Bullet Dodges the Mariners - Zito signs with the Giants

IIRC, the Rangers line was like 70 million and the rumored Mets line was something like 75 million.

Sabean probably got itchy, heard about the M's and wanted to fold up Zito, so he threw a huge gob of money at him.

1. M's are not stuck with this albatross of a contract.  Seem's everytime I looked at a box score the 1st couple months of last year, Zito was getting shelled.  He's not worth this kind of money.
2. He's leaving the AL west.  The A's staff is a little weaker today.

Then again, it may have been percolation from my radio which was on.

This is a amazing contract.  We might have to redo some of that GM ranking we just did and push the Giants a few slots lower.

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I was really bored and doing random internet stuff.  I was looking at the Mariners Housewife blog and it isn't that bad.  I was expecting garbage but its not bad.  I won't read it often but I guess I was expecting much less.

The roster is like a bag of elbows and doorknobs and its hard to see how they'll score more runs this year than last and the pitching is not better in either the rotation or the pen.

Why should anyone care that they didn´t execute a bad contract, when all it means is that Howard preserves his bonus and the team is again in last place?  I'd rather have George Steinbrenner than these parasites.

When Bavasi and Hargrove are fired, do you honestly think that anyone that is not desparate, will try for or get one of those jobs?

A bag of them is large and noisy, but together, there is little that you can do with them that is useful.

Guillen is coming off of a signficant surgery, we'll see how he performs and if this team jumps from being second to last in runs scored in the league. I see the same damn team without the only guy who consistently could get on bag in Snelling.

Batista and Ramirez may not combine for as many innings as Meche and Pineiro as pathetic as that sounds.  Back to our number two starter, does anyone think that he'd be in baseball still if Bavasi had not offered him his current deal?

Guillen > Reed...lets see if he can throw the ball to the second baseman first and even gets on the field.  

Vidro>Everett...Difficult spot to be in to offer praise of Everett, so I won't.  Jose Vidro has seen his offensive value decline six straight years.  Seven homeruns in 504 plate appearances.  He's hurt too, bad knees, can't run, can't drive the ball any more.  You better hope they don't dump Broussard for another aging veteran to replace this latest version of Scott Speizio.

Felix '07 > Felix '06... Felix 06< Felix 05...Which is the current trend?  We all know how hard he's working this off-season and the Ms do such a wonderful job teaching young pitchers correct mechanics.  Yep, that's a sure thing.

Batista > Meche Meche was gutless and laden with bad mechanics too, but why do you think this guy is any good at all?  He gives up a lot of hits, he  walks a lot of guys.  He's going to get lit up in the AL like an M-80.  I believe his birth date, too.

Ramirez > Pineiro...maybe, but the likelihood of him getting 30 starts has got to miniscule.  When he is in there he gives up a lot of hits and homeruns.  

They're going to be behind in games a lot and they've got a very low team onbag, which doesn't do well for catching up in games.  This is much more like the 04 team, than not.  I would not make any post-season plans just yet.