I am a fan of the team and will cheer for anyone on the roster. For the past three seasons, management has put on the field a team that brought the first two World Series Championships in the San Francisco Giants era.
But as of today, I am mad at the San Francisco Giants.
...I’m mad at the Giants for not taking a stand against giving Cabrera a ring. If he did not get a ring, what’s Melky going to do? Complain? If he complains, the fresh-start he’s been given by the Toronto Blue Jays would start off in a negative fashion – not exactly the quiet start he wants. Are the Giants afraid of the MLB Players Association filing a grievance? I think there’s more than enough evidence to support the team’s desire not to give him a ring.
When there is a reunion of the 2012 World Series Champions in the year 2022, will Cabrera be invited? I can go on record and say absolutely NOT. So if he’s not even welcome at an reunion game, he shouldn’t bear the ring of a miracle season that he was only a minor part of … not to mention it was all illegal in baseball terms.
In a bit of good news, NO MORE “MELK-MAN” OUTFITS.
That alone may deserving of a ring.
Repoz
Posted: February 19, 2013 at 08:55 PM |
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1. GuyMcGuffin Posted: February 19, 2013 at 09:13 PM (#4372274)Or, for that matter, the 2002 Angels and Troy Glaus?
As much of a blowhard as Curt Schilling is, he may be right about one thing - I don't believe there has been a single WS champion in the last 20 years that wasn't heavily "tainted"...
I'm not one that is passionate about the steroid issue. But you just can't have an organization be so inconsistent. Either you give Cabrera a ring AND you extend an invite to the reunion ceremony or you do not do either. This is just another example of a team trying to have it both ways.
I'm really not sure how you rally fans around this issue but the Giants really do need to be taught a lesson on this for their inconsistency.
Domingo Martinez has TWO World Series rings (1992/93 Toronto Blue Jays) but I don't think he gets invited to the reunion ceremonies.
What about players that are traded away mid-season and get a ring? I'm pretty sure they don't get invited to the reunion ceremonies.
which means, by definition, that no one is
What lesson do the Giants need to be taught? They haven't held any reunion ceremonies yet, so they haven't had a chance to invite or not invite Melky Cabrera to them. Where is the inconsistency? Did you time travel twenty years into the future?
I'm not sure the CBA covers rings (at least to the same degree it covers playoff shares). I think there would be no choice in the matter regarding Melky getting a full share, but I don't know if he automatically receives a ring.
The best part about Schilling's views on the subject-- and in this case, the plural "views" more than applies-- is that he's gone from publicly calling for steroid-aided statistics and titles to be offically invalidated, to publicly saying that the suggestion that the Red Sox' championships were in any way tainted due to steroids was nothing but haters hatin', to publicly saying pffft, all the teams were equally implicated so what can ya do? Whatever side of the fence you're on, Curt Schilling agrees with you.
Unless you can find a precedent (and you won't) of a player with similar playing time for WS champion not getting a ring then you have to give him one.
The Giants management have emphatically said they will give him a ring, I think the exact words were along the lines of "We never even discussed it, of course he gets one, he deserves one."
\yes, still bitter
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