The Big G Is A Big Joke

Jason Giambi needs steroids to survive in the game these days and unless he starts pumping cycles again like it’s 2001, then well there is no place for him on the New York Yankees or in Major League Baseball for that matter.

The Giambino has gone from a .300+ hitter who can spray the ball to all fields and hit 40 bombs a year to a complete embarrassment with the bat. It’s either a ground out or a walk for the Big G these days, and it’s usually not a walk.

Time and time again the Yankees put people on with two outs in an inning only to see #25 emerge from the on deck circle to stick a fork in a rally before it gets going. His presence at the plate has become a joke and with the “martini glass shift” that Michael Kay likes to so often talk about, there is a better chance of John Flaherty getting a base hit from the broadcast booth than there is of Giambi reaching.

$23,428,571.00 is Jason’s salary for the 2008 season, his final year of one of the worst contracts ever handed out. He is currently making $144,620.81 per game. He must be a great conversationalist at first base with the opposition because I am not sure there is any other reason for him to be in the lineup.

The Big G has 12 hits this season in 22 games and has no hits in 13 of those 22 games. Now, I know that is seems unfathomable that someone could be so bad at something and get paid so much , which gives him that hefty .159 batting average. If Giambi keeps up on this pace

The Big G has five home runs this seasons. Two of them are off Mike Timlin and two of them are off Paul Byrd. I am not sure if Joe Girardi knows this, but Jason isn’t hitting anyone born after 1970.

Last night Giambi scored Matsui in the bottom of the 9th with a grounder down the first base line against Todd Jones who along with Joe Borowski have to be the two softest throwing closers in the history of the league. Giambi got credited with the RBI and the hit, but had anyone other than the new first baseman Migeul Cabrera been over there, the Big G would have just been the first out of the inning. You think Lyle Overbay would have missed that ball?

The Big G is back in the lineup hitting fifth and ready to sabotage any situation with runners in scoring position.