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Maybe Sabean knows something about Alderson that nobody else does, but I would have thought he could have done much better than Sanchez. Martinez, Willingham, Dunn all come to mind.

but wow

This is the last game of a three game interleague series between the NL West and the International League West. The format was introduced by Future Commissioner In Waiting, Leisure Suit Larry Baer and trusted valet, Brian Boitano Sabean. The Indianapolis nine is hoping to avoid a sweep by the Giants, a perennial power in winter ball, where their position players not named Sandoval play in the National Beep Baseball Association

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, it is scoreless after seven innings and in spite of Cain’s superb pitching performance the lords and ladies herded into the snob seats, are resembling more and more cud-chewing cows, munching on regurgitated garlic hay. As the camera pans the powdered wig set, it seems to confirm the thought that have in fact, been rendered semi-comatose by the methane gases emanating from the position player section of the dugout. Motionless, they wait in stupefying anticipation of the next inning-ending double play.

Seriously though. The Pirates have gutted a previously listless, talentless team, by offing just about every single fungible part of their lineup. The fact that two of the guys who were touted to be mainstays in their rotation (Ian Snell and Tom Gorzelanny) were in the minors until Snell got sent packing to Seattle earlier today, ought to tell you this team is the biggest laughingstock in MLB next to the Nationals and Padres. And the Giants have scored a grand total of 12 runs in 55 innings across 5 plus games. Thats less than 2 runs per 9 innings if you’re keeping score at home.

And what pray tell, is the solution? In view that Shierholtz is on the DL, Rowand should be, and Barry Zito can hit righthanders better than Randy Winn? Why of course! Trade for Freddy Sanchez. Who is little better than Juan Uribe, costs as much as Renteria almost, and whose health and resultant performance is going to hell in a handbasket faster than goose shit through a teflon funnel since 2006! Bad knees. Eye Injuries. Bad back and a slash line that is not much better than Jose Uribes:

Uribe: BA .286/ 4HR/21RBI/.315OBP/.433SLG/748OPS
Sanchez BA .296/6HR/34RBI/.334OBP/.442SLG/776OPS

And Sanchez had almost 50% more Plate Appearances to accumulate his counting numbers. And he is injured to the point the reported trade is conditional on a physical exam. This guy is more of a candidate for the DL than an integral piece of a championship run. This guy is Rich Aurilia waiting to happen. And it his knees that are causing him problems ever since he moved to second base. Sorry. I saw the guy last year and the year before, and Robinson Cano, nor even Orlando Hudson he is not. No hit, no field and just marginally better than Juan Uribe, who doesn’t even make the roster on a genuine playoff team.

The ability of Baer, Sabean and the sycophantic media and bloggers to continue to bamboozle enough people to put up with this shit continues to amaze. How fortunate the Giants are to be in the same market as the Raiders, Warriors, A’s and Forty Niners.

As Pearl Bailey broke out into stunned laughter after the 69 Mets took down the Orioles in the World Series:

“Amazing! simply amazing!”

His weak excuse for not looking at him in free agency was that he was a poor defender; they just traded for Garko to replace Travis Ishikawa, so that excuse seems even less plausible than it did before. I honestly think there’s a reasonable chance Brian Sabean didn’t know who Adam Dunn was before people started yelling at him for letting him slip away. The guy doesn’t have a computer, after all.

the team’s offense if horrible only partially because of the players.

it is mostly due to the org philosophy which led to the hiring of mellon head in the first place

benching nate for most of the first 2 months, platooning ti and richie at first, making guys like kfran prove themselves in short stints, thinking that pcl numbers will translate to the mlb….stuff like that

i dont care who this team trades for or plays…unless that person is a clone of barry bonds (who could teach every fucking coach in this org a thing or two about the game) this team is doomed to continue floundering on the offensive side

oh, and so long to the unit…we hardly knew ye