WEDNESDAY:

GUESTS:

JOHN LYNCH 330  / 6
COSELL 4 PM
STEVE YOUNG 5 PM
SEAN SALISBURY 530

TOPICS;

GIIANTS:


BRIAN SABEAN SPEAKS: --ALWAYS HONEST ---CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS:

NOT OVERREACT:


For the moment, Sabean said, “We just need to get the season finished, take a step back, decompress, and not get blindly negative. We can’t go overboard, like, ‘Nobody can play. Nobody should come back on this team.’ We still believe in our core players. But we have to put a fresh look on things. Whatever culture we created, whatever atmosphere, that window is closed.”

GETTING POWER:

We definitely need to get younger, more athletic and improve our defense, which has been atrocious,” Sabean said. “We’ve never been known as a big power team, unless you go back to 2000, when we were almost like an American League team (finishing with 226 homers). And let’s face it, how many free agents are going to come here? They’re not. For two reasons: the ballpark and the California taxes. That’s just a fact.

“So we’ll have to be very open-minded and aggressive on the trade front. We’re gonna have to be creative, and in some cases, bold. I’ve been thinking about how we can re-invent ourselves since the All-Star break.”

CONCLUSIONS:

The Giants figure to head into next season with an experienced rotation — Madison Bumgarner, Johnny Cueto, Jeff Samardzija and Matt Moore — with one of their young pitchers filling the fifth slot. That’s a solid group if they all stay healthy.

•The bullpen figures to be significantly different, and better, with Mark Melancon coming off surgery, Will Smith returning from a lost season and Sam Dyson proving to be one of Evans’ better moves.

BELT:

Between his concussion issues, burdensome contract (owed $64 million through 2021) and streaky hitting — unwatchable during the down times — first baseman Brandon Belt has exhausted the team’s patience. To be overly critical is simply not fair, with so many other players underperforming, and Belt is the most proven power hitter on the roster. He wouldn’t appear to be going anywhere, but sources indicate that manager Bruce Bochy would welcome a new look at this position.

•Few players in Giants history have been more beloved or influential than Hunter Pence. If you questioned his worth to the team in spring training, you’d be considered a lunatic. But this season has brought an alarming disintegration in all phases of his game. He isn’t nearly the same player. He’s owed $18.5 million next season, the final year of his contract, and he has a full no-trade clause. If he returns, barring a dramatic resurrection, his role is certain to be diminished.

•The rest of the outfield is a disaster. The Giants can live with Denard Span’s bat, but not his defense, making it likely he gets moved to left field — perhaps in a platoon — if he’s still with the team. Gorkys Hernandez is a gifted defender, but not built for the everyday grind as a hitter. Nothing short of a major overhaul will be acceptable.

•If the Giants still believe in Pablo Sandoval at third base, they’re hopelessly stuck in the past. Arroyo may yet develop into the hitter who showed so much promise in the early season, and he can field the position. But his absence of playing time (because of injury) makes him somewhat of a mystery, and Ryder Jones isn’t considered ready to be a starter next season.

“It’s incumbent on us to introduce more power and run production into the lineup,” Sabean said. “We know the legacy that’s been built, what the fan base has come to expect, and we don’t want this to be a lengthy turnaround. Can I promise you it will be quick? No. The first step is going from last place to being competitive. But I can tell you this: We won’t be outworked. We want to be different in every possible way that can change our fortunes. Because we’re not used to doing business like this.”

REVISTING THE HR RECORD ---NO PED TALK STILL --NOT BUYING IT

-MY PREDICTION: BELT AND SHARK GONE


The Chronicle’s Bruce Jenkins reported that with Belt’s big contract and recent concussion issues, sources suggested that manager Bruce Bochy “would welcome a new look” at first base.


SHOWINI OTANI --CAN GIANTS SIGN HIM - PLAY BOTH WAYS? 


MLB:

BEST STOPRY OF THE DAY GRIENKE AND NESHEK WAR: 

“Thanks guys. Greinke stiffed me once again. I asked him at the all star game if he would sign for me and he said he would… so a couple weeks ago we played them and I sent over the cards I needed signed… basically 3 league leaders cards with Kershaw and Wainwright already done and 2 from 2015 to complete the set. He said no… I waited around for him during batting practice and went up to him and he totally denied having the conversation at the all star game… I then asked why this was a problem and he said it’s because “I wear him out.” Hard to wear someone out when he has never signed for me. This is the only ahole in major league baseball that has been a turd to me. So going back to the conversation I said can you just get these done it will take 5 seconds… just draw a little z on them for me… He said no I will never sign for you… I walked away… a couple minutes later I confronted him in the outfield while he was jogging and told him what I thought of him… he just kept on running then said I wouldn’t even sign for your kid if he asked…. I wanted to laugh knowing he had probably thought of that line for a long time and that was the best he could come up with… I then let him know what I thought of him again and being the socially awkward guy he is ran back to the dugout and went inside. Soooo I’m done with this guy. I’m basically gonna have to trade with someone on here to 50/50 them down the road.”

49ERS:

PFF QBS: 30TH COUSINS, HOYER, WATSON 

-HAVE TO WIN

-SHANNY SAYS HOYER HAS TO GET HIS EDGE BACK ---NOT BACKING HIM AND SAYING HE'S THE GUY , HE'S THE GUY --- I WONDER IF THEY WOULD MOVE AWAY FROM HIM

NFL:

HIGHEST PAID LIST: 

The rest of the Forbes Top 10 earners in the NFL are listed below…

1. Matthew Stafford, QB, $52.5 million
2. Cam Newton, QB, $34.7 million
3. Andrew Luck, QB, $30 million
4. Derek Carr, QB, $27.2 million
5. Kawann Short, DT, $26.1 million
6. Drew Brees, QB, $26 million
7. Josh Norman, CB, $25.7 million
8. Kirk Cousins, QB, $25.4 million
9. DeAndre Hopkins, WR, $25 million
10. Stephon Gilmore, CB, $23.2 million

NBA:

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