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Giants Keep Their Ace
Now that football season and the Winter Olympics are officially over, sports fans across the country are revving up for the MLB season. Admittedly, there is a marked lack of parity in professional baseball, and even the casual fan can fairly accurately handicap the various division champions. When spring rolls around, however, baseball will inevitably be at the fore of sporting news.
During the offseason, there have been the typical free agent signings and trades that occur every year, but none were bigger than the Giants retention of Tim Lincecum. The 25-year-old two-time Cy Young award winner signed a $23 million deal that will keep him in San Francisco for two years and successfully avoided arbitration. This may sound like an exorbitant amount of money, but SF will more than likely recoup the costs through increased sales of Giants jerseys, tickets and other merchandise.
San Francisco Giants Sue Burns Dies
Sue Burns passing came quickly for the San Francisco Giants organization and will undoubtedly affect the Giants ownership structure but it is too early to know just how.
“All of baseball mourns the passing of Sue Burns,” commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement. “She and her late husband, Harmon, along with Peter Magowan and the other Giants’ investors, saved baseball in San Francisco in 1992.”
Bringing the much needed motherly touch to the game of baseball she died at the age of 58 shortly after being diagnosed with cancer. The club’s largest shareholder but oh so much more to many whom gravitated towards her in her MLB career.
“Sue was such a beautiful lady who gave us her unwavering support all the time,” Giants Manager Bruce Bochy told reporters before the Giants’ game in Pittsburgh. “These (players) were her kids.”
She will be sorely missed by both the Giants organization and everyone whos life she touched including home run king Barry Bonds.
The Big Unit Breaks through 300
Thursday evening, June, 4th 2009, marked a celebration that most likely will not come again for some time, with just the 24th pitcher in MLB history to win 300 games. Not since 1986 when the Angels’ Don Sutton, had a pitcher surpassed 300 wins but the Big Unit, Randy Johnson humbly overcame this milestone in his elustrius career ending with the San Fransisco Giants.
“To me, wins have always outweighed strikeouts because strikeouts are something that just kind of happen,”
Randy Johnson’s 300th win, postponed by rain, was carried into the 5th inning a no-hitter. His part in the win against the Washington Nationals ended after 78 pitches and 50 strikes.
Giants Barry Bonds Hits Home Run No. 756
The Giants Barry Bonds hit his 756th homer, passing the legendary Hank Aaron, he now holds Major League Baseballs record: first place on the all-time home run list.
Aaron held this reign as the MLB home run king for 33 years. Aaron has held at least a tie for the top spot on the homer list since he knotted Babe Ruth on April 4, 1974, Opening Day of that season at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium.
“Right now, I’m very happy that it’s all over with,” Bonds said long after the Nationals defeated his Giants, 8-6. “I’m really happy with my teammates. That’s the most important thing. And the fans, like I said, the fans here are my family. No one will ever take that away. No one can ever take that away.”
Bonds’ record blast came off Nationals left-hander Mike Bacsik who wasn’t born yet when Aaron’s once record-setting shot came off Dodgers left-hander Al Downing on April 8, 1974, in Atlanta. Bacsik became the 446th pitcher to allow at least one homer to Bonds during the course of the lefty-swinging slugger’s 22-year career. At 435 feet into the bleachers setting off a wild scramble for the ball.
Can San Jose Petition Its Own Fate?
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed steps into recent talk about moving the Oakland A’s. Despite his desire to relocate the A’s since 1968 Athletics co-owner and managing partner, Lew Wolff had already abandoned his negotiations in February for making Fremont the A’s future home stemming from the opposition of many local area businesses and residents near the proposed stadium sites.
Reed’s recommendation hopes to influence the MLB’s decision making process in the interest of all parties involved, including San Jose, “indicating that San Jose supports MLB in the City and requests to be freed of restrictive territorial rights.”
Although San Jose is 50 miles down interstate 880 the Giants maintain their position and rights, describing San Jose as teh heart of their fan base. Already home of the San Jose Giants minor league team, the Giants major league team may in fact have some merit.
A’s staduim negotiations stepping on Giants toes
A’s owner, Lew Wolff again supported San Jose as new home for his MLB team but as the Oakland A’s have continued to struggle with its stadium dealings it was announced by the Major League Baseball Commissioner, Bud Selig, that a panel of ‘stadium experts’ would assist in the teams stadium search.
Declining to comment Wolf had told reporters that San Jose would be prime real estate, with an already approved stadium but did comment on the announcement of an assigned panel, “Ultimately it has to be determined by baseball, not by me.”
Issues have continued to surface as Wolf explored San Jose once before because of concerns taht the staduim would overlap San Francisco Giants’ territory.
“The A’s cannot and will not continue indefinitely in their current situation.” said MLB commissioner, Bud Selig.
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