LOL Matt Cain and Brian Sabean, hell the Giants in general

[Russ M.]

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The Giants may be in worse shape now than any other team in the league in terms of the future...

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Sabean obviously sucks, but it's hard to believe the future is that bleak with Lincecum, Cain, Lowry and Sanchez.

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It is when this is your lineup signed for next year:

C: Benjie Molina
1B: Rich Aurilia
2B: Ray Durham
SS: ? David Eckstein probably?
3B: ? Pedro Feliz again?
LF: ? Freddy Lewis maybe?
CF: Dave Roberts
RF: Randy Winn

PS: Lowry runs real good and is really overrated by most Giants fans.

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Lose every game 1-0 FTW?

[ProfessorBen]

Dodgers > Giants.

That is all.

[Mr biggums]

We'll see in the next couple free agent periods whether they'll actually sign the players they need to.

Everyone knew the Giants lineup would be terrible this year aside from Bonds. I'd like to see the A's sign someone like Barry Zito for big money. He just isn't performing anywhere near he should be.

Fremont A's... have fun.

[Reup Gang]

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I'd like to see the A's sign someone like Barry Zito for big money.

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so because a front office isn't stupid enough to drastically overpay for one mediocre player for a long period of time means they don't care about winning?

well, if that's a "winning" attitude, i'm damn happy my team doesn't do that.

[kyleb]

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I'd like to see the A's sign someone like Barry Zito for big money.

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LOL

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He just isn't performing anywhere near he should be.

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I'm afraid that he is. High walk rates, high home run rates, declining strikeout numbers and lost velocity on his fastball.

Smart people saw it coming.

[RickAstleyFan]

Didn't Sabean have the Giants within six outs of winning the World Series about four years ago?

[RickAstleyFan]

Although to be fair, yeah, the Zito signing was bad.

Somewhere, Mike Hampton is sending Zito a card right now, thanking him for taking some of the pressure off.

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Didn't Sabean have the Giants within six outs of winning the World Series about four years ago?

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Barry Bonds did.

[RickAstleyFan]

So Bonds was responsible for all those signings and such?

Wow.

I have new respect for the roid monster.

[Reup Gang]

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So Bonds was responsible for all those signings and such?

Wow.

I have new respect for the roid monster.

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Sabean mangled the vast majority of Bonds' prime years with old, mediocre players as he made mediocre trades giving up young for more old and mediocre players. How many competent GMs miss the playoffs TWICE (01 and 04) with the greatest player in baseball history having two of the greatest seasons in baseball history?