Deep thoughts: should your team’s conditioning coach eat well?

Deep thoughts: should your team’s conditioning coach eat well?
UPDATE: My bad. The quote about In-N-Out came from Spencer Dallin, the team’s Assistant to the equipment manager. The strength coach is Jim Malone, mentioned earlier in the article. Apologies. Both for misreading the story, and for rendering moot a perfectly good Pablo Sandoval joke. Story on MLB.com about how a couple of Padres’ employees…

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MLB Rumors: 10 New York Yankees Offseason Rumors You Should Not Believe

MLB Rumors: 10 New York Yankees Offseason Rumors You Should Not Believe
MLB trade rumors and free agency whispers begin to fly around the news wires every offseason and the New York Yankees normally have their own column stretching on for miles.

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How soon should Eli Whiteside be traded?

I truly think Eli Whiteside deserves to be a backup Major League catcher because of how well he works with Jonathan Sanchez. With that, trading Eli means trading Sanchez as well, so Sanchez can dominate in the Majors rather than lose his confidence working with Bengie Molina and Buster Posey. What do you think? I just thought of a trade:

Mariners get: Jonathan Sanchez, Eli Whiteside
Giants get: Dustin Ackley

If I were running the San Francisco Giants, I would offer this trade proposal to the Seattle Mariners right now. With this trade being made, here is the Giants’ projected starting rotation:
Lincecum, Zito, Cain, Bumgarner (who seems to be finding his velocity), Wellemeyer
Long relief: Kevin Pucetas or Joe Martinez (who is finding his velocity as well)

Catchers in 2011:
Buster Posey
Backup catcher: Steve Holm

I know that Jonathan Sanchez is dominant when at the top of his game, but I simply just do not trust Jonathan Sanchez to start in the playoffs. Lincecum, Zito, and Cain are fine as the three-man rotation to carry the Giants in the playoffs, I believe, and Sanchez probably would not start even if he was not traded. Why? Because he would be under pressure, he has never pitched in the playoffs before, and he would lose his confidence. What if he had just one bad game in the second half? It would be a blow to his confidence. That is how I think he still is.

Also, the Giants are getting Dustin Ackley, who can play center field. After the contracts of Mark DeRosa and Freddy Sanchez expire, it would give the Giants trade options on whether or not they want to trade Aaron Rowand, or perhaps play Ackley at second base and give Bowker, Schierholtz, Velez, and perhaps Torres a chance in the outfield. When the 2012 season is done, if the Giants cannot afford anyone, trade Tim Lincecum (they are going to have no choice but to do it because they have just about no chance of re-signing him) for big time prospects who the Giants can build their team around along with Buster Posey, Madison Bumgarner, Dustin Ackley, Zack Wheeler, Matt Cain, Pablo Sandoval, and Brian Wilson.

This trade would help the Mariners as well because it would give them a scary-good starting rotation once Cliff Lee and Erik Bedard are healthy again.
Felix Hernandez, Cliff Lee, Erik Bedard, Jonathan Sanchez, Ian Snell (or Ryan Rowland-Smith)

Edgar Renteria should retire (Associated Content)

High drive, outfielder going back, on the warning track…gone! With one swing of the bat Edgar Renteria won game five of the 2010 World Series for the San Francisco Giants. As the excitement, pandemonium, and euphoria wears off Edgar Renteria has a major decision to make. Negotiate a new contract and keep playing or retire. Edgar Renteria should retire. After having an injury plagued season, the decision to ret *Note: This article was written by an Associated Content Contributor.

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I like this girl, I think I messed up, What should I do?

I like this girl and I talked to her once poked her then she poked me, then I poked her again, no poke back(prolly due to this story I’m about to tell you). Alright my friend had a status on facebook about everyone on the phillies bandwagon and how everyone hopped on and me him and I said in order to be a fan you follow them throughout the season. Couple days later me and my two friends decide to hop on the San Francisco Giants fan to prove a point. I tagged her in two photos one was I’m on the Giants Bandwagon and a logo of the San Francisco Giants. On the Bandwagon one she commented “Never!”, I thought nothing was wrong so I commented back “Always! This shirt is the sh*t”, she didn’t comment back. The with the logo she commented “the phillies won last night sooo? ya, the PHILLIES are the best team ever” (I said the Giants were the best team ever for the caption” and I replied “The series isn’t over yet” and “I’m the only “True” Giants fan in my town”. She never commented back. What should I do?