What This Giants Fan is Thankful For

mlb22 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:22:39 -0000

On vacation. Don't bother me. Should the Giants trade Matt Cain for Evan Longoria, I'll tweet something super witty.

In the interim, enjoy this Thanksgiving-themed FanPost, which eliminated the need for me to write one. That's a good thing, as I was going back to the Lincecum-to-Rios well for a second straight year, and that would have brought out the Sabean-was-just-playing-around!/That-was-never-a-serious-offer crowd, who are almost as offensive as 9/11 Truthers.

Happy Thanksgiving, all. -- Grant

That the Giants are not going to be tempted to sign Johnny "his age has nothing to do with his future performance because he is so spectacular! my Scott Boras binder says so!" Damon to any contract longer than 1 hour

That Bengie Molina will not accept an offer of arbitration

That Freddy Sanchez was not overpaid at $6M/year just to be bumped to third base

That Pablo Sandoval did not eat Eugenio Velez

That Eugenio Velez will get eaten before someone makes the executive decision to make him an everyday player

That dominant pitching can get you to the playoffs in the National League

That Brian Sabean's gut has gotten big enough that it may actually inflict pain on him to kick the tires

That we won 88 games somehow, and I'm not really sure how

That Charlie Weis and Mark Mangino are in the news a whole lot right now, but NOT because they are going to be re-enacting the Chris Farley-Patrick Swayze SNL Chippendales skit. Oh wait, wrong "Giants," sorry.

That Pac Bell Park was built

That Aaron Rowand was not offered a contract extension

That no fan was injured by any of Rowand's throws this year

That PhotoShop exists

That we will not trade Matt Cain for anyone

That Keith Law received an NL Cy Young vote this year

That St. Louis fans spend so much time being the greatest fans in baseball that they forget to spend time, you know, understanding it

That 'buzzard's luck' is the only rational explanation for how we fell short of the playoffs

That I was not drinking the night Ryan Spilborghs did something that I can't really remember

That Tim Alderson and Scott Barnes are never doing to pan out

That I was there the day the Giants unveiled the Rally Rabbi

That Nate Schierholtz does not use batting gloves

That I will not hear the words 'now batting, first baseman, Jermaine Dye!' in San Francisco

That I get to read about the McCourts on a regular basis

That I have lived through two generations of "Uuuuuu... Ree-bay!"

That we are not in the AL East

That the bat we're going to acquire is not a name that's being thrown around right now, because the current options kinda suck

That we will not offer Brian Giles even a minor league contract

That next year, McCoven will be banned from writing the acronym "LOL" into any and all words possible, thus reducing thread lengths by half

That our top 4 starters will not regress next year and will, in fact, improve on the back end

That our bullpen will regress but only slightly

That Tim Lincecum's agent is not Scott Boras

That we have Kruk, Kuip, and Jon

That I got to watch JT "Big Bubble" Snow play first base

That Barry is proving to be a lot more common in the eyes of the witch-hunters (which we all knew)

That I was there for 755

That I no longer have nightmares about dropped fly balls by Gold Glovers in Florida.

That my employer will set me up with nice seats in the upper deck behind home plate for next year's playoffs in SF

That 100% of my predictions in this post will/better come true

That I get to read this blog at home and at work

That we are 99 days away from the first spring training game of 2010

That I am not a Dodgers fan

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What This Giants Fan is Thankful For