On the early Apple Newtons, if you wrote "John Scully," they would translate it as "John Silly."

So...what's the over/under on Sabean's tenure in # of days?

Neukom

If that's not pronounced "nuke 'em", I don't want to know it.

Shooty, is Sabean Magowan's guy? I take it you think Sabean will be fired by the new owner.

EDIT: That picture of Magowan is a bit... dated.

Shooty, is Sabean Magowan's guy? I take it you think Sabean will be fired by the new owner.

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?

Well... position players?

EDIT: But yes, agree, the Giants didn't move to Tampa, so that is a great accomplishment.

The former Pepsi/Apple CEO was John Sculley, who is also a corporate investor. But John Scully is a different person.

Neukom wears bow ties.

Well... position players?

They have lots of position players. Of course, the unbruised, aromatic ones are saved for the nicer suburban Safeway stores...

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 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.

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?

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?

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.

There goes the second biggest enabler in the game after Tony LaRussa.