10 Years of Charmed Lies Finally Catching Up with Giants?

Kids from my generation were taught to 'save for the future,'  but that philosophy  no longer seems apt today whether it be   government budgeting or a baseball team like the Giants stocking their minor leagues for the future.  

The San Francisco Giants'  'live for today' philosophy has come back to bite them.

With the return of former Giants 1st round draft pick now playing for Mets-the result of the Giants trade for Carlos Beltran in 2011 - Zack  Wheeler has made that trade and similar deals look bad for Giants .  Only one of two big names GM Sabean has gone after, Carlos Beltran, was  of little help to the Giants drive towards a pennant in 2011 but he's gone now  and the Giants lost the top prospect who could be a much needed starter today - and have nothing to show for the loss of Wheeler, now. This and similar deals have left their minor league resources in shambles.

In fact Beltran was one of only two bonifide stars the Giants acquired in recent years and the other, Melky Cabrera , was bounced for drug  use after leading the Giants  to the playoffs despite being out the second half of season. His replacement, in effect, Marcos Scutaro, a friend and fellow countryman from Venezuela, continued Cabreras ' unlikely .350 average
after only hitting .260 first half of season at Colorado -this for a 37 year old who had never hit over .299 ; he also cut his strikeouts in half after coming to the Giants. Yes, we ARE  inferring that Scutaro was getting 'help', in our opinion,  ala Cabrera - and likely others on the Giants- as chronicled in these pages ant others that were inexplicably removed from the Internet.
Looking back at the World Series years it is very unusual to see a team go all the way with journeymen players in their twilight years brought in who suddenly hit 30-50 points above their career averages -and some with power. Remember Huff. Burl, Ross ,Renteria, Uribe, Guillen and Mota- the latter two also let go for drug use with the Giants - AND BEFORE!

The Giants had three players busted during their World Series years which makes one wonder how many more have gotten away with PED use in this permissive era.
Only four players were busted last year - two of them on the Giants - for being what  Balco and PED expert, Victor Conte, calleld 'dumb and dumber' to get caught (the new designer testosterone can be out of one's system in hours). The Giants  had no problem bringing back Mota twice and were leaning to bring back Cabrera but for negative reaction to his   'Internet' excuse for his PEDs and running out on fellow players without saying goodbye.  All above mentioned players either retired or had major  drop offs with other teams after leaving the Giants .    Start connecting the dots, er, PEDs...

The 2012 Giants basically pulled off the same stunt with an almost completely different cast of characters.   Again,  journeymen  cast-offs were brought in and had unlikely career years  -   Scutaro, Pagan,  Blanco,    Mijares- all new 'culprits'  since 2010 . Pure coincidence?Not. Only Sandoval was a holdover, among the hitters playing over their career numbers.


Other items rankle us.. .. We listen to all the major league announcers and must say Giants announcers , accross the board, are the most self serving 'homers' of all. They are constantly questioning umpire calls -  of course ,usually those   that go against the Giants. They are hired by the Giants, and obviously are part of the 'Giants defense team'  that don't dare talk against the home boys. And we wonder how much longer  we  will continue  to be told of more consecutive 'sellouts '  even as we notice  large  blocks of empty seats , more and more along with  stepped up advertising, half price and promo tickets.  not to mention  the Giants ballot stuffing All Star campaigns including effort to put   a .270 hitting Pence into the All Star game.
 

I really was beginning to think that Kansas City Royals were the Giants  AAA minor league team where  Sabean and co.  would bring up  marginal players  from this  'Melky school'  - and wouldn't have been surprised to see another World Series this year with  such machinations but now it  looks like he may have run out of   K. C.  and  Venezuelan 'talent'. But wait . Flash. True to form, looks like the Giants  just picked up Jeff Franquer , a  .260 hitter from KC.   Watch him suddenly hit .290 or better with the Giants..


We hate to think where the Giants would be this year without the PEDs, in our blunt, researched opinion . (Yes, we have the numbers, even if they were taken down along with our website.)  They got away with two World Series , already, without nary a superstar - and  two almost completely different lineups - and it's finally caught up with them



As for the latest Giants news , re. pitcher Chad Goudin and his hospital brush with fame, it just goes with the territory (besides his sudden , elevated pitching velocity and success). The Giants continue to bring in players with questionable backgrounds   - not all - but many like Cabrera, Mota, Guillen and now Goudin  - and those are only the ones who've been caught doing things of late...   And, this stuff isn't new. Remember , during the Bonds era it wasn't only Bonds but Santiago, Aurelia, Williams, Bernard, etc - over 20 indicted or associated PED users (10 in Mitchell report, alone) , by far more than on any other team.  A simple screening of players' characters would seem a routine procedure but   that might upset the whole Giants'  scheme   and leave them with few players to draw from - and a losing team.

Even if  local sportswriters  turn a blind eye, it looks as though justice may finally win out after the Giants' decade - long run of deceipt , in our  opinion. Maybe traditional, HONEST, baseball may have a chance again for us old school fans. Sure, there are other players in the game using PEDs, but it's never been as widespread as with  the Giants, a team that has gone out of its way to 'look the other way '  from Bonds to Cabrera, for over a decade.

