Brian Sabean might not admit it, but when your team is eleven games under .500 and you suddenly announce that it's time for the kids to play, that's what they call in the business as rebuilding. And when it happens in June, a third of the way into the season, that's called "say goodnight, Gracie." Gone is reliever Jim Brower and Al Levine. Rumored to be going is Edgardo (for Kaz Matsui and Kaz Ishii?!). Over is the J.T.-era as J.T. announced that Felipe wants to start Lance Neikro. Also probably gone is Marquis Grissom, once more DL bound and being replaced by the still hot Jason Ellison. And say hello to your new friends, Jesse Foppert, Todd Linden and Jack Taschner. more ›

How bad are things for the Giants? Well, the best thing that happened to them over the past week was they got rained out. Why was it a good thing? Because it meant that Sunday was a double header and since it's so hard to win both games of a double header, it increased the odds that the Giants might actually win. Yep, it's been that bad of a week for Your San Francisco Giants. Since we last posted, the Giants won one game. Just one. For those keeping score at home, the Giants put together an eight game losing streak (their longest since 2000) before finally winning the first game of Sunday's double header against the Mets. They then went out and promptly got shellacked in the night game. more ›