Why not Jermaine Dye?

After watching the Giants go 3-2 on the current road trip -- scoring 11 runs in the five games, while allowing seven -- one has to wonder why the team didn't get a real bat such as Jermaine Dye since the Chisox were willing to make a deal.

Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports says the Giants may have gotten cold feet because Dye (who is 35) had been terrible in August and has an option in his deal for $12 million in 2010 that he could have exercised within 72 hours of a trade.
Scott Oster of the SF Chronicle doesn't understand why Bill Neukom is saying that paying $2 million for Dye would have been too much: Otherwise, you stamp your organization as chronically timid.

John Perricone at Only Baseball Matters says Sabean should be fired: Sabean thinks batting average is the way to evaluate hitters, and Dye’s average isn’t as good as Garko’s or Sanchez’s. Sabean ignored Dye because he doesn’t think Dye is a valuable hitter. And for that, he should be fired, on the spot. Sabean simply ignored the value that Dye would have added to the Giants, because he could not see it. It is a failure of the highest order.