Daft Punk Alive 2007 and potential Giants offseason moves...

So I've spent the last month of baseball free agency agonizing over the Giants next horrible offseason signing. Last season it was Zito, Roberts, Feliz, and everyone else we signed except for Klesko (I mean come on, he was kinda fun to watch). This season I expected it to be Hunter and Cordero. Unbelievably, as this month passed both players were signed by idiots not named Brian Sabean. I don't care what you think of Hunter but he is an aging center fielder who will never have as good a season as he just had and there is no way he is worth 90 million over 5 years. Same with Cordero. That doesn't mean the Sabean won't still let me down soon and sign someone like Rowand (another FREAKING CENTER FIELDER) and make me cry myself to sleep for the next week thinking of the next three years of Giants baseball. But, I see hope in our future so I've begun to spend two to three hours every night perusing the internet looking for players the Giants could trade Noah Lowry for. And, when I saw that Daft Punk released their first live CD since the first ALIVE, I decided to do a "combo-post."

First to the CD. From what I have read about it, its a live recording of a concert they had in Paris. Its the same concert held at the Greek Theater a few months back that was apparently amazing. They released it to iTunes today, and I found the link on some blog so here it is along with a track listing. Bonus: apparently this is the "deluxe" edition. Don't even really know what that means, but it can't be bad.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T60KNNT0

Tracklist:
1. ROBOT ROCK / OH YEAH
2. TOUCH IT / TECHNOLOGIC
3. TELEVISION RULES THE NATION / CRESCENDOLLS
4. TOO LONG / STEAM MACHINE
5. AROUND THE WORLD / HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER
6. BURNIN’ /TOO LONG
7. FACE TO FACE / SHORT CIRCUIT
8. ONE MORE TIME / AERODYNAMIC
9. AERODYNAMIC BEATS / FORGET ABOUT THE WORLD
10. PRIME TIME OF YOUR LIFE / BRAINWASHER / ROLLIN’ AND SCRATCHIN’/ALIVE
11. DA FUNK / DAFTENDIREKT
12. SUPERHEROES / HUMAN AFTER ALL / ROCK’N ROLL

On to the more important part of my post. Noah Lowry is an established lefty pitcher who is young, under contract through 2011, and did I mention is he young? He is also pretty good. Last year he was 14-8 with a 3.92 era. Two years before that he was 13-13 3.78 with over 200 IPs. Come on, you can't really try to convince me he is not a hot commodity in today's ridiculous free agent market. (potential suitors, please ignore the 1.55 WHIP from last year). So I gotta believe we can get like some totally awesome sick nasty really good players. The guy I keep coming to is Jed Lowrie. First off, they essentially share the same last name. Thus, it wouldn't even be a real trade. More like a first-name swap. Second, this is actually realistic. He is a shortstop in Triple A for the Red Sox, thus he is blocked by Lugo. Yes, the Red Sox do already have good pitching, but in my mind Santana is gonna cost too much. So, a lefty starter who is already established for a Triple A shortstop who is blocked at the Major League Level by a four year, 36 million dollar contract anyways. Who would turn that down? But don't get me wrong, Lowrie is a stud. Last year between Double A and Triple A, he hit .298, with 47 doubles, 13 home runs, and a .896 OPS. That's a damn good year. And the Giants need a fucking Shortstop because Vizquel is a fucking joke at the plate at this point even if his defense is fun to watch. This is the first of what may be a few installments of "What can the Giants get for Noah Lowry?" I need something besides work to think about and I read McCovey Chronicles everyday and that's all he talks about too. That and Miguel Cabrera trade rumors (that's what I really want for Christmas).