A STARTLING CONTENTION / GM: Giants - who fall to Astros - have shot in '08

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SF Gate: Sabean thinks Giants have chance in 2008
Published 5/15/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
SF Gate: Sabean thinks Giants have chance in 2008 Sure… and “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” is going to come back and have a ten-season run. “As long as we’ve got a chance to stay in and around third place, why not?” Sabean said as he stood along the dugout rail and watched his players take batting practice. “Why wouldn’t you want to think that way? These guys think that way.”

Repeating Myself
Published 5/15/2008 by Andrew at True Blue LA: Front Page Posts
... Hanley Ramirez agrees to six year, seventy million dollar extension. Scott Kazmir signs  an up to four year extension for 39.5 million Ryan Braun about to get extended  for seven years. The Dodgers have four players signed to a guaranteed contract for 2009. --------------------------------- On a nicer note, Brian Sabean appears to be suffering from dementia . ...

Brian Sabean is Delusional
Published 5/15/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Craig Calcaterra) at ShysterBall
He thinks the Giants can contend . . . . .this season: "I think we've come a long way," Sabean said. "When you consider some of our challenges in spring training and some of the question marks, we've got to be considered one of the most improved teams in baseball."Of course Sabean fails to mention that the "challenges in spring training" and the "question marks" are attributable to his failure to develop talent, clear dead wood, and correctly evaluate where his team is on the success cycle. But what else is he going to say? His champion -- ...

Sabean on the Waterfront
Published 5/15/2008 by E.L.M. at El Lefty Malo
Uh-oh. Hank Schulman tells us in this morning’s Chronnie that Brian Sabean thinks the 2008 Giants can be contenders. No one-way ticket to Palookaville for these guys. This by itself is not a bad thing. Optimism is nice. It motivates players, and it encourages fans to come out and scream for their hometown boys. Nothing wrong with that. But when optimism gets in the way of the rebuilding process, which has gotten off to a good start, it can be foolish. Let’s run through some of Sabean’s comments and interpret them. ...

2nd & Short: Barkley's gambling may be getting out of hand
Published 5/16/2008 by Noah Love at Posted Sports : Basketball
... 40 The number of lineup variations San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy has used through 41 games this season. However, not having a settled lineup a quarter of the way through the season hasn't diminished the optimism of Bochy's boss, Giants general manager Brian Sabean, who said San Francisco is still a contender. "As long as we've got a chance to stay in and around third place, why not?" Sabean told the San Francisco Gate this week. "Why wouldn't you want to think that way?" Sabean ...

BREAKING: Brian Sabean experiences a reality that we do not
Published 5/16/2008 at Roto Arcade
This from the San Francisco Chronicle, under the headline "A Startling Contention": Sabean sees a San Francisco team that can contend. Not in two seasons, not next season, but in 2008. "As long as we've got a chance to stay in and around third place, why not?" Sabean said as he stood along the dugout rail and watched his players take batting practice ... "Between what people thought of us and how we're actually performing, I think these guys have a lot to be proud of." ...

San Francisco SuckWatch 2008: Some Giants not sucking quite as hard as they used to suck
Published 5/19/2008 by Nick Kapur at umpbump.com
... .” In the past two weeks, the San Francisco tranwreck express seems to have veered off the track of awesome HD flatscreen total suckage and back onto the track of boring, basic cable suckage. On one hand, the team is in the throes of a five-game losing streak, but on the other hand, several positive developments have occurred which have made GM Brian Sabean so giddy with optimism that he is now declaring publicly that the Giants are still in contention this year and that he will not be trading away any veterans this season. Let’s look at what has gone the Giants’ way of late… ...

Giants Fall 60 Games Out of First, Hire Hillary Clinton As Special Advisor
Published 5/21/2008 by BG (noreply@blogger.com) at West Coast Bias Sports Blog
In a stunning move, Brian Sabean and the Giants have hired long shot presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton as a Special Advisor to the team. Following up on Sabean's outrageous claims last week that the Giants can compete and win this year, Sabean stated at his hastily assembled press conference, "We here in San Francisco have a long history of self-delusion and abject stubbornness. We stood by our ...

Great Moments in Frivolity, Part II
Published 15 days ago by Craig Calcaterra at Baseball Analysts
... Giants' GM Brian Sabean announces that he thinks his team can yet contend in 2008, lauding his players for overcoming all of the "challenges" and "question marks" they faced coming out of spring training. Sabean fails to mention, however, that all of the challenges and question marks were the result of his own failure to draft and develop a position player during virtually his entire tenure as General Manager. ...