Showing posts with label zito. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zito. Show all posts

Friday, August 12, 2011

Disgruntled, Drunken GM's And The Owners Who Love Them

Adam:  Boy that Pujols is awful this year, eh?

Gabe:  Keep talking like that.  Try to get some writers to say it.  Maybe his price will drop enough that the Giants can afford him after the season.

Adam:  Does Rowand's contract end this season?  Zito?  Are you freeing up some cash?

Gabe:  Neither.  Not Huff, either.  DeRosa yes.  Ross, probably.  Tejada, yes.  Although pretty much all of that money is going to go to pitchers getting raises.

Adam:  Are you possibly expanding AT&T Park?

Gabe:  No, but I'm sure they'll raise ticket prices again.  Maybe we can get a cheaper GM.

Adam:  Maybe.

Gabe:  And they're going to be putting the Copenhagen logo on the butts of all the uniforms.
Posey, sponsored

Adam:  Nice.  Posey's ass will certainly sell chew.

Gabe:  That's tweetable.

Adam:  Any chance Zito clears waivers so you can deal him to the Yankees?

Gabe:  I'm sure they'll put him on waivers and hope someone claims him like Alex Rios.

Adam:  Like some drunk GM thinking he is being funny.

Gabe:  Exactly like that.  Neal Huntington is going to wake up all hung over and see Barry Zito warming in the pen.

Adam:  My money is on Ed Wade, just three sheets to the wind one night ... wanting to screw the new ownership that he knows is going to fire him ... drunkenly leaves them with Zito as their ace.

Gabe:  That sounds altogether too plausible.  Think we can get a couple of those Phillies prospects they just got for Pence?  Maybe Wandy Rodriguez?  We can throw in Astros' fan favorite Migue Tejada.

Adam:  And maybe you could purchase the rights to Brad Ausmus from the Newark Bears (or dodgers) and throw him in too.

Gabe:  Good call.  Any way we can get Berkman in the deal?

Adam:  Maybe the corpse of Bagwell?

Gabe:  And Larry Anderson.

Adam:  Undoubtedly.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Jayson Werth: Totally Worth It

Adam: Werth has 9 RBI's ... 9 ...

Gabe: Today? Wow. Who are they playing?

Adam: No ... this season.

Gabe: Oh. That's somewhat less impressive. So I guess he figured that a Zito contract requires Zito level production.

Adam: Yep ...

Gabe: Some of the players who have more RBI than Werth: Alex Avila, Placido Polanco, Drew Stubbs, Jed Lowrie, Raul Ibanez, Darwin Barney, Milton Bradley, Cliff Pennington, Sam Fuld, Eric Hinske, Miguel Tejada, and Josh Thole.

Adam: Hinske ... that's awesome.

Gabe: Right. A bench guy, plus Bradley just got cut because of a lack of production.

Adam: Do all those guys together make more than Werth?

Gabe: They probably make more combined this year, but total contract? No way.

(PS for the stat heads: yeah, we know RBI is not a terribly good tool to evaluate a hitter's effectiveness, as it depends on so many other factors. But still ... 9.)