Position, standing and power allow, nee encourage, folks to overeach their areas of expertise, thus the decent into goofhood. An extension of the Peter Principle if you will.

Great intellect does not immunize persons of shallowness and affected egos from the same personal shortcomings and character defects that afflict the less privileged in our society.

A mouthpiece is just that. This guy was the chief mouth organ for a very controversial corporation. His reward was millions of dollars. He used a lot of those millions to buy his way into an exclusive country club of jock sniffers.

As such, he is inclined to listen to the “experts”. He wants to be accepted by the insiders who preceeded him. It is fucking human nature. Intellect has nothing to do with it. It has to do with being part of an exclusive club.

I don’t know why you seem to be opposed to this concept.

But having said that, the fact that he has double talked around pointed questions concerning the extension of Bochy and Sabean, and honored the committment to the process in place of waiting until the end of the season, is a point in his favor.

But against that backdrop, the two deadline deck chair rearrangement acquisitions of Garko and Sanchez because both are “bottom line” driven if you look at the respective contracts, it is apparent that payroll was the biggest consideration. And that comes from the top.

This is the point that those who are immersed in the process of transactions and roster building rather than a policy and strategy of championship building never seem to grasp for longer than 3 seconds. Which is exactly what the marketing focus groups tell Giants management.

Nice work. I still believe Sabean is a plant…put here by Selig to ruin the Gigantes. There can be no other explanation how a complete Fuck-Wad like him holds down a job with his performance.

I do not see Garko hitting more than .240 because he is moving to a new league with different strike zone…not to mention new pitchers. It will take him at least a month to adjust…a month we cannot afford to lose.

And No…I do not believe he is instantly our 2nd best hitter…and it is much tougher moving to the NL than AL. Overall…in my opinion…Garko is a downgrade from Ish. He will not help us enough with his offense to compensate for what we will be losing in the field. I follow the Tribe…and he is a hack at First. He will not get to balls that Ish covers routinely. I’ll be surprised if Garko even hits 5 hr’s the rest of the season. The Jake in Cleveland is hitter friendly…unlike Pac-Bell.

I didn’t like Garko with the Tribe…and like him less as a Gigante.

As for Velez…he hits well enough to play Left…and maybe Center would be better down the road.

Time will tell