Here is the opening to my Thursday column about what the Giants did not do at the trading deadline:

Brian Sabean said the offers for his potential free agents were “embarrassing.”

His notable free agents after this season will be Tim Lincecum, Javier Lopez and Hunter Pence, but the floundering, bumbling, stumbling Giants are dealing from a position of weaknesses, and teams know that.

And Sabean is not weak. In a movie, he would play the tough guy who finishes off a beer, wipes his hand across his mouth and crushes the can in his meaty fist. So, he let Wednesday’s trading deadline come and go, and he did nothing.

How do we feel about that? Or to put things in lay terms, is Sabean a closet knucklehead?

To read the full column, please click here.