Heres an Idea......

Okay, what about trading say.....Lowry and Sanchez to the Phillies for Greg Dobbs. His line is short,

AVG .272 | HR 10 | RBI 55 | OBP .330 | SLG .451

Thats for two seasons but the guy can play. He'd be young enough to give him a couple years to grow and 10 homers for his first two years...that might show some pop. What do you think? Ideally I say Lowry straight across but I don't think that would be enough......so, what do you think? Give me some feedback.

Feliz trails, Pete.

Well Happy Pete has left the Gigantes for a two year deal. What happened to that required third year I haven't found out yet but the fact that he signs with the Phillies for a contract that looks basically the same as offered by the Giants seems like Pete was making a statement. Almost like he said "take that" to Sabes and the boys. And I don't get it. What would make Pedro Feliz think he is deserving of a third year? What has he done to stand out? He stands out in my mind as the popping outest, swingingest infielder I've seen since a young Matt Williams before he found his groove or at least a vitamin B-12 infused Red Bull. Good riddance Pedro. I feel like I just said goodbye to that annoying cousin who knows that just because he has all the official G.I. Joe action figures and not the cheap knockoffs you get at the dollar store, that somehow I need him. What do you have that I don't? Why cant my blue "LizardEyes" have to take a backseat to your official Snake Eyes? He might be just as bad ass! What does losing Pedro do to hurt the Giants? Yea, he's a slick fielder but in these days of offense, offense and more offense, keeping Pete is like inviting your junior high basketball coach to come play at the park with your boys. You know he's gonna be wearing those knee high tube socks and waiting for the rest of the team to run that four corner offense of holding the ball as long as possible before scoring. Goodbye Pete! You ingrate. I'll admit, I wasn't totally against you coming back, after all, with you at third and with a good young pitching staff our strength was gonna be pitching and defense. Now with you gone its pitching and some decent defense. Of course you know the Giants didnt see this coming otherwise they would have announced that Frandsen or whoever was gonna be at 3B and not waited this long to deal with Pete. They thought that by waiting till all the other 3bers were off the market, Pete would come back with his head between his legs. Now what Sabes? Pete signed that deal to spite the Giants. Of course, Giants fans know deep down that this now makes a trade of LinceCain almost inevitable again. After this Sabean will start getting twitchy. I do the same thing around 10:30 and I haven't had a diet Pepsi yet. I start to think. Theres still talk of a Crede trade so you know what the Sox are gonna ask for. It's inevitable. Because I want it. I want a team with great young pitchers. With Barry Zito the third or fourth starter. Just to remind us every third day what baffoons are running the Giants. Days one and two will be those days we feel optimitic. Lowry at the four or three spot will be my rootin day since I've been a Lowry guy all along and day five will be our wait and see day. WTF. I'm not right today. I'm all over the place. I'm just glad Pete's gone.

Jet Packs

This is the 21st century. This epiphany just hit me about 45 minutes ago. This is the age when theoretically I should have a jet pack in my closet with a helmet with a fin on top. A laser of some type for some sort of defense, whether it be for fighting Al Queda or burning moles of Lasorda's can. I should be entering a cooking time as well as my dinner from a keypad on my microwave and the Giants should have, by my estimation, should be hanging two World Series banners as of this day. I'm not going to revisit the past, that would be to brutal. Instead, I'm going to imagine that we are taking a fresh look ahead after what has been a winning past 20 years where the G Men have been competitive and now is the time to reload. Of course, I know its more a case of retooling but thats not the point. It's time to bring on the kids. Lets see them baby Giants! What better way to start from scratch. It's a win win for Sabean who promised to go younger. Instead it almost looks like the same ole "Meet the New Same Giants" where we have resigned vets off the scrap heap. Joe Crede? Good luck in Chi-town. Happy Pete? Happy trails. Sabes promised to go young so why not stick to his word? He has a free pass in a sense with so much interest in LinceCain while at the same time the expectations from Giant fans aren't that high? What better time to evaluate Velez, Burriss, hell, I'm even curious to see if Scott McClain can do anything! Whats the worst that can happen? He might not be our answer at 1B so the Giants can purge the system of those not in our future plans, spend a year saving a buck or two and at the end of 2008 make a splash and sign players we KNOW we will need after seeing what the kids can do and where they all shake down. With all the steroid hearings who's gonna remember anything else this year anyway?

Spring Training is near!!!

