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Brian Sabean Knows, Sees, Tells Nothing

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Richard Justice of the HOUSTON CHRONICLE writes today that baseball commissioner “Bud Selig seems ready to suspend San Francisco Giants owner Peter Magowan and general manager Brian Sabean for looking the other way while a certain slugger bulked up and hit a bunch of home runs.”...

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Brian Sabean Knows, Sees, Tells Nothing

Rickey_Fitts — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:31:13 EST

@Max Mercy: Worst. Trade. Ever.

Rickey_Fitts

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Billy Clyde Puckett — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:07:12 EST

"Athletic Trainer privilege?"

WTF is next, "Sprinkler Maintenance Guy privilege?"

Billy Clyde Puckett

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josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:37:47 EST

@Peter Cavan: Obviously, you havn't met my dad...

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you

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DougOLis — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:10:56 EST

@Peter Cavan: fuck. I'll see you guys in 10-20

DougOLis

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Boy Howdy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:58:18 EST

@Fiver: That's also the first in a chain of cases that led to the cessation of Rejected Commenter Theater, once it was pointed out that it was a violation of Prospective Commenter-Combudsman Privilege.

Boy Howdy

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Deadspin — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:14:33 EST

@bigboneded: Is "clogging up the bases" banned as well?

Deadspin

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Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:04:48 EST

@Carlton_Whitfield: Thanks. I don't need any performance enhancing drugs to boost my commenting abilities. (Alcohol isn't a drug, right?)

Coming Into The Game, ♪♪ ♪♪♪ #J23 - The Superstar Receiver, ofyourupperdeck TORONTOOOoo BJSss ®

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bigboneded — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:49:51 EST

@Max Mercy: NEVER speak of that again or I will hunt you til my dying days, if necessary.

And Dusty Baker's name is henceforth forbidden as well.

bigboneded

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Fiver — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:49:16 EST

As Justice Blackmun said in U.S. v. Zolin, "we have recognized the attorney-client privilege as the oldest of the privileges for confidential communications known to the common law...except for the athletic trainer privilege, of course."

Fiver

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Dave J. — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:46:58 EST

"Conte refused to identify the player to us, citing athletic trainer privilege."

WHAT? For reals? That's gold.

Dave J.

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Jefferson Short Bus — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:42:39 EST

@44 in a Row: I'm not even a law geek, but I'm hoping for a full day of Jonathan Lee Riches lawsuits one of these days.

Jefferson Short Bus

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44 in a Row — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:39:51 EST

An entire day of legal documents on Deadspin must be our punishment for bitching about the SSW. Coming next week: Instruction Manuals!

I think you underestimate the size of the LLP. Personally, I'm loving this.

44 in a Row

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Katni — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:37:41 EST

An entire day of legal documents on Deadspin must be our punishment for bitching about the SSW. Coming next week: Instruction Manuals!

Katni

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Abe Froman — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:35:15 EST

so rather than signing players in their 20s, sabean would rather sign old players who juice up to play like their in their mid-to-late 30s.

awesometastic.

Abe Froman

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Max Mercy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:30:40 EST

This still doesn't explain the Pierzynski for Joe Nathan, Boof Bonser and Francisco Liriano deal... We need answers Brian!!!

Max Mercy

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lisa — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:29:24 EST

From ESPN featured comment
We have to remember that this list is not exhaustive; it is a start.

So what will be the price of the sequel (didn't the first one cost $60 mil

lisa

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DennyCrane — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:26:23 EST

I KNOW NOTHING!!!!!
/Col. Klink

DennyCrane

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She Blinded Me With Violence — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:25:58 EST

@Herbies_Wingman: God, could you imagine if Berman was the M.C. of this coverage?

[Cut to Berman in the studio]
"And now I'm being told that Bud 'Why the Fuck is Heidi Klum Married to" Selig is now stepping up to the podium. Let's go back, back, back, back (repeat 'back' ad nauseum) to the press conference."

She Blinded Me With Violence

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GreatOdensRaven — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:24:55 EST

@Carlton_Whitfield: I have to presume that the "privilege" constitutes not having to carry the towels and getting a free t-shirt if the team wins the pennant.

GreatOdensRaven

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Marth — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:24:49 EST

Well this document sure isn't very funny.

Marth

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Peter Cavan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:24:03 EST

@Coming Into The Game, The Superstar Receiver, Of Your Upper...: He's in the running for Comments of the Fortnight now.

