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Report: Magowan to Step Down from Giants Friday
Published 5/14/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Report: Magowan to Step Down from Giants Friday The San Francisco Giants will be holding a special ownership meeting on Friday, at which time, managing partner Peter Magowan will reportedly step down from the leading position within the organization. ......... Who could replace Magowan at the helm? Rumors are former Microsoft general counsel William Neukom, and principal partner and business investor John Scully.

Report: Peter Magowan To Resign As Giants' Managing Partner
Published 5/14/2008 by Rob (noreply@blogger.com) at 6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog
Maury Brown is reporting that San Francisco Giants managing partner Peter Magowan will step down from that position on Friday. Who could replace Magowan at the helm? Rumors are former Microsoft general counsel William Neukom, and principal partner and business investor John Scully. Blue Screen of Death Park? Via BTF.

Magowan Out
Published 5/15/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Craig Calcaterra) at ShysterBall
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 Sabean is a dead man walking as well, with the plan being for the new owner to couch it in terms of him simply wanting his own guy. The reality, though, is that the ownership group has wanted him gone too. Not that it matters, really. because (1) A new leader ...

Baseball Today: Thursday, May 14
Published 5/15/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... CHANGE AT THE TOP: The blog The Biz of Baseball reports Peter Magowan will step down as managing partner of the Giants. ...

Giant Troubles
Published 5/15/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (ernest) at Blue Heaven
Well, it appears the fall and folly of the SF Giants is about to reach a tipping point. Maury Brown of the Biz of Baseball writes that Peter McGowan, head of the 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: ...