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We Have A Champion!
We Have A Champion!
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a Worst GM Champion! It's the Giants' Brian Sabean in a walk, as he easily defeats Houston's Ed Wade , 215-52. Congratulations, Giants fans! I didn't intentionally schedule this competition for the Giants-Pirates series, but I'm glad it happened this way. If you're watching the end of the game, as I am right now, you're seeing the Pirates beat the ...
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Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Braun, Holliday, Kouzmanoff, Greene, Sabean
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — ... , I felt it was worth noting that Bucs Dugout has been running a series of polls to determine the worst GM in baseball. The finals featured Sabean easily out-distancing his opponent, Ed Wade of the Astros. ...

San Francisco SuckWatch 2008: Some Giants not sucking quite as hard as they used to suck
umpbump.com — ... but it is hard to picture him improving the team’s defense, given that their gloves were the only reasons Bocock and Burriss were anywhere near a major league ballpark, and that Vizquel is playing with a knee brace, on the heels of a major knee surgery, at age 42. The Giants have the second worst record in the majors, and are on pace for 101 losses. But Brian Sabean thinks they are still in contention, and won’t be trading any of his aging veterans for young talent. No wonder he was recently voted the worst general manager in the game today.

Reporters' Notebooks
El Lefty Malo — ... . Schulman’s retraction probably won’t get as far, in part because it doesn’t match the dominant perception of Sabean already in place. ...

Ed Wade Has About as Much Authority as a Taco Bell Manager
Walkoff Walk — ... ? Ed Wade, the skinny pencil-pushing dweeb who was the runner-up in the recent Worst GM Poll at Bucs Dugout? Please. He's just another employee in a poorly-run organization whose own manager ...

Old White Guy Hands Off Giants to Other Old White Guy
Walkoff Walk — ... So Bill, the best thing you can do right now is let the baseball people do their baseball things, keep AT&T; Park clean and keep the garlic fries hot, but most of all, fire Brian Sabean.

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