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		<title>Giants Beat Mariners In Spring Debut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hot damn, it&#8217;s baseball time &#8211; well, sorta. It&#8217;s not the crispy green grass and overcooked hot dogs of Opening Day, but, it&#8217;s getting there. Maybe it was getting there a little too much for Giants outfield prospect Thomas Neal. Neal, a highly regarded Giants prospect stood in against Mariners right-hander Ricky Orta in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friscofastball.com/2010/03/04/giants-beat-mariners-in-spring-debut/</link>
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		<title>Freddy Sanchez To Start Season On DL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News believes Freddy Sanchez  (knee, shoulder) will begin the 2010 season on the disabled list &#8211; something we&#8217;ve all expected even though the Giants refused to admit it.
Freddy isn&#8217;t expected to pick up a bat  for at least another week and the Giants certainly don&#8217;t want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friscofastball.com/2010/03/03/freddy-sanchez-to-start-season-on-dl/</link>
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		<title>Spring Training Is Here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pitchers and catchers report for the Giants today! Just a short amount of time until we see Opening Day.
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		<link>http://friscofastball.com/2010/02/17/spring-training-is-here/</link>
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		<title>Giants Sign Tim Lincecum &#8211; Avoid Arbitration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well hop skippity and jump, we&#8217;ve got excellent news coming in this Friday morning &#8211; Tim Lincecum and the San Francisco Giants have avoided arbitration (as many suspected) and agreed to a two year deal worth about 23 million dollars.
The deal breaks down like this: $8 million in 2010, $13 million in 2011 and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friscofastball.com/2010/02/12/giants-sign-tim-lincecum-avoid-arbitration/</link>
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		<title>Lincecum &amp; Giants Working On A Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With hopes of avoiding a arbitration case, a major league source tells John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle that the Giants have offered Tim Lincecum a three-year, $37 million  contract.
The proposed contract  would includes annual salaries of $9.5 million, $12.5 million and $15  million, according to the report. Shea writes that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friscofastball.com/2010/02/11/lincecum-giants-working-on-a-deal/</link>
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		<title>San Francisco Giants To Play In Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so maybe they&#8217;re just re-doing the field&#8230;pretty neat looking.
Source: SFGiants Twitter
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		<link>http://friscofastball.com/2010/02/10/san-francisco-giants-to-play-in-iraq/</link>
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		<title>News &amp; Notes &#8211; Feb 3</title>
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It appears that Tiny Tim and the Giants are going to be going to arbiration as the two sides could not come to an agreement on his salary. Lincecum never budged from his requested 13 million dollar salary and the Giants never budged from their 8 million dollar offer. It&#8217;s a shame the two couldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friscofastball.com/2010/02/03/news-notes-feb-3/</link>
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		<title>Frisco Fastball Featured in Yahoo BLS Blogbook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to give a big thanks to &#8216;Duk over at Yahoo&#8217;s official MLB Blog, Big League Stew, for including us in the BLS Blogbook.
Big League Stew is putting together a directory, if you will, of all the best team focused sites on the net and included us in the San Francisco Giants directory along [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friscofastball.com/2010/02/03/frisco-fastball-featured-in-yahoo-bls-blogbook/</link>
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		<title>Giants Sign Byung-Hyun Kim &#8211; You Can Barf Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I lied &#8211; I guess the Giants weren&#8217;t done JUST yet when it came to bringing in top flight free agents &#8211; and let me tell you, [sarcasm] today&#8217;s news does NOT disappoint. [/sarcasm]
As if the Giants hadn&#8217;t scrapped the bottom of the free agent barrel enough, today we&#8217;re greeted with the news that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friscofastball.com/2010/02/01/giants-sign-byung-hyun-kim-you-can-barf-now/</link>
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		<title>Giants &amp; Brian Wilson Avoid Arbitration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All is pretty quiet in the land of Giants. We&#8217;ve pretty much shot our wad on these MARQUEE free agents we&#8217;ve brought in *gagging sounds*, but, at least we&#8217;ve made some progress with our already established players.
According to ESPN&#8217;s Buster Olney, the Giants and Brian Wilson have  avoided arbitration with a one-year deal.
It will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://friscofastball.com/2010/01/31/giants-brian-wilson-avoid-arbiration/</link>
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