Peter Cavan

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Herbies_Wingman — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:21:57 EST

nice to see Bob Lea actually getting more facetime than Berman

Herbies_Wingman

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Carlton_Whitfield — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:20:59 EST

@Coming Into The Game, The Superstar Receiver, Of Your Upper...: "someone pop the champaign..."

Was that an intentional Illinois pun? If so, nice work.

Carlton_Whitfield

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Carlton_Whitfield — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:19:59 EST

@Jen P: I guess so, but... that can't be an actual, legally recognized privilege, can it?

Carlton_Whitfield

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JoeyT — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:19:45 EST

@Jen P: There are a lot of people who don't like facts, mostly because they don't understand them and are a bit afraid. These days, the only ones who like facts are in Massachusetts.

JoeyT

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BruschisBrewsky — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:18:37 EST

@JoeyT: Hence the signing of Aaron Roward.

Uh-huh, he's clean. Totally.

BruschisBrewsky

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Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:18:15 EST

@Will Leitch: Holy Fk! Three comments in one day! Someone pop the champaign in honour of his hard work at commenting!

Coming Into The Game, ♪♪ ♪♪♪ #J23 - The Superstar Receiver, ofyourupperdeck TORONTOOOoo BJSss ®

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Len Bias Cocaine Surplus — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:18:00 EST

@She Blinded Me With Violence: The man-perm purchased 2,000 dollars worth of HGH

Len Bias Cocaine Surplus

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Jen P — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:17:55 EST

@Carlton_Whitfield: Was that used in the same sense as "attorney-client privilege"?
Holy crap.

Jen P

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Southeast Jerome — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:17:31 EST

If only the Hogan's Heroes cast were still alive to make a TV movie about the Giants clubhouse!

Southeast Jerome

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Jehovahs Witness Protection Program — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:17:10 EST

Yeah sure, the government knows about EVERYBODY who does drugs... and yet, the Brett Favre bong man remains free. You stay strong, Wisconsin!

Jehovahs Witness Protection Program

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Greg Lindsay — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:17:06 EST

A page or two later, there's a part where the Giants owner asked Sabean a direct question about whether the club had a problem with steroids, and Sabean told him "no" flat out, even after all of Conte's warnings. Sabean naturally denied all of this to Mitchell.

Greg Lindsay

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She Blinded Me With Violence — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:16:18 EST

John Kruk's man-perm is shatteringly tremendous.

She Blinded Me With Violence

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Carlton_Whitfield — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:15:57 EST

"Athletic trainer privilege"?

Seriously?

Carlton_Whitfield

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Jen P — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:15:52 EST

@Will Leitch: I wonder ... I think sometimes people are more interested in the "maybes" than in the facts - the "maybes" are usually more interesting, after all.

Jen P

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44 in a Row — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:14:59 EST

Why would a personal trainer not be qualified to be in the weight room?

44 in a Row

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JoeyT — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:14:07 EST

Sabean before his next player acquisition: "If he was taking drugs illegally, Mitchell would have known about it."

JoeyT

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Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:13:45 EST

@Jen P: Well, that list was pretty juicy. I guess people want to dream. Or maybe because ESPN didn't have the insider information that was in that post.
BTW Wasn't Stats Feed going to enable commenting "very soon"?

Coming Into The Game, ♪♪ ♪♪♪ #J23 - The Superstar Receiver, ofyourupperdeck TORONTOOOoo BJSss ®

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Juancho — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:13:31 EST

Jamie Foxx was all up in this, I can feel it.

Juancho

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BruschisBrewsky — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:11:47 EST

So you're saying that Brian Sabean is clueless as a GM?

Barry Zito disagrees.

BruschisBrewsky

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Peter Cavan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:11:42 EST

Because the government knows about EVERYONE who sells illegal drugs.

Peter Cavan

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Rob Iracane — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:11:41 EST

Coward!

/Milloy

Rob Iracane

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Will Leitch — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:11:28 EST

@Jen P: To be fair, the first post had about four more hours to compile. I bet the actual list catches up.

Will Leitch

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YourWildHorses — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:11:08 EST

@Jen P: The "possible" list has been up for more than twice as long.

YourWildHorses

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JoeyT — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:09:37 EST

I have a visual image of Conte with his head in his hand, sighing subsequent to every scene depicted in this excerpt.

JoeyT

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Jen P — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:07:38 EST

So according to the stats feed, the post with the list of players actually mentioned in the report got 19,000 fewer views than the post with the "possible" list.

Jen P

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Jefferson Short Bus — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:07:30 EST

I believe in miracles, because Sabean still has a job after all these years.

Jefferson Short Bus