Here’s a question; why are so many of the Giants beat writers making excuses for the Giants? How is explaining to me that all free agent signings come with some risk part of Henry Schulman’s job?
…. The Giants’ position is this: Every signing carries some risk, whether the player had surgery or not, that is weighed against the potential reward.
If you want to look outside this organization, consider the Dodgers. They took a risk when they signed Jason Schmidt to a three-year, $47 million contract knowing he had shoulder issues but also knowing how he could carry a staff if he was right. For that money they got 10 starts and three wins. The A’s signed Ben Sheets for $10 million last winter after he missed a year with elbow surgery. Also, it was widely believed he has back issues. They took a risk. As of May 13, the reward remains uncertain.
The best a team can do is ask all the right questions and do all they can to determine how healthy the player is at the time he is signed. Did the Giants ask all the right questions with DeRosa? It’s hard to know for sure, because I wasn’t in the room.
Thanks, Henry. I was wondering if life’s risks apply to the Giants just like they apply to me.
But, if you really want to be helpful, why don’t you explain why the Giants shouldn’t get any heat from their fans? It’s not just the DeRosa signing. Freddie Sanchez is injured, too. In point of fact, because the team, because Sabean seems to think that the best players in baseball are old, the Giants have been dealing with this kind of wasted resources for a decade now. A decade of old, past their prime free agents and trade acquisitions. A. DECADE.
Who cares how much research the team’s medical staff did. GET YOUNG PLAYERS FOR A FUCKING CHANGE!
Old players get injured. Old players get injured. How can the Giants fail to recognize this? How can you, Henry Schulman, fail to recognize that this has happened again and again and again. How can you think we need you to cover Sabean’s ass again? Shit goes sideways? Really?
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SIGN OLD PLAYERS ALL THE TIME. THEY SPEND TIME ON THE DL.
You want to have some fucking credibility? Go after the owners. Go after the GM. Because they are failing.
More Backstabbing Rumor mongering
I wrote here of this louts inclination to mouth organ Sabean and pass it off as reporting on May 1.
Well, Chief “Drools-on-Sabean’s Balls” rather than make even more fucking excuses for the abysmal Sabean deals, has decided to take on Freddy Sanchez again. Funny how guys like this always manage to rip a guy when he is not around to defend himself.
Here’s the latest blast, and the point is while it may be right on, the problem isn’t Sanchez as we all know. The is Sabean for signing this guy and the dozens like him over the past 15 years. But with this so-called reporter who feels an overwhelming sense of purpose when attacking ballplayers, in the interest of protecting his coveted spot in the players parking lot, the itinerant players resulting from the assembly line of has-beens that Stooge has running out at ATT are the only ones worthy of opinionated criticism, and not the perpetrator and architect of these annual boondoggles that keep the Giants continuously out of the post season. In those instances, he chooses to exercise “restraint” and simply “report.” Fucking bullshit.
Nice try Alice. This is the second time in 14 days that this wad has ripped Sanchez; without even talking to Sanchez. Or Sanchez agent. Or anybody except Sabean, Bochy and “anonymous” sources.
What a disgusting piece of shit.
Pat Burrell has been DFA’d by the Rays. Now I’m not certain here but doesn’t that mean we can pick him up for league minimum while the Rays pick up whatever is remaining of his $16m contract? If so then the Giants should consider it. DeRosa has been a bust in LF and Burrell at league minimum would be worth a punt. He has hit poorly for the last year or so but he himself mentioned that part of the problem was adjusting to being a DH. I know his defence has been brutal but surely the rewards far outweigh the risks here. Again just to clarify I am only advocating making this move if we can get him at league minimum. The Giants need a power bat and the preference would be for a right handed hitter since we are over-loaded with lefties, Burrell would be a risk but a small risk if he are barely paying him.
Just another small point, we have the 4th best run differential in baseball right now. Let me say that again, the 4th best in all of baseball. This is despite the fact that we have scored fewer runs than 20 other teams in MLB and having the foutrth worst offense in the NL (By runs scored). A league average offense could be good enough to get us to the playoffs, only problem is that league average means everyone on this ball club hitting out of their skin.
Let’s not and say we did. Who would be taken out of the roster to make room for a 34 year old who’s batting .202/.292/.333/.625? Someone young, who can actually run the bases, with the possibility of an up side, that is who.
Burrell has 7 stolen bases in his 10+ year career. There are enough old/slow/fat/crippled players on the Giants’ roster as it is.
Part of his problem is adjusting to being a DH; most of his problem is that his career is over and he is in denial. Tampa Bay, one of the cheapest organizations in baseball, has DA’d him despite owing $9 million this year, just to get him the fuck off their roster.
Sorry I didn’t make this clear in my original post but the idea would be for DeRosa to go on the DL to have suregery or whatever on his wrist, thus freeing up the roster spot. I don’t disagree that there is a good chance that Burrell is finished but the point here is that if there is any chance he can turn it around and get closer to how he hit in Philly then maybe it is worth a flier on him since there would be little cash involved.