Well I think picking up all those cans along Highway 99 is going to pay off. Assuming I don't get hit with an unforseen expense or can avoid karaoke binge-drinking night for about a month, I might have scraped enough greenbacks to make it to Arizona for spring training. It's been a good 9 years since the last time but this time might be a little different. I'm just hoping the Giants can look competitive! Save some face. Granted, its only spring training but its a little different this year being as how, well, we're gonna pretty much suck all year. I say draw from the Bill Bilicheck School of Scoring and blow as many teams out as possible. Leave the starters in. Use the bullpen to set up.......well, make the starters go the distance. Brush back Rony Cedeno, periodic tables be damned, the only elements the Giants should acknowledge is the element of surprise just like good ole' Chuck Norris. Do you think Chuck plays for fun? Chuck is able to cash any check his body writes and the Giants should do the same this coming spring. I want to be able to sit next to Joe Dumars like I did in Phoenix one year and wave my finger in his face. "How bout THOSE bad boys Joe?" "How does that taste Joe?". Joe was actually pretty nice. He tried to ignore me and did a pretty good job. Which reminds me of a story of how I scared the bejeezus out of Kristy Yamaguchi one day as she was waiting for her ride in S.F. The details are a little fuzzy but as I remember I was just trying to say hello and she almost fell into the street off the curb as she was backing away. Again, binge drinking has been my achilles heel. BTW, is there a Hooters in S.F. or was I in a tranny bar? Well, in any case the Giants need to get it together. I'm gonna be expecting to see Rowand diving and Durham stealing and if a hammy gets pulled, then stick some icy hot on em and throw um back out there. Actually, I'm sure I'll be to drunk to realize what the hell's going on. I need to get some help.

......I'm not here to talk about the past.

Far be it for me to judge. Who the hell am I? What right do I have to cast stones? Blah blah and so on so here I go.

Is it me or does anyone else think Roger Clemens is full of shit? Of course it could be HGH or roids but it sure does smell like shit to me. Normally I could care less about it but this phone taping deal has me a twitter. Imagine this. Clemens and Petite, close as a pair of Montana cowboys in the high country, working and sweating manly sweat with each other. Watching each other pump and lift, pump and lift. "Nice pecs Rog, what are you doing to get that mass? I can't seem to bulk up." "Well Andrew, bend over and I'll show you." Now the conversation probably didn't go quite like this but I bet it was close. So Roger used steroids. Big freakin deal. Who doesn't? I did and all it did was swell my fingers. I still type at 27 words per minute. That would have been the end of the story as far as I was concerned. Pettite confirmed McNamee's story. Nobody's talking about him now. Fernando Vina and F.P. Santangelo among others came clean to give some credibility to the Mitchell Report. End of story for those two. Roger secretly tapes his ex-buddy saying nothing to prove that Clemens didn't take HGH. Roger never said, "Your a liar! Tell the truth." Clemens, if you listen again, was ambiguous. MacNamee asked, "what do you want me to do?" Rogers response? Listen again and see. You can tell Clemens was VERY careful what he said. Not because he would tip off that he was taping the call, but because he didn't want MacNamee to blurt out anything more damaging. Clemens apologists claim Mac is lying. I say why? What motive would he have to? He already named a big name in Pettite and that was accurate. Why risk jail time by lying and naming Clemens who you KNOW is gonna be pissed!!! And what about the rest of the call? Why can't we hear that also??? I want to hear it all. And as for Clemens filing a lawsuit, isn't this a convenient time to do this? After all, how will he be able to testify when he has a case pending? When the Rocket goes to Washington, be prepared for a whole lot of ".....because of my pending lawsuit, I am unable to answer that question." It might not be as entertaining as "....I'm not here to talk about the past" or ".......no comprende." To me this is the exact stunt pulled by Raphael Palmeiro. It's Rogers way of pointing his finger defiantly and saying, " I did not use steroids." Of course the only difference is, Clemens is using a different finger.

Happy 2008.......now what?

Ok. Nothing new to post. Just mulling over what I'd tell Sabes' if he were to call me. To be honest, I'd tell him "your doing a fine job." Why I don't know. I guess cause I'd be afraid he'd pull the trigger on that Lincecum for (insert 36 year old center fielder's name here). So even though this offense is gonna score more times than I did on my honeymoon (0-1), it's not gonna be that much more. Where'd I put my Cheetos......