Nick Johnson Over Ishikawa over Garko?

I'm having more trouble understanding the possible signing of "second tiered FA" Nick Johnson. He brings the OBP but that's about it. And Twin has me on board with believing in Ishikawa's home numbers and realistically seeing that they could bleed into his away numbers. And if Sabean goes and get NJ now, why didn't he just do that at the deadline last year? NJ looks like he's a marginal upgrade over Garko (the real Garko not the fraud we saw last year) and only would be preferred to Ishikawa if you think he'd stay healthy (unlikely) and that Travis will show no improvement in 2010.........

Big Game Day. I've probably been to about 20 of them. Today's game will be the most electric in quite some time. You can traditionally toss out the point spread in this game. Toss it out today, too. 7 points? I'm going with -30. The only thing I hate more than Cal fans is.....wow, there's really nothing. I am looking forward to the pre and post game celebration today......

Lincecum and The Clueless Local Beat Writers......

Baggs, who I love, did a worse job than Schulman did in explaining why he voted for Carpenter. He spends a paragraph talking about the "skill" that it takes to win games, how immeasurable it is, etc. Total bullshit. When analyzing baseball statistics, luck plays more of a part in the "win/loss" category for pitchers than any other stat you can find. By a mile.

Tim's last 9 starts of the season he pitched well enough (MORE than well enough to win 7 of those starts) but he only got 3 wins (plus 2 no decisions and 4 losses).

I like Schulman well enough and I love Baggs but the fact that these two local writers went "Carpenter" when it was a toss up is a joke. They should both write apology articles to Lincecum and Bay Area fans.....

Henry Schulman is an Idiot.....

Sorry, there's no other way to put it. He voted for Carpenter with his CY vote and then tries to lamely defend it in his column today. He admits that Carpenter's 17-4 record "jumped off the page to him". Wow, "win total", that's a great thing to get hung up on when grading a pitcher's season. Hey, Matt Palmer went 11-2 this year! I bet Schulman creamed his jeans when he saw that.

His feeble run support argument is a joke. It doesn't take into consideration individual games, which is how wins and losses are figured dipshit, he just looks and sees they got the same run support number. How many times did Tim leave with the lead or the game tied when the offense couldn't muster more than 1 or 2 runs for him? How many of those games did he not get the win? 8?

Forgetting the importance of the dominance factor when determining a Cy Young, he glosses over Lincecum's sick SO total and defends Carpenter's keen ground ball inducing skills. Even at the end of his article the best he's done is argue it's a toss up. If that the case you give it to the pitcher you WATCHED all year. He voted for a guy I bet he only saw pitch in person a couple of times. Idiot.....

Sabean's Plan: Do Nothing

The Haft article was a huge let down. No trades. He won't even resign the affordable guys we have. What does that tell you about the guys he's gonna sign? I'm not sure if Sabean is blind or stupid or both, but he isn't fixing this offense with one mid-level free agent signing. About the only thing I'm happy about in the article is his "distaste" for trades. Good, but not for the reasons he gave. He's got no fucking clue how to pull off a skillful trade in today's market. Just keep the good prospects we have and hope they make it up here sooner rather than later.....

Why aren't we in the Uggla rumors?

He seems to be perfect for us. I hope Sabean is a part of these trade talks but according to everything I've read we aren't involved at all. This pisses me off. Sabean can't add another "Uribe" it's time to do something dramatic that will change this offense for the better.....

Stephen Jackson just got traded for shit to the Bobcats. Ha, I love it. Go wallow away in Charlotte you chump.....

Fred Lewis

I can't believe I am typing these words, but I think we need to give Fred Lewis another shot. If Carney Lansford screwed anyone up it was Fred. When he wasn't slapping the ball hopelessly the other way he was taking pitches and getting behind in the count only to guess wrong and swing through a dead-red fastball, missing it by a mile. I'd really like to see what BamBam could do with Fred. For starters, I'd like to see what happens when he's encouraged to pull the ball or at least DRIVE the ball. I'm not saying have a plan to start him in 2010. Just sign him to another one year deal, get him in the cages YESTERDAY working with Bam Bam and see what happens. His value is worthless, it's not like we could trade him for Jack. It's a low risk/high reward move......

Pat Burrell

I'm fairly certain I know how this idea is going to go over: How about Sabean trying to pick up Pat Burrell? He would cost virtually nothing, you might even get the Rays to pay part of the 8 million he's owed in 2010. Last year was not the real PB. He hated playing in Tampa Bay and is an NL guy through and through. He just turned 33 so I doubt if he sees 2010 as his retirement year and he will need to put up a fat season to get his *retirement contract*. He's from the Bay, he'd give us a legit power bat and anyone who thinks his stats were inflated hitting in Philly think again: In 2008 he hit 33 bombs, 21 of them on the road. I say Pat the Bat would be a nice, cheap option for us in 2010 (even less expensive than Cameron)......

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