More time with the family - HA!
It never fails. Any time anyone leaves a job and wants to convey the impression that they are leaving of their own accord, they inevitably say that they want to spend more time with the family. That's a statement always taken at face value -- even though it's at odds with most people's experience.
In any case, Peter Magowan trotted out that excuse today to explain why he's ditching the Giants. He also says that he wishes he had signed Vlad in 2003. Well, Peter, let me go record as saying that I wish that I were hanging out with Mila Kunis and Kristen Bell in Hawaii like Jason Segel's character in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."
I realize that I should be grateful to Magowan for keeping baseball in San Francisco and building the park but frankly, I'm a little annoyed by all this. I'm really bothered over Magowan's lack of gratitude to the one guy who he should be thanking. I'm talking about his class-free willingness to keep throwing Barry Bonds under the bus -- when it's Bonds who was the major reason why Magowan was as successful as he was:
When asked if he would have done anything differently with Bonds, Magowan said, "Yeah, probably sure."
That's what reporters want to hear, even now -- that BONDS IS EVIL PERSONIFIED. The SF Chronicle's clueless Gwen Knapp, who's always hated Bonds, uses some pretzel logic to say that Magowan was "defending" Bonds -- "I'm probably more aware of what Barry brought to the franchise than anybody. The first thing I'm going to say he brought is the last thing that anybody ever seems to mention, which is, he made us a winner. That's hard, it seems, for a lot of people to write."
My snarky comment -- No, Gwen, he's simply stating the obvious, while still wanting to have it both ways and say he would have done things differently with Bonds. "Defending" Bonds would amount to either giving him a job or at the least, not continuning to give the weasel answer that "Oh, we wish that we could get into our time machine and change things."
In any case, Peter Magowan trotted out that excuse today to explain why he's ditching the Giants. He also says that he wishes he had signed Vlad in 2003. Well, Peter, let me go record as saying that I wish that I were hanging out with Mila Kunis and Kristen Bell in Hawaii like Jason Segel's character in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."
I realize that I should be grateful to Magowan for keeping baseball in San Francisco and building the park but frankly, I'm a little annoyed by all this. I'm really bothered over Magowan's lack of gratitude to the one guy who he should be thanking. I'm talking about his class-free willingness to keep throwing Barry Bonds under the bus -- when it's Bonds who was the major reason why Magowan was as successful as he was:
When asked if he would have done anything differently with Bonds, Magowan said, "Yeah, probably sure."
That's what reporters want to hear, even now -- that BONDS IS EVIL PERSONIFIED. The SF Chronicle's clueless Gwen Knapp, who's always hated Bonds, uses some pretzel logic to say that Magowan was "defending" Bonds -- "I'm probably more aware of what Barry brought to the franchise than anybody. The first thing I'm going to say he brought is the last thing that anybody ever seems to mention, which is, he made us a winner. That's hard, it seems, for a lot of people to write."
My snarky comment -- No, Gwen, he's simply stating the obvious, while still wanting to have it both ways and say he would have done things differently with Bonds. "Defending" Bonds would amount to either giving him a job or at the least, not continuning to give the weasel answer that "Oh, we wish that we could get into our time machine and change things."
posted by Big D at 3:33 PM
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