Did the Giants give Zito the worst contract ever?

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#3
7 years 126 million for a pitcher that is 0-6, can't command his pitches and has below average velocity. That big bender he used to throw up there isn't even close to what it once was either. He could lose 20 games this year and the bad thing is he will only get worse.
 
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Zito had not been a particularly good pitcher for three years when the Giants signed him. Maybe the A's blew through his arm in his early 20s because they knew they weren't going to re-sign him. Regardless, just looking at his stats should have told the Giants that they were buying a pitcher in decline. They deserve it.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Zito had not been a particularly good pitcher for three years when the Giants signed him. Maybe the A's blew through his arm in his early 20s because they knew they weren't going to re-sign him. Regardless, just looking at his stats should have told the Giants that they were buying a pitcher in decline. They deserve it.
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I'd say that contracts given to Kevin Brown, Chan Ho Park and Mike Hampton have to be right up there.

Of course, my personal favorite was the infamous Nick Esasky contract.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
You have a really annoying habit of bringing up all these memories that I've spent well over a decade trying to block.
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Like it's difficult to come up with miserable memories of being an Atlanta sports fan in the 1980s?:crazy:
 
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GAVol said:
Like it's difficult to come up with miserable memories of being an Atlanta sports fan in the 1980s?:crazy:
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The Hawks were good in the '80s. However, choking away Game 6 of the '88 Eastern Conference semifinals to Boston is second only to the collapse against the Cowboys in the playoffs after the 1980 season by the Falcons in debilitating effect on the Atlanta sports populace.
 
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hatvol96 said:
The Hawks were good in the '80s.
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The Hawks had to work hard to create such an apathetic fan base between the contract they gave Jon Koncak, trading away Dominique Wilkins and then having Danny Manning walk out on them, signing complete dogs like JR Rider, Ken Norman, Glen Robinson etc.
 
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hatvol96 said:
The Hawks were good in the '80s. However, choking away Game 6 of the '88 Eastern Conference semifinals to Boston is second only to the collapse against the Cowboys in the playoffs after the 1980 season by the Falcons in debilitating effect on the Atlanta sports populace.
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Both games were insignificant setbacks compared to Game 7 of the 1991 World Series.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Both games were insignificant setbacks compared to Game 7 of the 1991 World Series.
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Ah, the World Series where we learned that putting your 4th starter in the game to pitch the 10th inning on back to back nights is not a good idea . . . and that Lonnie Smith's drug habit apparently killed the brain cell that was supposed to tell him to look at the 3rd base coach instead of the infielders.
 
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