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Pablo Sandoval Puts His Tail Between His Legs And Crawls Back To The Giants After Getting Released By The Red Sox

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Oh, Pablo. Pablo, Pablo, Pablo. You sad little man.

Do you remember when you left the Giants to sign your shiny, new $95 million contract with the Red Sox? Do you remember what you said about your former team and the players that you won World Series titles with? That’s TITLES, plural. Here’s a little reminder.

Leaving the Giants? “Not hard at all,” Pablo Sandoval told Bleacher Report during an early-morning conversation here the other day. “If you want me around, you make the effort to push and get me back.” The Giants did not make that effort, Sandoval said, reiterating that last spring’s aborted talks for a contract extension in San Francisco were pretty much the end of the line.

“I knew early in spring training last year I was going to leave,” Sandoval said. “They didn’t respect my agent. Contract talks, everything. The way Brian Sabean (Giants general manager) talked to my agent. The Giants made a good offer, but I didn’t want to take it,” he said. “I got five years (and $95 million) from Boston. I left money on the table in San Francisco. It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.”

In all likelihood, far more than the Panda is going to miss San Francisco. “Only Bochy,” Sandoval said of Giants manager Bruce Bochy. “I love Boch. He’s like my dad. He’s the only guy that I miss. And Hunter Pence. Just those guys. But now, I feel like I’m home.”

Also, let’s not forget what Aubrey Huff, a former teammate of Sandoval’s, said about him after these comments were made public.

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I would imagine that this has all been a very humbling experience for our dearly departed Pablo Sandoval. It’s actually incredible how far he has fallen over the last three years or so. Like Huff said, he was as big of a fan favorite as it gets in San Francisco, and he turned a few years of decent play in the regular season and a couple of great postseason runs into nearly $100 million. And when he got released by the Red Sox, the city of Boston basically threw a parade.

He wasn’t beloved for a single second here. And for the most part, it was because of his poor performance on the field, but right behind that reason is what Huff described. Red Sox fans can sense shit like that. I never liked him for a single second, and it was because I knew he thought he was the next coming of David Ortiz, when in reality, he was the next coming of Carl Crawford. Actually, he wasn’t the next Carl Crawford — he was the first Pablo Sandoval. The worst free agent signing in the team’s 116-year history.

His attitude sucked worse than his play on the field, and that’s why, halfway through his five-year pact with Boston, he came crawling back to the team that he told to fuck off on a minor league deal. Enjoy the bus rides, champ. You earned it.