Good news day at SBC Park
Good News Item #1: The Giants have been chosen to host the All-Star Game in 2007. This rumor has been wafting about since last year's World Series — Major League Baseball has been champing at the bit to bring the midsummer classic to the game's most spectacular ballpark, and now they will.
Think it's a coincidence that this happens the year after Barry Bonds's contract expires? Not a chance.
Good News Item #2: The Giants announce that they've extended general manager Brian Sabean's contract through 2006, with a series of options thereafter.
Although his moves occasionally mystify me, Sabean tends to be right on target in his player assessments, and no GM in baseball works harder or smarter than he does. He's had a phenomenally active offseason, bringing in a star reliever in Armando Benitez, a new starting catcher in Mike Matheny to replace clubhouse cancer A.J. Pierzynski, a supreme defensive shortstop in Omar Vizquel, and the powerful bat of Moises Alou.
Congrats to the G-Men on both counts.
Think it's a coincidence that this happens the year after Barry Bonds's contract expires? Not a chance.
Good News Item #2: The Giants announce that they've extended general manager Brian Sabean's contract through 2006, with a series of options thereafter.
Although his moves occasionally mystify me, Sabean tends to be right on target in his player assessments, and no GM in baseball works harder or smarter than he does. He's had a phenomenally active offseason, bringing in a star reliever in Armando Benitez, a new starting catcher in Mike Matheny to replace clubhouse cancer A.J. Pierzynski, a supreme defensive shortstop in Omar Vizquel, and the powerful bat of Moises Alou.
Congrats to the G-Men on both counts.
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