San Francisco Giants.......2009!

This should tell you alot when I'm looking ahead to next year and the Giants are only into their second game of PRESEASON! There are some interesting names on the list. Carl Crawford and Hank Blalock caught my eye but do the Giants have any shot at them? I think a more likely course for this team should be to wait for Durham to get off to a hot start (its his contract year) and trade him to a contender for hitting prospects. Of course it would be easier if the Giants could do the same with Dave Roberts and Omar but thats not gonna happen. The Giants are in a hole and its gonna get ugly. Uglier. Britney Spears in the morning with no make up or frapachino ugly. Does anyone remember a time when the Giants had a farm system that was a top rated one??? Even the ones in the late 80's (Clark, Thompson etc.) was criticized for not producing pitchers. What is it that the A's do that we can't? Guillermo Frijole can't be that much smarter than Sabean right?

In anycase, I'm sitting here with my cheetos and Fresca waiting for the game. Lincecum on the mound. Somebody at third. Frandsen at second. My man Ortmeier at first. Baseball is back!



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San Francisco Giants 2008.......part II

True story. Once at work on break some coworkers and I were reading the fishwrap about an article about how the length from the bottom of the palm of your hand to the tip of your "friendship" finger relates to the length of your manliness. We, as any guy would, immediately started comparing. One guy in particular we noticed was hiding his hand in his pocket. We finally got him to show us why and as he pulled out his hand we all broke out in laughter. The tip of his finger was cut off. Thats my analogy to this team in this division this year. But, what we lack in length maybe we can make up in girth. LOL. WTF. I'm losing it.

I read how J.T. Snow is spending time at first with my man Dan Ortmeier. Thats good news. Its like that old saying, "build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a night. Set him on fire and he'll be warm the rest of his life."

This season needs to start already.


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San Francisco Giants 2008..........

Ya know. I don't know what to think about Joe Crede. It hit me last night watching Pedro Feliz go two for two that, dare I say it, I miss Pete already. It wasn't the fact that he was hitting doubles, hell, its spring training. I think it's that he was not in a San Francisco Giants uni. I was wondering if anyone else feels this way also. So then I realized I really don't care if the Giants sign Crede or not. It won't matter in the big scheme of things. Deep down I want to believe the Giants can make a run at the division but thats my inner "Tony Robbins" in me. The Giants have the pitching to make a decent showing but I'm more interested in watching Velez or Ortmeier and the others play a full season. I wanna see Sabean make some lemonade outta the mess this team is in. I think the only thing regarding Crede that I try to keep an eye on is who will be traded for him. In any case, happy trails Pedro Feliz. This Giants fan wishes you doubles galore (unless it's against my beloved Gigantes). I wonder how Armando Blownitez is?

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Ortmeier watch 2008

Ortmeier has been taking groundballs and catching throws at first base under the watchful eye of special assistant J.T. Snow, who won six Gold Gloves at the position, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The Giants are trying to make sure that Ortmeier heads into the regular season with the tools necessary to excel at first base position.



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Made for television

Whats the holdup already? Barry Bonds needs to play. Seattle needs to sign him already. Of course I'm rooting for the Yankees to pick him up but thats just my masochistic leather chaps showing. Could you imagine Barry and his recliner in the same clubhouse as A-Rod and his lip gloss? I'd like a live feed and a translator next to Matsui. Through in not one but TWO Steinbrenners in the mix. JEEZ! How can this NOT happen? Barry's head would explode and NY would be slimed in flaxseed or whatever is filled up in his head. Now, I'm a Barry apologist I'll admit but I am a believer in karma and Barry in pinstripes makes cosmic sense. That would at the very least guarantee new episodes of "the Bronx is Burning" don't you think? James Earl Jones as the aging superstar with attitute. Penn and Teller as the Steinbrenners. I don't know who the hell I'd put in for A-Rod. Vern Troyer would have to be in there somewhere I know that.



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Durham.......

Okay, I have been thinking about this. To me Ray Durham is going to have a better year. I can feel it in my bones. Can he really get worse? Really? IF Ray stays healthy I GUARANTEE he will produce. Think of the remifications that would have.....a healthy Durham. All of a sudden that offense looks almost menacing. Almost. At best that would give Frandsen time at third and my boy Nate could stay on first and platoon with Aurilia. Of course that being said and Durham starts slapping doubles again it's probable Sabean trades him but maybe we get some quality back. I am not convinced Joe Crede is the answer. What I am convinced is the bloggers in Chi-Town are seriously convinced a Crede/Cain trade is fair. Hell, I don't think a Crede/Lewis trade is straight. I could see Crede/player to be named later. That would make total sense. It's spring training and the Giants begin their march to 70 wins. 80 is possible. Right? Anyone else read the blogs on Crede? Freakin Sox fans. I'm delusional. Damn flu.

Secrets of the Gods.....wtf?

