While I agree that Rowand is a strange signing, any signing that removes Cain and Lincy from the table is a good one and fully worth 60M dollars. The only question is if Sabean can figure out how to move Roberts, Davis or Lewis for anything of value. Out of the 3 I’d like to keep Davis, as he’s likely to be good off the bench, a good defensive replacement and not a bad rest replacement. However, I don’t see Roberts being traded for anything other than a partial salary dump, and Lewis might bring back a mediocre AA prospect, at his age.

Regardless, I agree 100% that Bonds should be our LF this year. Rowand and Bonds in the same lineup, with a 3B/1B combo that isn’t near to the worst in the league actually turns this team into an underdog for playoffs, rather than a dead cat.

Uhm. Excuse the hell out of me Mr. Potato Head…but what the fuck would you know about the Giants clubhouse? You’ve been here for one season surrounded by a bunch of ex-Padre washouts and retirees during that time, and you’re traipsing out crippled cliches about “returning to a Warrior mentality’ in the Giants clubhouse because your fuckwidget idiotic boss just gave 60 million dollars to some over-rated middle of the pack outfielder on a team that already has 15 other outfielders that can’t hit worth a shit compared to the one they just ran out of town?

This franchise is beyond hopeless. Brian Sabaen has surpassed former 49er General Manager Joe Thomas for being the most arrogant AND the most ignorant General Manager in San Francisco Sports franchise history. The situation is not even laughable anymore. Given a choice between free box seats at PacBell and attending a seminar on multi-level marketing, the true path to God and the Hereafter, I would choose the seminar because it would involve a hell of a lot less fraud.

More savvy veterans. More grittiness. Another 30 something established fair to middling mercenary with a way too long term contract. Putrid collection of welfare recipients in tight pants. These guys are more fucking rancid than the Tampa Rays dipped in whale shit. The more I think about it, the more I think the fans should sue Magowan, Baer and Sabaen for false advertising, copyright infringement, and misappropriation of public funds for attempting to pawn off this collection of borderline paraplegics as a Major League Baseball Team. As a matter of fact, instead of wasting their fucking time and my taxpayer money trying to get a chickenshit binge and purge conviction on Barry Bonds, The Federal Attornies could get themselves some hella good publicity by indicting the fucking crooked and incompetent twats in the Giants Front Office. PacBell Park should be surrounded in yellow tape as a motherfucking crime-scene. A conviction would be difficult simply because the fucking rockpiles that the assholes in the front office use for brains, don’t leave trace evidence.

Watching this team next year, should be about as constructive as going to the zoo and watching a monkey fuck a football. It will be more rewarding to beat the bushes with a burlap bag at midnight hunting snipe, then it would to expect anything positive to come from this collection of bland, going-through-the-motions suckbag losers.

A god damned 1st year little league coach has more sense than to build a roster with nothing but outfielders, none of which have any power. This is the stupidest roster I have ever seen at any level, anywhere. How fucking stupid. Like Sabean could even think about trading any of them from anywhere remotely resembling a position of strength

why am i not excited about this signing

in fact, im pretty ticked about it

FIRE SABEAN

On the other hand, I think Rowand is a good piece of the puzzle. He is by no means a team savior, but in three years from now it’s possible we’ll have turned things around and he could be a part of that. I guess my point is, I’m happy that at least Sabean has stopped making panic moves — whether or not you like Rowand this one is defendable.

However, there was a silver lining in the best quote of that article:

“”With this move, we will no longer listen to any offers for Cain and Lincecum,” Sabean said. “We know the value of both individuals believe me, maybe more so now that we’ve gone through this exercise. They might be the hottest two names in baseball.”"

THANK YOU BASEBALL GODS! I no longer have to wake up every day worried about no Lincecum in 2008! Aaron Rowand, I now think you were the best signing of 2007, if you made Sabean not trade Cain and Lincey.

The Angels sign Hunter…and plan to move last year’s over-priced FA signing (Mathews Jr.) to LF.

The Dodgers sign Andrew Jones…and plan to move last year’s over-priced FA signing (Pierre) to LF.

What is with the GMs from the great state of California?? Does living on the West Coast make you stupid, or something?

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7556916

Sabean just signed Aaron Rowand to a 5-year $60 million deal. He just turned 30, came off his best season, and I feel is beginning the prime of his career (30-35). He’s also a gritty guy that you’d like to have in your club house. Honestly, given the contracts that other centerfielders like Juan Pierre have received in recent years (and what Andruw Jones just nabbed), I’d call this a great signing.