this goes out to all the hounds and followers of the milb game

gb is writing an article on how the internet has changed how fans follow the minors and how it has changed how athletes view the fans and the game 

no one has done an article on this topic yet as far as i know

if you are interested in assisting him...contact him at his facebook

he will make you famous 

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Because there is a method to his madness, or so he says in the chron interview.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/23/SPM111DN3L.DTL

When asked why he went with Castillo, Bochy offered some plausible explanations. The night before, Castillo started the eventual winning rally with an infield single and had an extra-base hit stolen by a poor umpiring call. On Friday and Saturday, Castillo made roughly 1,000 feet of outs on three opposite-field flyballs to the warning track.

"He's got power. He's an intriguing player," Bochy said. "He runs fairly well. I think he has the tools to be an everyday player. Now, that's up to him. I think he's improved his work ethic since he's been here. I think he sees this as a great opportunity."

Could Castillo be a long-term solution at third base?

"He has shown how talented he could be if he plays every day," Bochy said. "I'd like to see what he's done at the end of the year."

Please note that nowhere does bochy say that denker is being bothered by a sore knee, one of the reasons given by the guys in the booth during the series.

Talented?? Maybe if you take away his avg to less than avg fielding skills, his hate of taking a walk, and his problems hitting with men on base.

In other words, Bochy, and sabean for that matter, dont really care to use this time to evaluate the real kids on the roster. They are still looking for those wins...no matter how worthless they become.

I just cant see this guy being in the skippers position come next april.

I cant see sabean still being the gm either....but what do i know

During the game, doug mentioned that his sister would be doing a book signing at the park on the 31st.

So i googled Kellie Greenwald, and this is what i found:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=view_from_the_bay/everything_else&id=6017096

While Kellie may have Down Syndrome, she has her father's and her brother's gift of gab.

It still bugs me that Hank is no longer with the org, most likely due to baer, and that Doug may never get a shot to do pbp outside of st for possibly the same reason.

I know that this post has little to do with the goings on, on the field...just thought i would share.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7841636?MSNHPHMA

so bonds has every right to play, and everyone is innocent until proven guilty, and bonds wasnt the only one doing it....but hes a cancer??? hes the only cancer??

what about all the unamed users?

what about the owners, managers and coaches who either stayed silent or encouraged the use of ped's?

what about the media who chose not to do any serious investigation?

what about you ken?? as i recall, you were one of the head cheerleaders during the sosa/big mac hr chase. maybe its you show stay the fuck away from the baseball diamond during the 08 season.

And im so sick of everyone buying into the petit bs apology. the guy doesnt get caught, he never apologizes. and his story about why and the duration of his use still doesnt hold water. but hes no cancer.

no....just bonds

http://greenjacketsbaseball.com/news/index.html?article_id=427

smart move...stayed inside the org, with a guy who watched kelly work his magic for the past 3 seasons.

well, the minor league coaching staffs are all set...lets hope these guys are as successful as their predecessors....now lets play some ball...is it april yet?

http://media.knbr.com/knbr/1206russo.mp3

i believe he speaks for all of us

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/10/31/sports/s162204D91.DTL

now how does the number 1 ranked ump in aa fall  all the way to the bottom and get dumped...after she gets chosen to do the futures game and the hr derby?

there is something wrong here.

ya, this is a giants blog...and he was a pure yankee till the day he died, but its important to note the passing of one of the great baseball voices.

As a result of a lack of days off, extra inning games and the injury to noah, the org saw the need to bring up a 13th pitcher.

Did the dfa or place one of the vets on waivers?

Did they make a waiver trade??

No to both.

They sent Lewis back to Fresno.

This, a day after he goes 2 for 3.

This after the org leaks intel that they will be going with the kids most of the rest of the season.

How many times will we allow these guys to lie to us before we stage an armed insurection?  

Im sorry that i cannot provide a link or provide the entire conference call...this is being gleaned from multiple reports.

In an extraordinary conference call with reporters, Sabean left no doubt he was unhappy that he was forced by public opinion to consummate a trade that leaves the Giants with no experienced closer.

