the 4 teams with the largest payrolls in the mlb are in the playoffs

the weather in the east is not fit for man, beast nor baseball

what else would you like commented on?

at least carney was under the impression that the team was looking to get into the playoffs…not rebuilding

a rebuilding team doesnt fire its hitting coach

“Well, he didn’t return my call last night, but there was a very good reason. He was burying his father-in-law.

“I’d gotten the call from Boch two hours before the service,” Lansford said. “Heck of a day.””

““There’s two things I learned,” he said. “Never take a job for sentimental reasons and never take a hitting coach job with an offensively challenged team.””

““Well, obviously it’s not a shock, not a surprise. The reason we didn’t win is we weren’t good enough offensively. You certainly can’t blame the pitching. I wish I had more offense to work with, but I had what I had. I don’t know what I would’ve done differently. I did not work out. I wish the Giants nothing but the best. All I wanted to do is help them win a world championship.”

“That said, we were able to stay in the wild card hunt until the final week of the season. I’m really proud of that. We kept the fans interested and excited for six months.”

““They were looking for a miracle worker. It didn’t happen. I wish with all my heart we had gotten to the postseason. I went to three World Series with the A’s and I tried to teach those guys everything we did to get there.”

““My only comment on the situational hitting is the first thing I was told when I took the job is it was atrocious. Did we work on that? More than you’ll ever know. They just didn’t get it done. We had meetings, we talked about the thought process, we talked about what pitch to look for. I don’t know if anyone had to move more runners than I did, as much as I had to move Rickey (Henderson) all those years. But going out early and doing it against batting practice? Anybody can do that. It comes down to games, when guys are throwing 95 mph fastballs and curveballs when you don’t know they’re coming. You can emphasize the heck out of it, but at some point you just have to find a way to get it done.”

““At some point, guys have to take responsibility for not doing that. That’s one thing I stressed to the guys – Step up and be responsible for yourself. Guys at the big league level, by the time they get there, should know how to do that stuff – move runners, get a guy home from third with less than two outs. If guys are learning that at the big league level, it’s too late. A major league player should not be as poor at it as we were in my two years. Do I take it personally? Of course I do. I know it cost us games. I’m a human being. I’m not a machine. But I’ll sleep good at night knowing I took my best shot.””

I don’t think this needs any interpretation. It just shows what a joke the Giants are. Shawon Dunston is back, mind you, the guy who tells all our hitters they aren’t aggressive enough at the plate gets to come back; the guy with the career line of .269/.296/.416 (yes, you read that right, .296 career OBP, worse than Bengie Molina) in his major league career is brought back to influence our hitters, but Carney Lansford (.290/.343/.411 career hiter) is the scapegoat and gets fired because he didn’t teach out hitters how to execute situational hitting well enough. Because that was the problem with the offense.

I understand giving someone a chance – small sample sizes can and will often distort how good or bad of a job someone is doing if you only give them a couple years. Brian Sabean is the longest tenured GM in baseball. He’s proved over and over that he is incompetent. I was more hopeful than others here at the beginning of the season that Sabean had learned from past mistakes and improved as a GM. To put it flatly – I was wrong then. It’s abundantly clear he has not. He continues to make the same mistakes we’ve seen before, and will continue to do so in the future. The fact that we extended Sabean is a joke. This franchise doesn’t care about winning the World Series, if it did, Brian Sabean would be gone. This franchise cares about filling the stadium, and in that regard, Sabean is fairly successful. That’s not a franchise I want to root for, though.

PS: +mia continues to be a profane joy. A couple/three of years ago we got into a little scrap here and I was ready to find him and slap the shit out of him (metaphorically speaking, I think). He actually emailed me and made peace and I respected that. I understood afterward that he’s being colorful because it’s more fun for him (and others too). Anyway, I’ll miss the commentaries focused on the Giants but I understand the soul-incinerating exasperation.

Brain dead hacking at slop nightly,
Trying to hit 8 run homers with nobody on base,
Pretending to be switch hitters,
Stepping backwards before running to first base.
Stupid baserunning,
Napping in the outfield,
Wonderbread bats instead of Wonderboy
Being robotic company yes men
Whining about not being respected
Avoiding walks at all cost
Refusing to work counts
Making thee outs on 7 pitches.
Making Cy Young Candidates out of spot starters and mop up relievers.

Yup. How dare Lansford demand accountabilty for doing things the “Giants Way”. Just no chemistry at all. Damn Lansford had no concept of Aaron Rowand’s grit and Randy Winn’s savvy, and Bengie Molina’s pitch recognition. None whatsoever.

Whew. Now that he’s gone, I for sure see a pennant in the Giants future. Replacing Carney Lansford was the last piece in the puzzle. I bet right now that SBGGlobal has the Giants as the winter favorites to win the NL right fucking now. Got to hand it to the Giants Front Office, they sure know how to make a positive statement. Phone the one guy who actually knew what he was doing just as he is preparing to take his wife to her father’s funeral and tell him:

“Thanks for coming, we won’t be back in touch”.

Pure corporate class and style.

So for all you fucking pussies who like being the destination sphincter of choice for Neukom, Baer, and Sabean’s fantasies, enjoy the reaming, because it just doesn’t get any better than this.