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There's just no fit here. We don't need what you got and you are not going to over trade. I'll be surpeised if this happens.
I'd be all for a trade to the Dodgers however!
That's actually what's been floating around here as a rumor.
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Why take on a four year commitment to a mediocre at best player to fill a hole on a awful team?
IMO, acquiring Inge would be a huge mistake, far worse than Crede. He'd become another Alfonzo, just expensive and veterany enough to keep the team from looking for a real solution, but not good enough to be a net positive. It would just lock the team into another round of standing pat on mediocrity. And if the Giants did go out and get a good long-term 3B, Inge would just throw another hissy fit like he did in Detroit. If you're going to get a veteran stop-gap like Inge, at least find a guy who will be professional enough to accept a diminished role when a real solution presents itself (even if he's not necessarily happy about it).
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Why take on a four year commitment to a mediocre at best player to fill a hole on a awful team?
IMO, acquiring Inge would be a huge mistake, far worse than Crede. He'd become another Alfonzo, just expensive and veterany enough to keep the team from looking for a real solution, but not good enough to be a net positive. It would just lock the team into another round of standing pat on mediocrity. And if the Giants did go out and get a good long-term 3B, Inge would just throw another hissy fit like he did in Detroit. If you're going to get a veteran stop-gap like Inge, at least find a guy who will be professional enough to accept a diminished role when a real solution presents itself (even if he's not necessarily happy about it).
Can Billy Crystal play 3B?
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Why take on a four year commitment to a mediocre at best player to fill a hole on a awful team?
IMO, acquiring Inge would be a huge mistake, far worse than Crede. He'd become another Alfonzo, just expensive and veterany enough to keep the team from looking for a real solution, but not good enough to be a net positive. It would just lock the team into another round of standing pat on mediocrity. And if the Giants did go out and get a good long-term 3B, Inge would just throw another hissy fit like he did in Detroit. If you're going to get a veteran stop-gap like Inge, at least find a guy who will be professional enough to accept a diminished role when a real solution presents itself (even if he's not necessarily happy about it).
Can Billy Crystal play 3B?
That whole billy crystal situation just pisses me off.
Why? Were you hoping the Giants would give him a contract first?
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3/13/2008, 6:39 pm
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LOL nope... I'm just wondering why a mediocre has-been comic gets to take some swings in the bigs -- even if it's only a ST game. I think the game should mean more than celebrity whoring. I mean, seriously... who's next? George Carlin? Mister T? Webster? It just feels wrong to me. Bah!
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Didn't Garth Brooks start the "celebrity whoring " slide downhill several years ago? Didn't he play in a ST game?
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LOL nope... I'm just wondering why a mediocre has-been comic gets to take some swings in the bigs -- even if it's only a ST game. I think the game should mean more than celebrity whoring. I mean, seriously... who's next? George Carlin? Mister T? Webster? It just feels wrong to me. Bah!
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville Nine that day;
The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play,
And then when Carlin died at first, and Mister T did the same,
A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.
A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest
Clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast;
They thought, if only Webster could get but a whack at that -
We'd put up even money, now, with Webster at the bat.
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