TheGodFresco
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damn, tough loss
Official 2011 San Francisco Giants Season Thread (86-76) 2nd Place in NL West
- Thread in 'Sports & Training' Thread starter Started by tim lincecum,
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lightweight champion
Banned
- Jun 23, 2007
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How about Casilla?
- Nov 20, 2007
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womp womp womp
- Mar 18, 2009
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I'm not the guy who normally defends Casilla, but I think Bochy left him in for too long.
- Mar 18, 2009
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I'm not the guy who normally defends Casilla, but I think Bochy left him in for too long.
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womp womp womp
- Dec 16, 2005
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I think Casilla is the most probable candidate to get traded for a 2b or C. Maybe affeldt since he's in a contract year. I don't see romo or anyone else from the pen getting moved.
Going to the game tonight, hoping Timmy gets himself together. Its about to be Orange Friday in oakland, lol.
Going to the game tonight, hoping Timmy gets himself together. Its about to be Orange Friday in oakland, lol.
- Dec 16, 2005
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I think Casilla is the most probable candidate to get traded for a 2b or C. Maybe affeldt since he's in a contract year. I don't see romo or anyone else from the pen getting moved.
Going to the game tonight, hoping Timmy gets himself together. Its about to be Orange Friday in oakland, lol.
Going to the game tonight, hoping Timmy gets himself together. Its about to be Orange Friday in oakland, lol.
- Sep 15, 2009
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Affeldt and Romo have the highest trade value out of the pen though. Casilla is a decent RP but youre going to have to give up something of value to get anybody decent.
- Sep 15, 2009
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Affeldt and Romo have the highest trade value out of the pen though. Casilla is a decent RP but youre going to have to give up something of value to get anybody decent.
- Sep 6, 2007
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Here's what I was talking about earlier.
- Sep 6, 2007
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Here's what I was talking about earlier.
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A baseball man who speaks regularly with Giants GM Brian Sabean says that under normal circumstances, he would have a hard time envisioning Sabean trading for Jose Reyes, assuming he's even made available. Why? "I don't know that Jose Reyes is his type of guy because he plays when he wants to. Or that's the perception from the outside, anyway. And nobody hates players like that more than [Sabean] does."
But the same source says this might be a year in which Sabean "might do something like that that would have been against his principles in the past." One reason is that Reyes is an incredibly motivated player these days, with his free-agent payday approaching. The other? "Winning the World Series can really liberate you," the source said. "In the past, that would have been a long shot. But winning gives you the freedom to take chances to do something you haven't done before."
and the temptation continues for sabean
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A baseball man who speaks regularly with Giants GM Brian Sabean says that under normal circumstances, he would have a hard time envisioning Sabean trading for Jose Reyes, assuming he's even made available. Why? "I don't know that Jose Reyes is his type of guy because he plays when he wants to. Or that's the perception from the outside, anyway. And nobody hates players like that more than [Sabean] does."
But the same source says this might be a year in which Sabean "might do something like that that would have been against his principles in the past." One reason is that Reyes is an incredibly motivated player these days, with his free-agent payday approaching. The other? "Winning the World Series can really liberate you," the source said. "In the past, that would have been a long shot. But winning gives you the freedom to take chances to do something you haven't done before."
and the temptation continues for sabean
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[/h1][h1]Nowhere men[/h1][h3]Clock is ticking: Oakland A's have an expiring lease and no deal for a new stadium[/h3]
By Howard Bryant
ESPN.com
Archive
After 43 years, the Athletics say Oakland represents the past and the future lies in San Jose. The San Francisco Giants believe San Jose belongs to them. For more than two years, Bud Selig has not made a decision, but the clock is ticking on a team that has nowhere to go.
