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Sabean and the culture of blame

Lots of comments this morning condemning Brian Sabean. Slow down, please. We are in what I call the culture of blame -- I am part of that culture, but let's step back from it for a moment. Do we blame Sabean and call him a flop as a GM? He [...]

By | September 5th, 2011|34 Comments

Giants are elite franchise

The Giants are an elite baseball franchise. When they have needs -- and recently they had plenty -- they go out and fill those needs. They represent and they strive to uphold a standard of excellence. I'm serious about this. I admire the player moves they recently made. Before Monday's [...]

By | August 1st, 2011|29 Comments

Praise to Brian Sabean

I'm gonna make this fast because I think I may buy a new Prius tomorrow and I have homework to do. But all praise to Brian Sabean for landing Carlos Beltran. The Giants had lost Buster Posey and Freddy Sanchez and needed a big hitter to go along with all [...]

By | July 28th, 2011|23 Comments

Giants do damage control

I interviewed Giants president Larry Baer on Saturday in the press box during the Giants-Rockies game -- Rockies won 2-1.  We talked about Brian Sabean's now infamous rant about Scott Cousins and the Giants' response which, I thought, was a propaganda press release. Baer explained himself and added to my [...]

By | June 4th, 2011|16 Comments

Sabean rips Cousins

Brian Sabean ripped Scott Cousins on KNBR today, really laid into him. He said he wishes the guy would leave baseball and he said the Giants are gunning for him -- i.e. want revenge on the field. These are incendiary words and I don't think there's any place for them. [...]

By | June 2nd, 2011|32 Comments

Sabean opens up

I'm posting my Wednesday column based on an interview I did a few days ago in Arizona with Giants general manager Brian Sabean, the architect of the World Series win in 2010. It was probably the mood I caught Sabean in, but as long as I've known him I've never [...]

By | March 15th, 2011|11 Comments

Giants’ personality; Sabean’s savvy

They just posted my Friday column, a look at the Giants before they, presumably clinch the division this weekend. In this column, a heart-thumping, must-read if there ever was one -- well, I may be exaggerating a little -- I explain what I believe the Giants' character is. And I [...]

By | September 30th, 2010|10 Comments

To Sabean critics

For most of the current baseball season I have defended Brian Sabean and written positive things about him. A lot of Zohn readers disagreed with me and after a while I felt like someone trying to sell a used Buick. I still think he did a great job this season [...]

By | September 29th, 2010|18 Comments

Sabean on Giants’ deadline trades

Brian Sabean spoke about his team after today’s 2-1 victory over the Dodgers. Here are selected quotes. On acquiring lefty Javier Lopez: “That’s our acute need (left-handed relief). We’re vulnerable. We’re in a negative leverage situation. Everybody knows we have two guys out. Obviously we didn’t want to give up [...]

By | July 31st, 2010|5 Comments

Sabean defensive

There was an item this morning about Brian Sabean and other big-league general managers. According to an ESPN.com poll of GMs, Sabean does not readily answer calls from other GMs. One anonymous GM said, "It's just flat-out disrespectful to not return a call.": Sabean responded angrily and said he or [...]

By | July 2nd, 2010|5 Comments