As an A's fan I'm sad to see Barry fold under the pressure of his contract. There is no way that he has dropped off this far. Or is Billy Beane really that good to squeeze every last drop out of Barry, like a tube of toothpaste thats been rolled up in a dorm bathroom used by every drunken student. Then sold as a top teir anti-cavity fighter to the guy across the hall for $126 million, so you can watch him try to get something out of the tube.....
FOR THE NEXT SIX YEARS
HAHAHA
HEY BRIAN SABEAN WHY DON'T YOU MAYBE WATCH SOME FILM BEFORE DROPPING $126 M

Everyone laughed when I drafted Zito at the tail end of my draft, While Micah Owings and Brian Bannister went undrafted. I would have the last laugh, when Zito returned to fantasy prominence, despite absolutely no indication that he would. It would be the diamond in the rough for my pitching staff.
Then he started 0-3 and I cut him.
Bummer. He doesn't even get any starts against the Giants, which usually makes ANY schmo SP useful for streaming.

Andres R...or Commentor #2. HILARIOUS. LMAO, LOL all of the above. Commentor #1, Zaza Puchilia???? Don't you have a game against the number 1 team in the league tonight? Take your Zaza back to the bench and cheer on the Horrid Hawks.

im a die hard giants fan but!!!! lets just pay him whats left on his contract NOW!!Let him go play for another team.At least that way when we play against him we know were gunna win you know!Why pay him to give us a loss when we can pay him to give us a win?!

From looking at Zito's increasingly mediocre stat line the last few years, I didn't expect him to be lights out for the Giants. With that said, who would have actually guessed he'd be this bad. I mean... if it weren't for the Giants feeling pressure to keep their $126 in the rotation, he would have been banished to the bullpen... or AAA long ago. Actually, I feel sorry for the guy. I'm sure he hates pitching this poorly. Of course, it probably doesn't last long because he can just go buy a new home or a yacht or a small country with all of that money he's raking in.

Cy Young 2008

I think once Barry make a couple of decent starts, I would trade him and Lincecum for Rios and take on Burnett and another bad contract and get Barry out of here. Def the worse contract ever and only way we could take out the garbage is to include our stud pitcher. Sabean needs to have glasses and sign me to 126 mill cuz at least I would bat .050 and be a bench guy lol. Sabean rules! P.S Sabean I'm a free agent call my agent he's waiting.

Well, I am a die-hard Giants fan..I will be with them forever..But this trade is killing me...
I mean Timmy has more wins then him, Cain just needs some run support.
But Zito...i just dont know man... i just dont know...
But the Giants definitly need a solid 7 and 8 inning pitcher..
We have created a closer with Wilson.
But Barry please just get out of the first inning

The most disguting player in the league. I hope they send the million doller man to the minors. hahahahaahaahahahaha Giants are horrible

barry z. is done. trade him to ny for something

Way to extend your GM's contract...he is the worst GM in sports next to the Detroit Lion's GM

its sad to see barry do so bad.....but what do you expect from any bay area team? seriously..give him a break, its not like there isn't 140 games left in the season anyways. besides, he came from the A's...they're a second half of the season team.

He is clearly out of gas.

Im a giants fan. please trade ztio please!!! 126m for what? please trade him or have him go to a ballto san jose giants not aa or aaa!!!

he sucks and doesnt deserve all dat money

he sucks and doesnt deserve all dat money

he sucks and does not deserve all the money hes making

he sucks and does not deserve all the money hes making

The baseball gods are actually strangely fair - simliar to a guy that goes 0 for his first 31 then reaches 9 straight times, averages are averages and it comes around. I do not believe Mr Zito is done because he is both healthy and a veteran. The wins will come. The wins will come. So say we all (Giant nation).
However, iss my money where my mouth is? hmm, no, but I still think 10 wins will happen (might be 10 and 15, but 10 wins).

i'm a giants fan and don't know how everyone in baseball can realize that barry zito was losing velocity and command and was a no. 3 for the last 3 years in oakland, yet somebody who works in sight of that decrepet city and its franchise can get suckered in because the guy hadn't missed a start in so many years and has a phenomal workout regime. not to mention the fact that we already had cain, lincecum, noah lowry, and a wily veteran matt morris (we had no need for zito on a team everyone knew was gonna be bad as we waited for bonds to get his record and go on his way)
while were on the subject, i love barry and think he gets a raw deal because he didn't like sports writers and had the audacity to be the most feared hitter of his generation, before and after steroids. if the devil rays or mariners had the cajones to sign them they could make a serious run at the world series, without him they both fail to make the playoffs. hell, even the indians could use him in a platoon situation with a mixture of him playing left and hafner playing 1b while the other one dh's.
all that being said the giants are playing pretty well for a team that has 3 or 4 legitimate everyday major leaguers. the most frustrating thing is the money were wasting on a pitcher we don't need could have been used it to sign offensive help like andruw jones (ha!) this year (atleast i have a retort for dodgers fans who talk poo on zito now) instead we have to watch prospects who are never going to emerge into real players with the exception of maybe fred lewis, eugenio velez, and bowker.

makes you wonder, where there head was. 3 years ago he was getting shelled. should've given his money to bonds. at least he still can hit

he's been done ever since rick " the mullet" petersen left to go to the mets. barry should have went with him! can you say bust?