchen Corbett. Old timers will remember her as Jim Rockford’s feisty, lovely young lawyer. Her turn, answering the door nearly nude and then walking around the house casually answering the befuddled detective’s dogged questions, is rightly considered one of the best scenes in the Columbo canon. Hope it plays out in the first 1/2 hour.
Senga to Mets. Damn, my wish list sure is dwindling. Maybe I’ll become a Mets fan. Ha.
I wonder if the Giants are in on Syndergaard.
Hope so…
Heyman twitted #SF Giants were in on Senga but finished 2nd the the Mets. Can this idiot ever be believed again?
Re finishing 2nd? Maybe the Giants have to start overpaying in the way the Rockies Pirates Marlins might to lure an elite FA. We finish 2nd a lot. Maybe Farhan has a weird vibe the players don’t like?
Loo we likely are. Will finish 2nd in the bidding to someone!
“Maybe Farhan has a weird vibe the players don’t like?” Interesting question, Dude. Is Z the team’s chief negotiator with FAs and their agents? Seem to remember in the Sabean years that Sabes did some of it, Bobby Evans did some, depended on the FA and agent. I’d ask the Flap if the Giants’ GM is involved, but I don’t even remember his name and haven’t heard one thing about him or from him since he *joined* the team. He’s the 2nd GM under Z that I wouldn’t even know him if I bumped into him. Maybe ya’ll have heard more from him than I’ve seen, but I find it extremely weird, the GM thing, under Z…. Either something isn’t working with these negotiations, or else Z isn’t all that focused on it and is indeed just gonna wait for his draftees to appear by the Bay in the next year or two. Or maybe it is the whole Morocco Mole thing…….. (side: great to see Morocco doing well in the World Cup).
Actually in above comment, I meant Ned Colletti, not Bobby Evans. I don’t remember Booby Evans doing much…
Farhan didn’t seem to have issues in Oakland or LA so I don’t think that’s it.
It’s the park dimensions and the weather.