This franchise has been a disgrace since 2003, refusing to pursue and or secure true hitters blaming Bonds’ big contract and when that went off the books, the dickwads blamed their failures on “a pitchers park”.

Since Baker left, Sabean’s been hiring fruitcakes, pinochle players, and retarded pizza delivery truck drivers to play outfield and infield, before finally deciding to saddle the pitching staff with a tub of pudding who would finish third in a race with a pregnant woman, while waving ‘ole at passed ball after passed ball.

This is not a baseball team. It is a pitching staff sharing a dugout with a collection of over the hill, useless, beer guts who were kind of okay in 2006, with a generous sprinkling of worthless graduates of the Joe Lefebvre College of Slop Hacking, ready to join previous graduates Todd Linden, Lance Niekro, Dan Ortmeir, Marcus Jensen and all the rest of the ruined and inept system players before them under the Sabean regime on the scrap heap of retro-sheet.org trivia.

This is a pitching staff that has now run out of gas for all the reasons mentioned in the article and the above comments. Don’t look for them to put out a season like this anytime soon. One only has to look at the 1980 Oakland A’s when the idiot drunken jack-ass Billy Martin ruined the careers of 5 promising starters by ringing up 94 complete games out of Steve McCatty, Rick Langford, Mike Norris, Brian Kingman, and Matt Keough. He literally ruined the careers of all 5 of those players in one season by the same injudicious abuse that Bochy has invoked on Lincecum and Cain.

Until or unless Neukom cleans house and fumigates the front office as well as the clubhouse, this team is going nowhere. There is no hope on the horizon that this team will be capable of adding even the minimum 100 runs to this years total to make them competitive even in 2011.

Sanchez is the biggest ripoff trade sine Nathan Liriano and Bonser. And again it was a team with no leverage and no money that got over on Sabean. He was medically unsound. He couldn’t even limp into the clubhouse the day he was supposed to be traded.

Their big time 16 year old prospect is in jail on murder charges. The best that come of it was he was a 19 year old kid with 2.1 million dollars of partnership money in a bar with a gun while his teammates were winning a championship.

The list of travesties committed by Sabean and Bochy are too numerous to mention in any detail in this comment section. The bottom line is this.

The Giants are going to finish in 3rd place or lower in a 5 team division for the 5th time in 5 years.

For the 5th year in a row, they are going to finish last or near last in most every major offensive category and next year looks worse. I predicted that it would be almost impossible for Lincecum to repeat his 18 wins from last year and that was a slam dunk. Back to back 162 game seasons will reveal every single weakness in a ballclub. And this season revealed what every person with a clear head has known for quite some time. That Brian Sabean was and is incompetent.

Despite Mr. Thumbface Mychael Urban, Giants announcers and other specious media mouthpieces spreading that propaganda, the AT&T is hitter neutral. As written here before, if the Giants were that concerned, they would simply reel in the fences in triples alley and put in novelty seats and make even more money. It is such a blatant lie, that only somebody who does not really study or question the game would believe such a silly notion. People like this go through life only knowing what they know because it makes them feel better to listen to the lies of the liars who are paid to lie to them.

Somehow it makes their childish, childhood notions seem believable and lets them sleep at night. The liars and frauds and conmen know this human fraility and weakness. They take advantage of it. The pigeon drop and three card monte games along with lotteries and gaming casinos reel in millions from the illusion chasers. Idiotic garlic-farters are no different, they just have a different set of illusions.

Some of us see a broken down horrible trade for a Freddy Sanchez consumated by a fraudulent, ill-tempered over-educated hack, and they see and hear “Three Time All Star” “.300 Career Batting Average” “Plays the Game the Right Way.”

Some of us see a great ballplayer and flawed human being dominate the game of baseball like nobody before him on a nightly basis for 15 years and sit back in awe and appreciation and excitement. The deluded and the haters see “cheater” “tainted” “hallowed boohoohoo”.

And Baer and Neukom rake in millions for the partnership.

“Giants Doctors have given Freddy Sanchez full clearance and he’s a 300 hitter and a 3 time all-star so buy your tickets and beer early and often because we’re in this thing!!!!.

Torn cartilage, is fairly easy to diagnose for a competent orthopedist, or even a sports chiropractor. Especially if the meniscus is unstable enought to slip and hook onto other tissue. Over time, arthritis develops in the joint making even more of these episodes likely. Sometimes a slightly awkward step is enough to cause the knee to “lock up” like it did to Sanchez

Physical therapy or chiropractic manipulation can alleviate the immediate symptoms by freeing up the ligament from the meniscus temporarily. Once swelling is reduced, the person can resume normal activity until the next time. And next time has come often for Sanchez this year. Just

Clearly the Giants knew of Sanchez condition, but hoped to roll the dice for a couple of months and maybe get some serviceable play out of him; and if not they could renegotiate a chintzy new contract or kick him out to free agency with a $600,000.00 buy-out. In their minds if he held up, he would bring his “.300 lifetime batting average, 3 times an All-Star and gritty gamer guts” to Pac Bell and contribute to the ongoing illusion of “we’re in this thing”. And if not, fuck it, all they were out was some minor league dude.

