Sabean = crybaby

Apart from being incompetent, it turns out that Giants GM Brian Sabean is also a big crybaby. After being quoted accurately by the SF Chronicle's Henry Schulman about his belief that the Giants could be a contender this year, Sabean subsequently whined on a radio show about how unfair it was that the remarks were not framed in the proper context. So Schulman -- who does a pretty decent job covering the Giants day to day beat -- is forced to post a ridiculous "mea culpa" that he "cherry-picked" the comments by Sabean.

Look, the truth of the matter is that Giants fans aren't as stupid as Sabean thinks we are. We realize that the GM is going to hype the Giants. We're OK with that. Here's the thing that's painful, though: the original interview was dead-on accurate in terms of portraying how idiotic Sabean is -- asserting that he's moved toward solving the problems at first, third and left field when it's painfully obvious that he's done nothing of the sort. Had he asserted something remotely believable -- "I believe Tim Lincecum could win 25 games and Matt Cain and Jonathan Sanchez could each win 20" -- then the reaction would have been much milder.

NOTE TO SABEAN -- I'll Fed-ex some diapers over