Yesterday Yahoo Sports celebrated the close of winter meetings by labeling various teams, players, and even agents as "winners" or "losers."
The Giants, they said, were "losers."
"The heady buzz of a World Series championship seems to have the Giants believing they can bring back that ol’ gang of theirs and win again. Maybe they’ve forgotten how fortunate they were to win it all without much offense. Re-signing Aubrey Huff was fine, but bringing back Pat Burrell and signing the all-but washed up Miguel Tejada to replace Juan Uribe and Edgar Renteria were questionable moves. The Giants still need a bat, and although Bochy is hopeful Pablo Sandoval fills the bill by returning to 2009 form, the best he could report was that Kung Fu Panda had lost all of two pounds."
When the Giants won the world series, part of me knew baseball would never be as fun again. We would never really be underdogs again. We would never have cosmic justice on our side. But now I'm starting to see how this might be wrong. The baseball world's response to our championship was "oh, that was cute." Nobody takes us seriously as a defending champion. Bring it.
1. Yahoo, how, exactly, is paying Pat Burrell $1 million a questionable move? He hit 18 home runs for us last year, not bad given he didn't play with us for the first two months of the year. He slugged over .500 and drew a ton of walks. He was a clubhouse leader. And we're paying him $16 million less than the Yankees are paying for a guy who slugged .370.
2. Granted about Tejada, but not about the offense in general. The difference between Uribe and Tejada is miniscule when you factor in two extra months of Buster Posey and Burrell, four extra months of Cody Ross, and the possibility of a healthy Pablo Sandoval. And then there's the possibility of Brandon Belt, not that Yahoo has heard of him.
3. How dare you imply that Pablo losing two pounds is not a worthy accomplishment. Two pounds is a big deal! Last year, the only time Panda lost weight was when he burped. And now he's worked hard, HARD, to lose two pounds and it's only been a month since the end of the season! There are two more months to go! So at this rate, by opening day, he will have lost....hold on...carry the 5......48 pounds.
Yahoo is just a worse version of both google and ESPN.
The Giants, on the other hand, are WORLD CHAMPIONS.
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