The 08 opening season is fast approaching this year, starting earlier than ever, on March 31st at 1 PM pacific at Dodgers Stadium. The MLB season seems to be starting earlier due to the A’s/Red sox MLB season opener in Japan. Now that the baseball season has begun it’s time for me to dust off the dust and start blogging more regurly again. I hope you enjoy our new design and our new poll feature we added.

The Giants as expected had slower opening day ticket sales. You can read more about it
here and about the new amnenities to the ballpark. I don’t think mutilating the Giants stadium with extra seats is actually going to help bring in more income. I been so upset over Barry leaving, that I decided I wasn’t going to buy tickets this year and probably not for a few years. Although they “expect” to sell 3 million tickets, I doubt they will even come close. I guess those were crocidile tears last year when Peter McGowan was talking about Bonds leaving. You can read more about what I mean here here Frankly I think the way the management threw Bonds under the bus acting like he never even played there, makes me disgusted.

I find it hard to even talk about the Giants in a positive light at all, when the management is so pathetic. But I have to remember to balance things out and remember it’s not all about management. The Giants have been making lousy managerial calls for years which has been frustrating to me, but I continued to be a Giants fan because there were other things I enjoyed. There is many young kids coming up in the Giants with talent and the Giants have the best sportscasters around ,Kruk and Kuip, which really energize a game. So despite a crappy management issue, there is games going to be played and I will continue to watch the games and be a Giants fan, but not with the same enthusiasm as in the past.

Giants Offseason news review:

Omar Vizquel - The Giants have re-signed Omar vizquel for 08 contract and a possible 09 option extension. In late february Omar Vizquel tore his medial meniscus in his knee, which he is still recovering.

Pedro feliz - The longest member of the team besides Bonds, who had been on the team since 2001 has finally moved on. He signed a contract with the Phillies. I can’t say I’ll miss him, no one could kill momentum in the offense better than him.

Aaron Rowand - This was the giants big major offensive acquisition in the offseason. Aaron Rowand who is an all star from the White sox signed a contract for $50 million over 5 years. He will be filling in as a center fielder starter, a much needed role. Bochy plans on making him the #5 batter, behind Molina.

Hennessey - With the closer role switching towards the end of last season to Wilson, it was hard to know what would happen to Hennesey. That became clearer when Hennessey was re signed for a 1 year 1.6 million contract. It appears Hennessey and possibly Wilson, will be playing the closers role once again for 08.

Lincecum / Cain - I had been hearing so many rumours during the offseason and at the end of 07 season about these two possibly getting traded. They are still with us and I’m very glad for that. These two have huge potential and are among the best pitchers in the game.

08 Season Prediction

Well I’ll be blunt, it looks pretty grim. If the Giants wanted to make the 08 season at least interesting, they would have kept Bonds. The pitching will continue to be strong, as we still have Cain and Lincecum and many of the good relievers we had last year. Offensively we got rid of Pedro Feliz, which is great, but Omar Vizquel and Ray Durham have been pretty weak offensively lately. We now have Rowand, but we Lost Bonds which means we have a net loss even in the core of the lineup from last year.

A surprise could happen with some of the younger crowd. If anything is going to happen we will have to watch closely at the younger players like Fred Lewis and Rajai Davis. After all the enthusiasm with the All-Star Game and Bonds breaking the record, the Giants could get away with a sucky season and still have enthusiasm and large crowds. But now that those are both gone, I and imagine many others won’t be too enthusiastic about the Giants a whole lot this year, once you get away from the glamour the Giants had been experiencing and see what the team is all about. Maybe we were spoiled compared to most other teams, but hey we had an opportunity to keep it going for another year, but Peter McGowan and his gang squashed that.