"The type of person or professional I am, I don't take any satisfaction in anybody's demise or inability to do his job," Sabean said. "I'll say one thing about Armando. He was strong enough to be a whipping boy.

"The first game here (in New York) we had three players who were not available. That was not Armando's fault. Tonight we had three hits and looked dead as a doornail. That was not Armando's fault. We are at a crossroads in my mind, and apparently the fans, the press and some people in the clubhouse felt he needed to go.

"Now we're going to find out what they're made of. We'll see who's strong enough to be the whipping boy now. ... We're going to find out who, when and how we're going to step up. Right now, as we speak, we're heading closer to last place than first place. I don't know that that was Armando Benitez's fault."

Sabean also added this about mando:

"He's been hounded by the media, the fans and some teammates,"

so lets consider his angry and frustrated words. in mr sabean's fantasy world, the press and the fans are placing the teams woes solely on the back of mando.

now if the fans and press are represented by those few idiots on knbr, that would be true...but they are not. listening to razer state over and over that all this team needs is a bat, and the only thing holding this team back from going far into the playoffs was mando, was idiocy at its finest. but that is off topic...back to my point

also, forget that sabean rewrites history and neglects to note mando's comments about his teammates to the press, or that on tuesday night, he didnt seem so much into being a whipping boy...for that isnt the point of this thread either.

it was brian sabean that put this aging and injury prone team together. it was brian sabean who apparently never created a strategy for a post bonds era. it was brian sabean that drafted and put together a farm system that in eleven years has not developed one impact player. it was brian sabean who chose to trade young pitchers for over the hill ones and/or 4 month to 1 year position player rentals. it was brian sabean that chose to not pursue vlad so as to fill his infield with players like el fatso and neifi. it was brian sabean that chose to badmouth his own prospect, elli in the press and then proceed to sign dirty sanchez (he of the stone hands and no stick).

if brian really wants to know who the next whipping boy is going to be...he only needs to look in the mirror.

and if brian sabean wishes to place this move squarely on the shoulders of the media and the fans, then by all rights, we are the new gm of the giants.

and as the new gm, i will happily accept mr sabean's resignation. hey brian...see...i can read between the lines.

youre fired  

http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=9474a60c-584b-4a39-b390-e11c4e469fea

team way behind on rent...the plans to resod the field may need to be scrapped

this is not gonna make the big club very happy, as dodd's dimensions cause havoc with hitters and skew pitcher's stats

the future does not look bright for our aa affilliate

the boys went and did it and got hitched during the offseason

wonder if they are gonna shlep the wives to fresno next season.

msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/6068622?FSO1&ATT=HMA

ya...this isnt a real diary...just breaking news...but it means girardi is still available...sabean should interview him

Against the Boise Hawks.

Does it on 33 pitches....no walks...gave up one hit (single)

Burriss also made a very good play on a bad hop at short.

You can watch the replay after the game is over by going to the hawks milb site.

He has a nasty curve and the hawks batters couldnt keep up with his fastball either.

http://www.fresnobee.com/sports/grizzlies/story/12521964p-13236119c.html

kudos to bbonds4 from the sfgiants.com board for allerting us to this link.

aother reason to clean house and get rid of sabean and tidrow.

Timothy Lincecum....5'11'' 170lbs rt handed pitcher who led the pac 10 in k's...unorthodox delivery....said to be seen as a short reliver, possible closer material.

Drabek fell all the way to 18th.

Sorry, I think we made a mistake.

Its being reported throughout the media that baseball has come to terms with the umpires association. The umps are getting a raise in the per diem and a 100 dollar/month raise in salary. No mention is being made about the health care issue. Umps will reportedly be back to work on June 12.

Thank god I say because it has been widely reported that the replacement umps have been showing a home bias regarding k's and bb's

Thank god because the aaa umps will finally get some work and when they end up replacing vacationing umps in the bigs they will have already seen games.

Thank god because now the guys on the farm can be justly evaluated.