I think the bigger point which I didn’t mention in my original post is that DeRosa probably should get surgery on his wrist now rather than waiting untill the off-season. I don’t see how rest is really going to get him back to being fully fit and functioning. Remember we are stuck with him for another season, so surely it is better to write him off for this season get him fixed up and hope he can be reasonable next year rather than let him play through the pain have surgery after the season and be stuck at this exact same place next year. It feels like last years Edgar Renteria fiasco all over again.
If DeRosa does eventually land on the DL then my preference is to give Bowker a try (platoon him with Torres perhaps?). The someone young, who can run the bases, with the possibility of upside that we could add to the roster over DeRosa is Elijah Dukes. Is he a clubhouse cancer? Someone with serious makeup problems? I don’t know but at the very least the Giants should look into him.
Rather than shoot DeRosa up with Cortisone so he can continue to hit like a pansy, and destroy whatever is left of the tendons in his writs, the crack Giants medical staff can put Sabean and Bochy on the MDL; perform the long-delayed and much needed frontal lobotomy on each, promote John Barr, get rid of all the fucking deadwood and deadbeats that have accumulted tenure during Sabean’s snooze-athon and raid Tampa, Minnesota and Bostons front offices.
Five fucking years of watching the most boring putrid overpaid offense in the history of the franchise, just adds to the misery of fine pitching being flushed down the drain by a bunch of retarded cocksuckers.
tonite, pumpkinhead made a move that even took the homers in the booth out of the game
he ph’d pharoh for downs in the 9th
why they even brought pharoh up is questionable…but he had never faced bell….and of course, bell made him look like a total idiot
Why not take a flyer on Burrell? He’s local and may just be missing NL pitching and certainly has more power potential than anyone else on the roster other than Pablo. Seriously, what’s the downside?
update….
the bat that was to take the giants to the post season, ryan garko, was 3 for 32 with the rangers and was just optioned to oklahoma city
another brilliant trade by sabean
At least the Sanchez segment of that post-season push worked out.
Having listened to the most recent podcast interview of Sabean I could almost feel sorry for the Giants beat writers. Sabean is nearly incoherent. Ifyouweretotranscribethewayhetalksitwouldlooklikethis. He sounds like a nervous wreck or someone who is heavily medicated. And well he might be, having clear and indisputable evidence of his own incompetence and his horrible decision making which has resulted in the throwing away of millions and millions of dollars. Even the softball tossing interviewer, who dished up leading questions that supplied the easy answers, had Sabean in a corner.
Highlights of his ramblings include his continued lack of confidence in the younger players and his continued assertion that the team needs more of a veteran presence. The man is a broken record, and from the sound of him, he may be heading for a nervous breakdown.
But I do not feel sorry for Henry Schulman, who continues to defend the Giants’ management team. In the wake of the San Diego series, a series which put on display the glaring flaws in the Giants offense, he continues to drink and offer to his readers the steaming sunshine colored piss that is the Larry Baer Kool Aid.
Schulman states the Giants position, which denies the possibility of any blame being placed on the organization for the series of bad trades and the parade of geriatric cases that troop onto the diamond for a few days then retire to the DL. There is a total lack of accountability. There is a total lack of accountability. There is a total lack of accountability.
“Here’s a question; why are so many of the Giants beat writers making excuses for the Giants?”
I assume that this is a rhetorical question, but in any case I think the answer is that most fans — in particular casual fans who are probably the majority of the Giants’ fan base — prefer it this way. My wife is a good example. When we go to games she likes to enjoy herself and doesn’t appreciate my rants about Molina’s lack of plate discipline, Renteria’s declining range, Sabean’s idiotic FA signings, etc. Same with the media coverage of the team — she likes to read happy stories about the players’ kids, their hobbies, how the team has better “chemistry” this year, and so on. She tunes out stories about how Sabean’s signings of old, mediocre, injury-prone FAs are crippling the team. Of course this is not how you and I approach things, but then for most people — even most fans — the Giants are not life-and-death.
Joe Posnanski’s web site has an interesting poll that bears on this. It asks readers the following question:
“Weigh in on a discussion I’m having with a friend. For your local sport media what would you rather have?
1) A group generally tolerant and supportive of local teams
2) Watchdogs that are naturally combative with local teams”
I am guessing that 90% of OBM readers — including me — would choose Opinion #1. Yet over 70% of the people on Joe Posnanski’s web site chose option #2. So, here at OBM we are a minority, which is fine…
Right Idea. Wrong Questions
The correct choices are
1) Fucking Press Releases
2) The Painful Fucking Truth
It would still probably come to about 50/50.
Just look at the cocksuckers that keep getting elected to office.
You have it backwards, over 70% chose option one or as its known around here, The Giants Way
If the FO wasn’t making such egregious mistakes and saying such dumb shit, I wouldn’t be combative with them at all. But they do and say such things, so what else would they expect from people who can see past their smoke?
john,
did you listen to the podcast that i linked to?
sabean has lost it
the press corp are his enablers
the man needs an intervention
one cannot get help unless one hits rock bottom
so for his own good, he needs to be fired
I couldn’t get it to work. Try me again, please.
Try this here
His lips move, but he’s on autopilot.
“Douchtalk with Brian” – a weekly embarrassment defending his atrocious transactions for useless veterans and attacking defenseless home-growns.
Fucking douche knocking lack of RBIs hit by Ishikawa, Bowker, and Shierholz as the reason the team sucks.
LMAO