By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:52:35 +0000

Not good. With the winds generated by all those low pressure systems coming in off the Pacifc – low pressure being why Bay Area types are so laid back – Uggla’s strikeouts become useless for cooling off the empty seats the way they did at Joeprodolshark Stadium for so many years. On the other hand, his “swing hard in case you hit it” batting philosophy may go down well with the grunion fisherman in McCovey Cove, and it would surely be a tonic to all those Bay Area sportswriters who don’t have Barry Bonds to kick around anymore. Not only that: for those self-styled sports “journalists” who enjoyed letting you know how much their unnamed sources detested Bonds as a teammate or as a tipper, Uggla’s criticism of Hanley Ramirez for “not wanting to win badly enough” when Hanley was batting a mere 120 points higher than Dan the Man hold forth delightful prospects of having a new ambulatory sphincter to badmouth when the morning edition deadline finds them otherwise fallow.
Of course, the real deal that should be made for Dan the Man is with Oakland. Putting the guy in a stadium full of actually metabolising humans might be too much of a shock to his system after all those years at echo-prone Joeprodolshark Stadium.

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