NEAR THE END OF LAST SUMMER, Carl Guardino, the 49-year-old president of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, sent a letter to baseball commissioner Bud Selig. Guardino is from San Jose, born and raised, attended the now-defunct Blackford High School and then stayed home for college at San Jose State University. As a kid, he watched the old minor league San Jose Missions. As a man he remembers his blue-collar childhood: packing picnic baskets of tuna sandwiches in the family's wood-paneled station wagon in the late 1960s and early '70s to drive to Candlestick Park to watch the San Francisco Giants.
Guardino approached Selig not as a fan but as an advocate of the third-largest city in California (behind Los Angeles and San Diego) and the 10th-largest city in the nation to make an argument: his San Jose, long ago a dusty San Francisco outpost, now had been grown up for 20 years -- the city of nearly a million people and the heart of the technology revolution ready to support a major league team bearing its name. His appeal contained personal passion but more importantly real financial muscle: seventy-five of Silicon Valley's top CEOs, representing more than a trillion dollars of corporate and personal wealth, signed Guardino's letter as a show of force of commitment to use their combined power to lure the beleaguered Oakland A's to San Jose.
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360 Architects Conceptual plans for the A's proposed ballpark in San Jose. For more images, please visit the photo gallery.
Signed by the heads of some of Silicon Valley's most powerful and recognizable technology companies -- Cisco, Adobe, Yahoo! and eBay, among others -- the letter was intended to stoke the tantalizing prospects of more baseball growth: luxury suites, a new 34,000-seat baseball stadium and an exciting and healthy new start for the A's.
The letter went out Sept. 8, 2010, but Guardino's return mailbox has been empty ever since.
"It's been nearly a year with no response from the commissioner," Guardino said of his letter to Selig. "We followed up with email, and nothing, not even a courtesy response. We'll send it FedEx next time.
"What did it tell me?" he added. "It told me it must be nice to run a monopoly."
THAT MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL has prevented the Oakland A's from moving 35 miles to the south to a potentially more prosperous future provides a rare glimpse of the country-club politics of a monopoly more than a century old and to a certain extent of the unintended price for some of its beneficiaries. Outside of stating that the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum is unfit for the long-term future of the club, Selig has never ruled definitively on whether he would allow the Athletics to pursue relocating to San Jose, nor has he ever expressed unequivocal support for their existence or a concrete plan for the future of a team that has been part of the American League since 1901.
For 13 years, the A's have wanted to move to Santa Clara County, home to Silicon Valley, the city of San Jose and some of the wealthiest corporations in the world. And for each of those years the Giants -- because of a loose, gentlemen's agreement between the two teams 20 years ago allowing the Giants rights to the territory for a ballpark that was never built -- have maintained that Major League rules prohibit any major league club from moving into their territory.
ESPN.com
The ultimate decision of whether the A's will be allowed to move to San Jose belongs to Bud Selig alone, but pressure has created a four-way, high-stakes game of chicken between Selig and the A's, the A's and the Giants, Selig and San Jose and Wolff and Oakland. The one absolute to the convolution is that the Oakland A's are cornered -- to the south by Selig and in Oakland by the combination of Wolff's conviction that no workable site exists in the city and an expiring lease in a stadium that is unlikely to be renewed while Wolff intimates that he wants to leave town.
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[h1]
[/h1][h1]Nowhere men[/h1][h3]Clock is ticking: Oakland A's have an expiring lease and no deal for a new stadium[/h3]
ESPN.com
Archive
After 43 years, the Athletics say Oakland represents the past and the future lies in San Jose. The San Francisco Giants believe San Jose belongs to them. For more than two years, Bud Selig has not made a decision, but the clock is ticking on a team that has nowhere to go.
NEAR THE END OF LAST SUMMER, Carl Guardino, the 49-year-old president of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, sent a letter to baseball commissioner Bud Selig. Guardino is from San Jose, born and raised, attended the now-defunct Blackford High School and then stayed home for college at San Jose State University. As a kid, he watched the old minor league San Jose Missions. As a man he remembers his blue-collar childhood: packing picnic baskets of tuna sandwiches in the family's wood-paneled station wagon in the late 1960s and early '70s to drive to Candlestick Park to watch the San Francisco Giants.