Actually pretty much the same scenario that Sabean went through with AJ Piersychitski when he sent Nathan, Liriano and Bonzer to Minnesota. He didn’t have to give up quite as much for Sanchez. Sanchez was injured and the Pirates were desperate to unload his salary, so he only got fleeced for the second best pitching prospect instead of his future closer, and the number one and number two pitching prospects in the system.

And its not like any of this should be a surprise. If anything a casual perusal of the internet would have shown that Sanchez was a horrible, horrible risk for anybody–even without having to give up a prospect. One look at his injury rap sheet and even the most optimistic pie-eyed fan would have cringed at the laundry list of maladies afflicting this guy. And the time lost to injuries was obviously becoming more frequent and the duration longer. The likelihood of Sanchez coming back next year and repeating what he did in 2006 is about as likely as Bonds coming back next season and repeating his own 2006 season.

This is the same crack of team of docs that the Giants have to answer for in the bizarre Noah Lowry case and his misdiagnosed injuries. What about the fat overweight, poo-bucket who was a glob of torn-tissue-waiting-to-happen, and his three year budget busting contract?

Its bad enough that Sabean’s evaluating skills and criteria are as outdated and wrongheaded as the Commodore 64 home computer. Now it seems that the medical team is looking not too good this year either.

I saw the Sanchez injury Monday Night…and I’m thinking…what the fuck just happened. Tweaked
his knee backing up an outfield relay….not a good omen. Damaged goods baby.

Until the fans hold mgmt accountable…and vote with their dollars…not much will change in the upcoming years…and we will have another season on OBM full of rants and tirades about Baer and Sabean.

Another season gone by the wayside.

Amen. This team is for real…and say what you want about Hill…He just wins games…and takes care of the ball.

Yes…Singletary has them believing…and they have all bought into his scheme of doing things.

Big test this weekend….let’s see how we handle Petersen and Favre.

the fucker was playing injured….you dont tear a meniscus going for a throw if you are healthy

just want to say, while bonds was still here, i really thought that sabean was creating a post bonds plan….i really did

i found out quickly that wasnt the case

he had no plan…he still doesnt have a plan

but you know what is going to happen…dont ya?

neukom is gonna look at this season, say the team outperformed expectations…and extend both sabeans and bochy’s contracts

its just that simple

im not saying that either will ever be major league talent

but if you compare how they were treated to rowand, winn and renteria…its pretty amazing

so basically, if you make min wage, you can be jerked around

if you have a multi mil, multi year contract…no matter how much you suck…the giants are gonna play you

took to the final 3 weeks of the season for the brain trust to finally see that rentawreck should not be starting

totally fucking amazing

for those who say a coach doesnt make a difference…look at what singletary has done for that team

the d is basically the same as last year….but they have a fire in their belly

they are playing the game as singletary did when he was a player

by midseason, no one is gonna want to face the niners

The Giants are going to miss the postseason by a small amount of wins. . . Instead, Bochy jerked the player around and then used bad performance analysis to bury him. The Giants and their fans deserve better than that kind of incompetence.

Exactly, exactly, exactly. That and his indefensible misuse of Bobby Howry in late innings of close ballgames, Bengie Molina in the cleanup spot and behind the plate when he is obviously injured and calling a shitty game, and Randy Winn against left handed pitching. Just simply some of the most ridiculous use of a roster I have ever seen at any level….ever.

Bochy’s good friend Kevin Towers had to dfa Vinny Castilla so bad was his performance with a .569 OPS. Thats not an exaggeration. That is exactly what Towers said. It was Sandy Alderson that finally put the hammer down and instructed Towers to show Bochy the door. At the end of the 2006 season. When he still had a year left on his contract. After winning the NL West.

Anybody and everybody that thinks Bochy should be back next year needs their faces slapped and their birth certificates revoked because anybody that thinks Bochy is a competent, let alone above-average manager isn’t from this planet.

It is Bochy’s mismangement on the field and Sabeans numerous and countless fuckups in personnel moves that have prevented this team from winning this division. This fucking year.

I and Johns and Scott and Uncle Joe and many others who have posted over the years have maintained for a long long time that Sabean’s flaws were masked by Bonds. Ironically it was the performance of this year’s pitching staff that unmasked him for the incompetent arrogant nitwit that he is…starting with his hiring of Bruce Bochy.