Giants Testing Omar Daal

I saw the news about Daal and I'm pretty surprised. He made $4.5 million last season and he would probably have to take a huge pay cut to play for the Giants. Then again, MLB teams are probably not taking numbers and lining up trying to sign him.

This is related to Daal, but unrelated to Japanese baseball. Does anyone remember when Daal had 19 losses in 2000 and the last 20-game loser, Brian Kingman, was attending Daal's games desperately hopeing that Daal wouldn't reach that mark (20 losses)? If Kingman isn't the biggest loser in the world, I don't know who is. Why would anyone in their right mind want to be forever known as the last 20-game loser in MLB? I mean, Kingman is darn proud of his "achievement." Any competitive athlete would want a dubious achievement like that wiped off the record books as soon as possible. Kingman has prayed that guys like Daal don't take his name off the record books. Daal wasn't the only one either. Every time someone comes close to 20 losses, Kingman gets his 15 minutes of fame for being a loser. It's time for someone to reach 20 losses so that Kingman can go get a life.

If I were the Giants, I would stay away from Omar Daal. When he was with Baltimore he had one injury after another.

Actually, Mike Maroth of the 2003 Tigers lost 21 games, putting Kingman back into the huge crowd of previous 20-game losers who aren't "the last." On the same team, Jeremy Bonderman came close to losing 20 as well.

Mike Maroth lost 20 games for the Tigers in 2003. They shut down Bonderman? I think because he almost lost 20 that season as well. I think he ended up with 18 losses. That was just an awful team, worst I've ever seen.

That's right, I forgot about Maroth. My mistake. Well, it was good that someone finally took away Kingman's 15 minutes of fame.

Omar Daal's throwing form is a bit like Hideo Nomo's, albeit not as exaggerated and from the left side. He turns his back completely on the batter before firing to the plate. It'll be interesting to see if the Giants decide to sign him or not.

Omar Daal failed to make the Giants on his tryout with the team. [Link - Daily Yomiuri - second article down]