We have some other damaging info, readily available on the internet or in the news,, where we acquire all of our information. We will hold this back for now but  it's VERY uncomforting to us old time fans brought up on Mays and McCovey and chewing tobacco. 


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Giants Welcoming back Two Time Offender Mota Must Make Purists Wonder about Giants, Baseball Today

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Giants Welcoming back Two Time Offender Mota Must Make Purists Wonder about Giants, Baseball Today

In light of the SF Giants reactivating Guillermo 'I did not read the label on the cough medicine'  Mota following his
second drug violation and 100 game suspension, baseball purists must
question how the Giants can get away or have the balls to keep taking
on known drug users or reputed ones. And they're winning, why of course, with players other teams respectfully turned away. Meanwhile the Giants continue to win and affect other teams' chances, eg Arizona Dbacks,  with tainted players while baseball turns it's head (with rare exception, ieKirk Gibson).

It's true that the average modern baseball fan is not as concerned with such
infractions if a player is entertaining him . Witness Barry Bonds'
10 year steriod career when the Giants and fans totally supported their
meal ticket while getting rid of players and management who didn't subscribe to the idea, eg best natural team player Jeff Kent and team head Bill Neucomb.

SF Giants Continue Promoting, Thriving with Drugs in Baseball with Mota Activation

Giants management claims ignorance when acquiring these tainted players, believing that MLB should do the screening.  If other teams let such players as Cabrera get away for a player like Jonathan Sanchez one has to know something is going on; then, looking at the numbers and finding Cabrera's sudden resurgence really says something. So much for due dilligence on the part of GM Sabean. Meanwhile the Gaints are winning with these players other teams had the respect to turn away. Is it fair to other teams? No. Does it make the Giants and baseball a laughing stock to old school baseball players and fans? Yes. But does anyone say or do anything about it? No. 

From 2000 on the team has been rampant with convicted and suspected steroid users
 (in a time before advanced testing was adopted), eg Santiago, Benitas, Bernard
in addidtion to Bonds. One must wonder how many others had gone undetected.

the Giants rode their major League leading Drug reputation into the world series
in 2002 after acquiring another convicted drug offender, Jose guillen. After he
came to the team, we saw a sudden spike of homeruns and hitting by the giants,
with newly acquired Cody Ross hitting 8 homers in a short span and several in the playoffs.
Then there were others with equally surprising numbers, like Jose uribe , Renteria and the
aforementioned convicted Mota. NOte the Dominican connection, and most of the
s8uccess happening after fellow dominican Guillen joined the team in August.
Guillen alone had several game winning hits, enough by himself to make up the
one game margin the Ginats needed to beat out San Diego to the playoffs in 2010.

This year the trend contines with Mota and another Dominican, Joaquin Arias
outhitting the league since the Allstar break. Arias, who had never hit a homerun
in his prevous 2,000 at bats over five seasons has already hit three in the
homer unfriendly San Franciso At&t Park. His 12 doubles are double the most he ever
hit in a single season prior.

but is having a career year with 8 homers and 29 doubles thru 8/31, again, in the
San Franciso ballpark unfriendly to hitters. Pagan only once hit more than
better, in the smaller NEW yORK Met's ball park.

Yet a third player, Gregor Blanco, has hit 5 homers this year in 111 games for the giants
which is more than the three he hit all his previous three years and 250 at bats, combined,
again, playing in the large ballpark, unfriendly for hitting homers.

It's all very reminiscent of the 2010 team that featured the aforementioned
number of Latin players who mysteriously became power hitters with the giants in the
large ballpark.'

The Giants are basically thumbing their nose at major league baseball. they already
have two of the five convicted drug users in 2012 in Moto and Melky Cabrera
and may well have more who have gone undetected. And, so what if they lsoe a player
like Cabrera.. They got a lot of victories out of his tainted player - at a reduced
cost- that could
well propel them into the playoffs again.

In a statement, Bruce Bochy dismissed any problem with bringing back Mota,
saying that the Giants, unlike other teams, are more concerned with a player's well-being
and that they should be given another chance, in this case a third. GM Brian Sabean
is even more obvious, saying that it's up to major league baseball ot police the players.
Now, if Mota performs well one can assume he's still on steroids. If he is off the
steroids now, what's the point of having him around. No doubt the Giants hope he's
still using steroids -- and long enough to help get them in the playoffs. Let him get '
detected later.

And another recent acquisition, Hunter Pence , has been rumoured to be on and perhaps
now off steroids, based on his recent decline. The Giants may lose on this one unless
Pence decide to risk going back on the drug. In any case it's a win-win propositon
foir the giants. They can't lose. Get a guy cheap and hope he gets away with it
long enough to help propel the team...

So there you you go... The San Franicso Giant's Win-At-Any-cost attiutude. It'a
affecting the pennant races, favoring the Giants by far yet only Arizona manager
Kirk Gibson has brought up the discrepancy... Bud Selig where are you again?

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