Word: magowan
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Bonds earning about $40,000 a game? How can the Giants afford that? As Peter Magowan, the Giants' new managing partner, tells it, signing Bonds was a prudent move. "We had three guys playing left field last year at $2.5 million," he explains. "People keep talking about $43 million for Bonds, but he's getting less than the $7 million average during the first year. You throw in 150,000 more fans, and that's $1.5 million off that cost. And we have a much better team." This kind of baseball economics makes as much sense as Ronald Reagan...