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08-03-2022, 05:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-03-2022, 05:42 AM by
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The Dodgers and Padres are playing take no prisoners chess. The Giants are playing pick up sticks with their butt cheeks.
I went in to yesterday convinced the only move for the Giants to make was to trade Rodon at minimum. This was no longer me wanting it to happen. This was looking at it objectively and realistically, based on the fact the Giants aren't as good as the teams ahead of them who would get better. Hell, even the biggest Giants Cheerleader Grant Brisbee wrote a column two days ago saying the Giants should sell, and followed with a trade deadline day story about possible trade assets the Giants could get for Rodon. Then the Padres and Phillies make their moves and it is obvious they are getting better, so now it's not even a question the Giants will trade Rodon because they can't keep up. It's literally as obvious as taking your hand off a hot stove after feeling the burn. So I was convinced the Giants would trade Rodon, and no longer had to wish it or just see it as the obvious move, but not sure it would happen. No way they would keep him.
But no, the Giants didn't "make a trade to make a trade," as Farhan said. They decided to flail away just to flail away, instead. At least had they traded Rodon they would have demonstrated a situational awareness the fan base is dying to see. The fans want to see an organization that is honest with itself, because if it can't be honest with itself, how the hell are fans suppose to trust it? Instead, the Giants insult their fans' intelligence and pretend that they can still be relevant with Rodon in a way they couldn't without him. The Emperor is threadbare, which SHOULD crater ticket sales for the remainder of the year and teach the team a lesson that the fans will not tolerate their intelligence being insulted. You are either all in, or all out, building for something better. This fence sitting, let's pretend we care a little to get butts in seats hoping the fans don't get wise to our bullshit is simply unacceptable.
After the trade deadline yesterday I found myself thinking of the Giants as having owners like Chris Cohan or the Yorks pre Jed running the Niners. When Cohan owned the Warriors I not only tuned out the Warriors but the entire NBA for like a decade. I didn't follow the Niners or NFL very closely in the lost 2000s. If the Giants don't do some big and I mean BIG things this offseason, I will tune them out too, because there is nothing more toxic to a fan's relationship with a team than lack of ownership trust. The Giants under the current ownership leader are on the verge of losing my trust and I will not hesitate to turn away if they don't do something to earn it back soon. Rant over.
