October 2009 Archives

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I'm home for October, watching playoff baseball from afar. I'm already starting to rethink my rotation as we head into the Hot Stove season. In this month's installment, I'm getting ready to say goodbye to former heroes who've tried to...
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Three games to one. Three games to one. A Phillies-Yankees World Series is nearly a lock, which no doubt has Fox executives wetting their pants in anticipation. The only other time the two teams met in the Series was 1950....
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I missed this in yesterday's Chron: Carney Lansford wishes his successor good luck, because he's going to need it. Baggs talked to Lansford, too, and got quotes like this: "A major league player should not be as poor at [situational...
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If this is true, I can only say -- come on, sing it with me -- vaya con Dios, my darling. One last time: BRIAN FUCKING SABEAN IS THE REASON SMALL CHILDREN IN AFRICA DIE OF DYSENTERY!!!!!!! We'll miss you,...
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Giants hitting coach Carney Lansford was fired today. Bruce Bochy insisted Lansford wasn't the scapegoat for this year's poor hitting, but baaaaaaaaa, I say. There's talk of triple-A hitting coach Hensley "Bam-Bam" Meulens getting the nod. One reason, according to...
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By now you've all heard the Giants have re-signed Bruce Bochy and Brian Sabean to two-year contracts with a club option for 2012. By now you've all heard the screams of the Lunatic Fringe throwing themselves under the nearest T-Third...
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Wow, great playoff action! A-Rod punks Joe Nathan, the Angels pitchers shut down the Red Sox, the Rockies make the Phils nervous heading into a frigid Coors Field weekend, and Matt Holliday...thanks a lot, pal. If this comes down to...
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Still no word on Bochy and Sabean's status, but the two of them held a post-mortem press conference earlier today. Nearly the entire transcript is here, courtesy of Baggs. Thanks, Baggs, for another fantastic year of work. Thanks, too, to...
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That's the Giants' final record thanks to Pablo Sandoval's moonshot over San Diego, and it's a hell of a lot better than 76-86, which was Baseball Prospectus's smarty-pants projection on Opening Day. Based on the big fancy PECOTA computer housed...
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Please, gentlemen. Come in. Welcome back. No, no, all that is in the past. I mean it when I say welcome back. Whatever disagreements we have had are forgotten, and by disagreements I mean blog posts that I have written...
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Looks like my upcoming treatise on the pros and cons of retaining the services of Brian Sabean is moot. Both the Chron and the Merc report today that both are coming back next year. The Chron's Shea is vague, except...
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