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Article: San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Tim Kawakami column: Looking ahead, Giants need fresh face at manager.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- August 4, 2006
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Byline: Tim Kawakami
Aug. 4--Felipe Alou was always the Giants' post-Dusty Baker stopgap, an admirable man and dignified shop steward for the Barry Bonds status quo. He was hired in 2003 to maintain the paranoid clubhouse culture, not change it. He was brought in to soothe and strategize, not remake and revolutionize. So, given the prevailing age and chill moods of the roster, Alou has done well for more than three good to middling seasons. But now, to paraphrase Monty Python at this appropriately absurd moment, the Giants need something completely different. The status quo is toast. Bonds is a shadow of himself and presumably gone in a few months. ...
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