Thank god because the scabs were frequently losing control of the games.  

This is no joke....tonight in reading, the defenders and the baby phoolies had a knock down, drag out, fists flying fight...after bean balls flew from both sides pitchers (5 in all) this isnt the first game this has occured in...the same thing happened in fresno....and it is happening with more frequency throughout all of the milb.

The current scab umps are losing control of these games, and someone is going to get seriously hurt, possibly costing a career.

Umps are important to the game....good umps are important to the development of players in the farm system.

The milb umps give up as much as minor leaguers do, and they have a very responsible and important job...with little or no reward at the end of their service, as very few will ever get to the bigs, as most mlb umps stay for at least 20 years.

Milb umps are payed a pittance and a tiny per diem...and they havent had a raise in either for years, and are now being asked to take a larger deductable for health insurance.

Write your local teams...write to the milb...tell them to settle...before its too late and something worse happens than what occured tonight.

2 appeals??????

I am sorry, but that run scored.

The fix is in to get the USA into the finals....and that stinks

http://expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=11942

Now Mr. Ferriss may be full of bull, and attempting to toot his own horn to drum up clients and media exposure, but if what he says is true, it brings even more question into the "facts" presented regarding Bond's ped use.

yes this was a banged up team.

yes it was an old team.

yes the pitching blew for most of the season.

but alou isnt a motivator, and while at times a very good on field general....many of his pitching moves are laffable.

hes old, stubborn, and im sorry....but the krug debacle showed an evil side to the man.

its time for new blood.

giants may be able to win the west next year....but they wont go deep in the playoffs with alou at the helm  

Before the Giants came from behind to beat Colorado 4-3, general manager Brian Sabean revealed Barry Bonds has taken light batting practice for the last couple of days in Los Angeles, the first time he officially has hit off a pitcher since spring training. Sabean learned about the development in a conversation with Dr. Lewis Yocum, who is overseeing Bonds' rehabilitation from three right-knee surgeries.

"The knee was tolerant. He was sore, the obvious places being in the upper torso, etc., but it's a good first step toward maybe getting back to baseball activities soon," Sabean said, adding he did not know exactly what this means "in the greater scheme of things."

whoo hoo.....another tease

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2133987

the most successful lefty in the history of the giants org

its a sad sendoff

good luck woody

Source: The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec)

 February 19, 2000 - G1

"Alou wouldn't mind having Rocker," by JACK TODD

 It was Felipe Alou's turn to smile yesterday.
 After the media mob here
 had waited through intermittent showers from 8
 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.,
 Alou finally turned up for the annual staff
 meeting that follows the
 team physicals and pronounced himself as happy
 with the changes in the
entire situation here as everyone else.

 Then he dropped a few comments that will be heard
 around the baseball
 world concerning John Rocker, the Atlanta Braves
 reliever whose name
 has become synonymous with ''bone-headed racist
 comments made to
 Sports Illustrated.''

 Alou repeated his earlier statement, made in
 Montreal during the winter caravan, to the effect that Rocker could play for him.

 ''I don't mind Rocker,'' Alou said. ''Y'know that
 old foreign stranger
 Rocker was talking about? Well - that's me. But I
 love his fastball
 and I don't believe that kid was trying to put
 anyone down. I think he
 was just frustrated. I did a poll around, some of
 the Dominicans who were his teammates in the     minors, and they were shocked that he would say those things."

for now, he speaks for god

Alou said he awoke at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday and had a feeling that maybe he should defuse the issue, but then he was told about the Tuesday morning-show incident and changed his mind.

"God does not allow anyone to make fun of his children or laugh at his children. God won't tolerate that," Alou said. "It's ridiculous that all of this was brought about by those guys. I didn't start this. He did. Anybody who wants to repent after making a statement like that has to understand that payback is going to come sooner or later."

god has punished the heathen scum, and all is right in alous world

this is very, very scary, and very, very sad  

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/10/KNBR.TMP

alou got his way...all voices of dissention have been stifled

i hope the christian in alou is satisfied...he cost a man his job