For all intents and purposes, I have been trying to look at this season as something other than it is. It is a down year, a retooling year, a rebuilding year. One thing it isn't is a "reloading" year. That means, in Sabes speak, it is going to get ugly. Scot McClain of all people got a nice write up on the Giants page. Nice. The way this team is looking, McClain at first or third might be a reality. What I can't figure out is this. Why do we still have Roberts, Durham and even Aurilia (I love you Richie). This team is going to be bad with them, why not trade em and be bad with a bunch of young guys? I think the reason is somewhere deep down in his bowels Brian Sabean has a plan. Whether or not that plan includes being competitive I don't know. I wouldn't think so but if you look at this lineup and listen to Bochy, I almost believe what they are preaching. The Go Go Giants are here. By midseason Eugenio Velez will get his shot. Lewis will by then start to establish himself even more so as a big leaguer and the Giants, by midseason, will generate some excitement and somehow, towards the end of the season, ruin the Dodgers march to the penant by sweeping and adding to the storied rivalry. That, I'm assuming is this years plan and you know what, I can kinda see it. Zito as the number one will give Cain a great shot at winning some more games. Matt Cain as a #2. HA. Lincecum as a #3! Hell, even Lowry as a #4. I almost feel like talking the trash talk to my idiotic Dodger neighbor. Of course our offense may have to include the offensive plan employed by the Bad News Bears, short batters and a few Rudy Whatshisname taking one in the shoulder. But c'mon. The GoGo Giants have some speed! Bochy's right!!!

God I'm an idiot.

D-Day?

Wow. WTF?! A couple of quick thoughts. In Jose Canseco's book "Juiced" he makes the claim on pages 211-212 that "B-12" was code for steroids:

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It was so open, the trainers would jokingly call the steroid injections "B12 shots," and soon the players had picked up on that little code name, too. You'd hear them saying it out loud in front of each other: "I need to go in and get a B12 shot," a player would say, and everyone would laugh. (Of course, that was the kind of joke you really only made around other steroid users, because obviously they were in the same boat as you. What were they going to do, tell on you? Not hardly.)

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It was the pitchers that kept the "B12" joke going. For example, I've never seen Roger Clemens do steroids, and he never told me that he did. But we've talked about what steroids could do for you, in which combinations, and I've heard him use the phrase "B12 shot" with respect to others.

A lot of pitchers did steroids to keep up with hitters. If everyone else was getting stronger and faster, then you wanted to get stronger and faster, too. If you were a pitcher, and the hitters were all getting stronger, that made your job that much more difficult. Roger used to talk about that a lot.

"You hitters are so darn strong from steroids," he'd say.

"Yeah, but you pitchers are taking it, too. You're just taking different types," I'd respond.

And sometimes Roger would vent his frustration over the hits even the lesser players were starting to get off good pitchers. "Damn, that little guy hit it odd the end of the bat and almost drove it to the wall," he would say. He would complain about guys who were hitting fifty homers when they had no business hitting thirty. It was becoming more difficult for pitchers all the time, he would complain.

I can't give chapter and verse on Roger's training regimen. But I'll tell you what I was thinking at the time:

One of the classic signs of steroid use is when a player's basic performance actually improves later in his career. One of the benefits of steroids is that they're especially helpful in countering the effects of aging. So in Roger's case, around the time that he was leaving Boston-and Dan Duquette, the general manager there, was saying he was "past his prime"-Roger decided to make some changes. He started working out harder. And whatever else he may have been doing to get stronger, he saw results. His fastball improved by a few miles per hour. He was a great pitcher long before then; it wasn't his late-career surge that made him great. But he certainly stayed great far longer than most athletes could expect.

Whether Brian McNamee is a credible witness or not is besides the point. Andy Pettitte is credible. Chuck Knoblauch is also credible. And what about the nanny? Where is the peach swimsuit. If the suit still fits, I wanna see the hot nanny!

OH YEA. And somebody should test Debbie Clemens for 'roids. Did you see the mug on her? I don't know if its just me but she almost looks a little Brooke Hoganish manny. All this and what will be the end result? Will anyone actually see jail time or just probation? And what about MLB? The Mitchell Report makes it clear at least some owners and G.M.'s knew something. What I'd give to see Brian Sabean on the hot seat saying "what kind of idiot do you think I am?" to Mr. Waxman (who is btw the smallest non circus performer I've seen in a while). It kills me to say it but put Sabes up there. Maybe it will distract him enough so that he won't send my man Lowry packing for the "talk show" city for Pedro Crede. What this all boils down to is how are you gonna pin the Rocket down? Is there someone who can verify that "B-12" is indeed steroids? Roger would be proven to be telling the truth, after all, he was only taking "B-12" and not B-12. McNamee would be proven to be telling one version of his as truthful. I don't know, what do you think of all this? I guess it is what it is.