According to ESPN, Brian Giles has vetoed a potential deal sending him to Boston, choosing to remain with the last place San Diego Padres.

The Herald has the details, and clues us in on the primary reason:

The primary factor was family reasons, as Giles wants to remain close to his children, who live in San Diego.

OK, the thread title is tongue-in-cheek, because I really can’t fault a 37-year-old man who wants to play out the end of his baseball career near his family in a city he loves. I mean, we all go though the “Life sucks, I want to move to Southern California” phase in our lives, don’t we? I think I spent about 3 years in my mid-20’s telling people I wanted to live in San Diego.

So, as we say in Italian: Salute.

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