We're sure y'all heard the big rumor out there that the Giants might trade either The Enchanter or Matt Cain to the Blue Jays for Alex Rios. This morning it was Timmy but now SFGate is saying it's Cain. Either way, our opinion is this-- hell to the noes.

Here's the thing-- Alex Rios is a really good player (.297 average, 24 homers, 85 RBIs, 114 runs scored and 17 stolen bases), he's young (27), and relatively cheap. The problem is that he's merely a really good player while Lincecum and/or Cain have the potential to be really great players. In other words, it's not really a fair trade. Put it another way: while somebody on the Giants has to hit over .250, Rios isn't really going to help the team that much. The end result is that the only thing the Giants will accomplish is taking a really bad offense and making it just bad while taking a potentially amazingly good pitching staff and making it just a good pitching staff. Remember too, they still sucked last year despite having Barry. Rios isn't quite Barry

This doesn't mean we're predisposed to trading either Tim or Matt. Desperate times call for desperate measures and if there's ever a time for desperate baseball measures, it's now. The only trade we'd go for, however, is one in which the Giants get more than just one player but more like a handful of players. Like putting together some sort of package to get something like the Marlins pulled off. This team needs more than one bat; it needs a whole lot of bats. If they can swing a trade for either pitcher, it better be for enough players to turn the team around. Alex Rios ain't gonna turn anything around.

And we ain't the only ones who think so.

Besides, Cain's our favorite player and if he goes, we're going to be PISSED.

Warriors 113 Rockets 94- On the pregame show before the game, the announcers were saying that whomever controlled the pace of the game would win. If it was fast paced, it's all Golden State. If it was slowed down a bit, then the Rockets would take it. Guess which kind of pace the game was played at? Despite the presence of Yao, the Warriors outrebounded the Rockets and held him in check. So much for that size disadvantage the Warriors are supposed to have. For those keeping score at home, that's eight out of nine games the Warriors have won.

-So you've probably heard the Lane Kiffin to Arkansas rumors. We have no idea what the what is but the thing makes kind of sense in a weird sort of way. Kiffin was totally unprepared for the job and kind of looks it. He has the same look on his face that you'd see in Starbucks when a barista who's been on the job for only a week suddenly finds himself running the place because the manager was sick. Throw in all the Al craziness and the fact that the Raiders are the second most dysfunctional franchise in sports (the Knicks are, of course, #1 by a wide margin) and Arkansas sounds kind of inviting. Just think about that for a minute.

-McCovey Chronicles has a really good discussion about the Giants' "Sophie's Choice" dilemna this offseason, mainly in that in order to get some good players in a trade, they'd probably have to trade either Cain or Lincecum. So which one should they trade? Right now, it doesn't look like it's gonna happen, but somebody on the team has to be able to hit the ball. And if you ask us we'd get rid of the Enchanter as something about him just screams "Kerry Wood."

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