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It's more or less official: Peter Magowan is going to step down as head of the Giants' ownership group. I had heard something about this a couple of months ago via a friend of a friend kind of thing, but I'm not a reporter so I really didn't have a way of confirming it in any responsible way. For what it's worth, though, my source conveyed a second part of this at the time, and that's that ... [link]

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Giant Troubles
Published 5/15/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (ernest) at Blue Heaven
... ownership group, will be stepping down shortly. Shysterball thinks that Brian Sabean is headed out the door too. He suggest our old friend DePodesta as GM. But what else is he going to say? His champion -- Magowan -- is being pushed aside, and I'd bet my second born (my firstborn just learned how to fetch beer from the fridge so she's currently indispensable) that Sabean's butt is going to be on the unemployment line before the All-Star break.Hat Tip: ShysterBall:

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