Let the Off Season Begin

[Stokes1931]

Congrats to the Braves. What a smackdown tonight.

 

[LHG]

Glad to see they won it. They make room for the Angels to make the top 15 championship draft list. Weird.

 

[tzill]

Lesson: its hard to win a WS without trashcans or shortened seasons.

 

[LHG]

Glad to see they won it. They make room for the Angels to make the top 15 championship draft list. Weird.

That was supposed to be "championship drought list".

 

[calsnowskier]

That was supposed to be "championship drought list".

I was wondering what you meant by that…

 

[Robotech]

I knew it was possible, but I was not mentally prepared for this.

 

[tzill]

Yup. I thought he'd play one more year, but I guess not.

G-dspeed, Buster...you are one of the Greatest Giants Ever.

More money for FAs I guess. Casali and Bart in 2022.

 

[calsnowskier]

Wow. I too thought it a possibility, but didn’t REALLY expect it to happen (at the gut level).

And since he is retiring, that means the Giants are not on the hook for the buyout, unless they basically choose to give it to him.

 

[Robotech]

Yup. I thought he'd play one more year, but I guess not.

G-dspeed, Buster...you are one of the Greatest Giants Ever.

More money for FAs I guess. Casali and Bart in 2022.

With him showing this year that he's still got it and the team looking strong, I was being optimistic and thinking that he'd give it one more go. With the Giants losing to the Dodgers, Dusty coming up short again (which I know some here are happy about), and Buster retiring, this has been a tough three weeks.

 

[LHG]

With him showing this year that he's still got it and the team looking strong, I was being optimistic and thinking that he'd give it one more go. With the Giants losing to the Dodgers, Dusty coming up short again (which I know some here are happy about), and Buster retiring, this has been a tough three weeks.

I'm with you on that, except I was okay that the Braves won. I would like to see Dusty get a title but its hard to root for him as manager of the Astros. Not so much about the cheating (most members who did that are gone) but because the Astros have a recent title and I like to root for teams with long droughts if the Giants aren't in contention.

 

[tzill]

Wow. I too thought it a possibility, but didn’t REALLY expect it to happen (at the gut level).

And since he is retiring, that means the Giants are not on the hook for the buyout, unless they basically choose to give it to him.

and even if they did that, it wouldn't be on their official payroll. But, I'd guess Buster wouldn't take it anyway.

 

[calsnowskier]

Not worthy of its own thread, but Craw collected his 4th Gold Glove today.

 

[pachyderm]

Not worthy of its own thread, but Craw collected his 4th Gold Glove today.

Really?

His fourth, ties him with J.T. Snow and puts him one behind Bonds?

For the record, Willie Mays has 12.

 

[tzill]

Really?

His fourth, ties him with J.T. Snow and puts him one behind Bonds?

For the record, Willie Mays has 12.

Craw is 3x the defender The Barry ever was, and nobody has ever been as good as #24.

 

[calsnowskier]

Craw is 3x the defender The Barry ever was, and nobody has ever been as good as #24.

I never saw Jack Maguire play myself. Was he really that good?

 

[tzill]

I never saw Jack Maguire play myself. Was he really that good?

AJM: DAMN RIGHT I WAS!

 

[calsnowskier]

AJM: DAMN RIGHT I WAS!

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[LHG]

I never saw Jack Maguire play myself. Was he really that good?

AJM: DAMN RIGHT I WAS!

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I was starting to wonder if we were talking about Nick Lowery's uncle.

 

[calsnowskier]

No. Maguire was a 3B/OFer for the Giants in ‘50 and ‘51.

 

[tzill]

Conforto and Castellanos decline their QOs.