Guardino approached Selig not as a fan but as an advocate of the third-largest city in California (behind Los Angeles and San Diego) and the 10th-largest city in the nation to make an argument: his San Jose, long ago a dusty San Francisco outpost, now had been grown up for 20 years -- the city of nearly a million people and the heart of the technology revolution ready to support a major league team bearing its name. His appeal contained personal passion but more importantly real financial muscle: seventy-five of Silicon Valley's top CEOs, representing more than a trillion dollars of corporate and personal wealth, signed Guardino's letter as a show of force of commitment to use their combined power to lure the beleaguered Oakland A's to San Jose.
http:///sports.espn.go.com/espn/gallery/enlargePhoto?id=6672852&story=6665421">http://sports.espn.go.com...672852&...idth=640,height=550,scrollbars=no,noresize'); return false;" href="http://niketalk.yuku.com/editor/bypass/blank.htm#">[+] Enlarge
360 Architects Conceptual plans for the A's proposed ballpark in San Jose. For more images, please visit the photo gallery.
Signed by the heads of some of Silicon Valley's most powerful and recognizable technology companies -- Cisco, Adobe, Yahoo! and eBay, among others -- the letter was intended to stoke the tantalizing prospects of more baseball growth: luxury suites, a new 34,000-seat baseball stadium and an exciting and healthy new start for the A's.
The letter went out Sept. 8, 2010, but Guardino's return mailbox has been empty ever since.
"It's been nearly a year with no response from the commissioner," Guardino said of his letter to Selig. "We followed up with email, and nothing, not even a courtesy response. We'll send it FedEx next time.
"What did it tell me?" he added. "It told me it must be nice to run a monopoly."
THAT MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL has prevented the Oakland A's from moving 35 miles to the south to a potentially more prosperous future provides a rare glimpse of the country-club politics of a monopoly more than a century old and to a certain extent of the unintended price for some of its beneficiaries. Outside of stating that the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum is unfit for the long-term future of the club, Selig has never ruled definitively on whether he would allow the Athletics to pursue relocating to San Jose, nor has he ever expressed unequivocal support for their existence or a concrete plan for the future of a team that has been part of the American League since 1901.
For 13 years, the A's have wanted to move to Santa Clara County, home to Silicon Valley, the city of San Jose and some of the wealthiest corporations in the world. And for each of those years the Giants -- because of a loose, gentlemen's agreement between the two teams 20 years ago allowing the Giants rights to the territory for a ballpark that was never built -- have maintained that Major League rules prohibit any major league club from moving into their territory.
ESPN.com
The ultimate decision of whether the A's will be allowed to move to San Jose belongs to Bud Selig alone, but pressure has created a four-way, high-stakes game of chicken between Selig and the A's, the A's and the Giants, Selig and San Jose and Wolff and Oakland. The one absolute to the convolution is that the Oakland A's are cornered -- to the south by Selig and in Oakland by the combination of Wolff's conviction that no workable site exists in the city and an expiring lease in a stadium that is unlikely to be renewed while Wolff intimates that he wants to leave town.
- Jul 5, 2006
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Tough loss last night but they need to shake it off and handle business this weekend. No excuses to lose to Oakland the way they're playing right now even if they have won 2 straight.
- Jul 5, 2006
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Tough loss last night but they need to shake it off and handle business this weekend. No excuses to lose to Oakland the way they're playing right now even if they have won 2 straight.
TheGodFresco
formerly gsdoubleu
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one of the longest articles posted up there
TheGodFresco
formerly gsdoubleu
- Aug 31, 2007
- 24,478
- 2,308
one of the longest articles posted up there
- Mar 16, 2008
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i always thought those yellow jerseys were kinda cool
lets go tim
lets go tim
