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Dec 7 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
A few ancillary thoughts: 1. People are already ripping Zaidi for not being able to close a big deal. These contracts are never about one executive. Ownership is heavily involved. If he really turned down $400m from #padres, tells me he felt NY was closer to title and/or ….
…. his heart was still in New York. I still haven’t seen a firm report on what #SFGiants offered. 2. I haven’t still and continue to maintain, as I said on @KNBR months ago, #SFGiants don’t need a superstar player to win titles. It’s a selling-tickets issue. While I still …
@KNBR …. think the #SFGiants should go hard for one of the big shortstops, particularly Correa, I spent yesterday morning nodding my head in agreement as I read @susanslusser quoting baseball people saying SF would be better off with three $100m players than one $300m player. …
@KNBR @susanslusser …. 3. If healthy, Haniger is not a bad start to building a better team. 4. I’ve said it 1 million times so here is 1,000,001: for #SFGiants to win titles again, the heft of their talent must come from the farm system, as it did to win 3-in-5. 5. Yes, it’s still OK to be ….
@KNBR @susanslusser …. angry, sore and emotionally drained after weeks of this Judge stuff and yesterday’s seemingly positive vibe he was coming to SF. And I do genuinely feel for you. This is tough.

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