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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The San Francisco Giants will be holding a special ownership meeting on Friday, at which time, managing partner Peter Magowan will reportedly step down from the leading position within the organization.
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Who could replace Magowan at the helm? Rumors are former Microsoft general counsel William Neukom, and principal partner and business investor John Scully.
knucklehead7
Posted: May 14, 2008 at 01:53 PM | 13 comment(s)
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If that's not pronounced "nuke 'em", I don't want to know it.
EDIT: That picture of Magowan is a bit... dated.
EDIT: That picture of Magowan is a bit... dated.
Treder would know better than I, but my impression has always been that Magowan and Sabean were a kind of partnership and that Sabean just lost his #1 protector. It would be easy to bash Magowan now, and the snark-meisters will anyway, but I'll always remember him as one of the guys who saved baseball in Ess Eff and had the balls to build a stadium with mostly their own money. He had a good run. The team had some great years, they built a great park, and the team is a thousand times better off now (for the long term) than when he inherited it. What more can you ask?
EDIT: But yes, agree, the Giants didn't move to Tampa, so that is a great accomplishment.
They have lots of position players. Of course, the unbruised, aromatic ones are saved for the nicer suburban Safeway stores...
It is clear that Sabean has always had the support of Magowan; there's simply no other way to explain the contract extension Sabean was offered in 2007. But it isn't necessarily the case that with Magowan out, Sabean's support will be gone; it really is an unknown as to exactly who the ownership group will choose to replace Magowan in the MGP role. And one possibility I've heard floated is that in the absence of an active hands-on MGP as Magowan has been, the ownership group will simply operate as a faily passive board of directors, and they'll hire a President to run the show -- and that President could be, you guessed it, Sabean.
Wow. Would Dick Tidrow be in line for the gm spot?
Wow. Would Dick Tidrow be in line for the gm spot?
If it was Sabean's call, I suppose that might happen.
Please understand I'm not saying I'm expecting this to happen, just that I heard it speculated as one of the possibilities. It's also entirely possible that as soon as Magowan is out, Sabean's a$$ is grass.
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