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Lets face it Giants-Bonds need each other
By Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin July 15, 2007 |
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The San Francisco Giants open a four game set at Wrigley Field starting Monday night to open a seven game road trip. The Giants go fishing after a dismal home stand at AT&T and the club is sitting in dead last in the National League West. The edge has not been removed too badly since it's week number one after the All-Star break and the Giant faithful are still moving tickets at Third and King Streets. The Dodger series this past weekend sure took a lot out of the club's sails. After being thumped on Friday night by the Dodgers that the Giants who made a valiant come back down at one time 6-0 to come back and tie up the ball game 7-7 but only to lose in 12 on Saturday. and that nothing could go right for the ball club, and then to lose again today by 5-3 to the Dodgers. Manager Bruce Bochy didn't act all broken up about in the post game show in his office after the club's 50th milestone season on Friday night’s loss but said he gave credit to the guys who came out and went after the Dodgers to tie it up. The 12th inning gamer is what choked up the game for San Francisco by the Dodgers Rafael Furcal. Now coming into Chicago against the hungry Cubs it's a different ball game. The Cubs are fighting to get into first they sit in second in the National League Central. They trail first place Milwaukee and believe they can get back into it and sneaky and clever Cubs Manager Lou Piniella is the one guy who can make a club believe in themselves and take command in a game. The team was uplifted by a Saturday win by veteran starter Ted Lilly who helped the Cubs in a 9-3 upending of Houston. The Cubs are now 3.5 games out and look for Piniella to pull out all the stops in the game strategy and look for that when the Cubs come calling to host the Giants for a 4:05PM North side first pitch on Monday. Will Giants shop Babo? This was the discussion during the Dodger-Giants series at AT&T and when Peter Magowan was asked about this, he merely said he was disappointed that Bonds took a pass on taking some swings during the Home Run Derby. However, the derby is not going to be the main reason why Magowan will re-sign or not sign Bonds to another deal for next season. Yes, it is that time again to speculate. Bonds is nearing Hank Aaron's hallowed record short of four homers and even though it hasn't caused a swarm of interest nationwide there it is in all it's glory. What appreciation will Magowan show for Bonds passing up Aaron in terms of a new deal? He will not show much right away. If it wasn't for last year's speculation if Bonds was going to come back or not and of course here he is again the jury is still out on next season. We said before that Bonds would like to eclipse 800 homers but under the circumstances at hand, Magowan is giving the thought very careful consideration. If he was to bring back Bonds, he could be opening up a whole assortment of problems for 2008 when Brian Sabean who just inked a new deal as General Manager would like to rebuild the club with young players. While Magowan would like to see Bonds, get 800 homers in a Giant uniform after talking to Magowan during the break and the three game series he might take a pass on handling Bonds baggage for next season. It's just been peaceful co-existence with Magowan and Bonds but with the contract coming up Magowan could take a pass on this one and build the Giants out of youth and Bonds would have to chase his 800th homer in the American League with a team looking to draw fans. Good luck. Ken Gimblin and Joe Cronin cover Giants baseball and co-host Sportstalk on 1690 KFSG Sacramento. |
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