Sunday, June 29, 2008  Hey Neukom! My Giants Business Plan:
Great Starting Rotation  As shown in my last post, preventing
runs are very important and who has the biggest influence on
that? The starting pitchers. That is another pillar in the
strategy of creating the best team for success in the playoffs,
and ultimately in the World Series.  That is the magic sauce
that fans have been missing in baseball, the starting pitchers.
In other sports, you can have a player dominate the game and
take it other. In football, you got the right quarterback, the
right running back, the team will be boosted over other teams.
In basketball, you got the Jordans, the Abdul-Jabbars, the Magic
Johnsons, the Shaq, who can take over a game and lead the team
to victory. In hockey, you got the Gretzky's, the Lemieux's, who
transcends the game.  In baseball, it is the pitcher's who has
such control over a game. He pitches the most pitches in a game.
He sets the tone for the game, both defensively and offensively.
The former is obviou