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12.11.2006
Few People in New Zealand Know of Barry Bonds
I'm back from New Zealand, where the South Island landscapes are rivaled in my limited and humble experience only by the Canadian Rockies and the U.S. southwest desert. It's better to be late than to be never, so I weigh...

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12.12.2006
Eric Gagne is Not My Padre
And not my Giant, either. Whew. Another bullet dodged. No pun intended. Before we go farther into unintended punland, I'd like to mention that BP writer Nate Silver says this year's free-agent market is running at a 47% inflation rate...

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12.13.2006
Roll of the Dice-K
So now we know how much Daisuke Matsuzaka (first name pronounced "Dice-K," according to this story) is worth to the Boston Red Sox: $51.1 M posting fee + $52 M/6 yr contract w/$8 M incentives. Let the ZitoWatch begin. While...

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12.15.2006
Tea Leaves
My main man Elbo snuck into the live Q&A session the Giants held for season ticket holders last night and reports this classic Sabeanism: "If a pitcher like Barry Zito showed some interest in a team like the Giants, I'm...

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12.18.2006
Are You Listening, Brian?
"Some of these things are unpopular, but you know what would be more unpopular? If we did nothing, got too old, too expensive and had to go scrounging and overpaying for leftover and mediocre talent." - White Sox GM Kenny...

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12.18.2006
Never Trust Anyone Over Thirty
Today's bone to chew on: Should we feel betrayed by the Giant front office's promise that the 2007 team would be younger and healthier? To refresh your memory, here's the quote from Peter Magowan: "I think we need to go...

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12.19.2006
San Diego North - Updated
As former Giants continue to flock south to join Ned Colletti in L.A., former Padres pass them heading north. Ryan Klesko is now a Giant, prompting me to do that funny mouth sound people make when they pretend to enjoy...

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12.20.2006
Off the Island
With Ryan Klesko on board at a very reasonable $1.75 million plus incentives, the Giants now have to bump someone from the 40-man roster. It is officially topped up at 40, but when (or is that "if"?) Bonds gets around...

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12.21.2006
No Supp For You?
Jeff Weaver, Mark Mulder, David Wells, Steve Trachsel, and a few other pieces of bellybutton lint are still floating free, but the last big FA pitching acquisition for several teams has come down to Barry Zito and Jeff Suppan. The...

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12.22.2006
A Message From Brian Sabean
Happy Holidays to all you punks, lunatic fringers, dead-enders, whiners, unbelievers, and season-ticket holders. May you get Steve Trachsel's used jockstrap from the 1998 one-game playoff in your stocking....

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12.26.2006
R.I.P. James Brown
The Godfather of Soul. The Hardest Working Man in Show Business. Mr. Dynamite. Soul Brother No. 1. The Baddest of the Bad, The Coolest of the Cool. James Brown, now playing every night at the big Apollo Theater in the...

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12.27.2006
When Barry Met Barry
Well, well, well. Lookee here. The Giants have confounded everyone by finally overpaying in a grand royal way for a top-line free agent. Welcome, Barry Zito. ESPN's Peter Gammons says the contract is seven years, $126 million, which averages to...

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12.28.2006
Zito Contract Details
* If Zito pitches 600 innings over the last three years of the agreement, 400 innings over the last two or 200 in the final year of the deal, he can either exercise a player option or opt out of...

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12.29.2006
Past v. Future
A longtime reader expressed surprise in the comments (which I'm trying to fix, by the way, to avoid the dreaded comment spam) that I wasn't so worked up about the Zito news. Like Grant over at the McChronic, my mind...

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