It has been nearly eleven days since Marlins rookie Scott Cousins bowled over Giants catcher Buster Posey at home plate, breaking Posey's leg and ending his season, yet here we are still talking about it. Immediately following the collision, the national sports media engaged in a nation wide debate over whether there should be new rules to protect catchers. No matter what side of the debate you fall on, the bottom line is no one would be having this debate if it were some back up catcher (pick one of the Molina brothers) and not the defending World Series champions' all star catcher and clean up hitter had been injured while blocking the plate.
An SI article then brought to light that Scott Cousins, a San Francisco native, has been receiving death threats. Instead of donig the classy thing and releasing a statement saying that although the outcome of the play was unfortunate, it was a clean play and part of the game, fat ass Giants GM Brian Sabean made the following comments on a local San Francisco radio station. Keep in mind he already knew that Cousins had been receiving death threats:
“If I never hear from Cousins again or he never plays another game in the big leagues, I think we’ll all be happy.”
“He chose to be a hero in my mind, and if that’s his flash of fame, that’s as good as it’s going to get, pal. We’ll have a long memory. Believe me, we’ve talked to (former catcher Mike) Matheny about how this game works. You can’t be that out-and-out overly aggressive. I’ll put it as politically as I can state it: There’s no love lost and there shouldn’t be.”
The Giants organization backed off of their comments immediately, of course, and Sabean now has a date with MLB discipline czar Joe Torrey at a yet to be determined date.
Even hinting at violence is poor judgement from an organization that had one of its fans nearly beaten to death in LA on opening day. It appears Sabean thinks the Giants World Series victory has given him enough leverage to make ignorant, moronic comments without consequence. This is the same guy, by the way, that gave Barry Bonds free reign to behave however he wanted and signed Barry Zito to a $126 M contract through 2014. If I were a Giants fan, I think I would be concerned that my General Manager is still talking about something that happened eleven days ago and not looking toward the future in a very winnable division.
Brian Sabean. GM idiot of the week.
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