Kickass news and changes!

I know many of you were excited to read the new Privacy Policy. Sorry about that, it's required by The Dodgerhater's new partner in crime: The Yardbarker Network and FoxSports.com.

This is huge on a number of fronts, but the main thing is that this blog gets syndicated on Yardbarker, and any of these posts are eligible to show up on FoxSports.com. Nothing's really going to change content-wise, it just means that this page's audience grew significantly, and there's a couple more ads on here (let's shoot for $5/month in revenue!).

If it weren't good old-fashioned, red-blooded, Dodger-hating Americans like you, this move wouldn't have been possible, so thanks for reading.

You can still catch weekly Q&A blurbs on Hotstove.com, and many of these articles will appear there as well, such as the recent Buster Posey article and the Romo/Runzler article.

Speaking of which, The Dodgerhater made an appearance on MLBTradeRumors.com last week! Hopefully it's the first of many, and whoever sent in that link is AWESOME!

I think this video expresses my thoughts on the whole situation:

Giants may be interested in Brad Penny

Just released from the Red Sox, the Giants and a couple other teams might be interested in Brad Penny. It's hard to say what role the Gyros might use him in with Joe Martinez holding down the 5 spot fairly well right now. Also, as this ESPN article details, Penny has a number of innings-based performance bonuses due once he hits 160 innings and beyond.

Buster Olney seems to think the Rockies are the best place for him. All the better reasoning for the Giants to sign him.

I doubt he'd want to work out of the bullpen, so I'm not sure how this would work. Moving Martinez back to the pen would be the obvious move, because he started out the year very well in that role. I guess we'll see.

From Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal via MLB Trade Rumors:

"He would make sense as a starter for the Giants, who are using left- hander Joe Martinez as the replacement for the injured Randy Johnson. And he would make sense as a reliever or bullpen for the Marlins, for whom he played from 2000 to '04.

The Rockies, Marlins and Giants all had interest in Penny last off- season before Penny signed a one-year, $5 million contract with the Red Sox. His deal also includes separate $500,000 bonuses for reaching 160, 170, 180 and 190 innings, but those will be voided once he is released."

Interesting...

I wouldn't be surprised if the Giants tried to snag Penny just to keep him away from the Rocks and the Blue Bitches. A preemptive strike if you will.