Peter Magowan
Peter Magowan
Peter A. Magowanis the former managing general partner of the San Francisco Giants Major League Baseball franchise...
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If not a reasonable thing to do, at least it was an understandable thing to do. It's so easy to write we should have seen it coming, but you could have written that in 2004, 2003 or 2002 or 2001. He's an old player by baseball standards, and yet he was better than anyone else all of those years.
trade
A trade? They can't trade me. I'm sorry.
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I recognize this is a serious matter. It is still a legal proceeding, that's all I can say. ... I can't comment on any of this. It's the position we've taken for two years now.
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Even though the timing is difficult for us, we'll survive. We'll get through this. I think Ned has enough integrity, that even though he is aware of our strategy, he's not going to steal our people or attempt to steal people that we're discussing final arrangements with. I think Ned can draw a line in the sand.
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I've had a chance to move around and live in lots of places; some had good papers, some bad. As a citizen I depend on that paper. If it is a good paper it makes that community a much better, nicer place to live.
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If I absolutely knew, I wouldn't tell you what we're doing because we want it to be a surprise. But what I will say is that it will be short and sweet. We don't want it to be disruptive in any way to the game itself. If it happens on the road, then we would do something before the first following home game.
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These things are always easier to say in retrospect that you shouldn't have done it. We did it because I think he deserved it. He asked for it. Based on what he had done for the Giants , I think he deserved it at the time. He played more games than anyone else on the team - 152 games - he was the MVP again. Possibly by showing that respect for him and what he had done for the Giants , it might have been another motivation and inspiration for him to give the best he possibly could for the Giants .
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We've been through this sort of stuff a lot in the past. I admit it was not as much as it is right now. The more he can play the better. I don't know what that number is. I think it has to be more than 14.