What, you were worried? About the Athetlics winding up with more wins than the San Francisco Giants in 2025? Why would you be nervous about something that’s impossible? Relax, friend. You’re catastrophizing. I read somewhere that it’s not healthy to catastrophize. Bad for your heart or something.
But, yeah, after the San Francisco Giants helped knife the Oakland A’s to death, they’ve found themselves with the entire Bay Area market to itself. You think they’re going to hold onto that win by being
as bad as the team they pushed out? Have a little faith, homie. The Giants have got this. They have 61 wins. The A’s are now the Athletics and they’ve been banished to West Sac. They’re lucky to win any games up there, let alone the 59 they have right now.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, why are you upset again? You didn’t know that only two wins separate Buster Posey’s gilded team from a Las Vegas real estate boondoggle? So what? Who cares? Relax. It’s still early. Plenty of season left. Plus, those bozo Athletics don’t try at all and they have the exact result a team that doesn’t try should have. The Giants try real hard. Like, super hard, friend. Harder than any other team — at least in the Bay Area. They spend so much money, bro; like, soooo much money, and they play in a waaaaay harder division. Uh, you ever hear of the Dodgers? And the Padres? These are superteams the likes of which aren’t seen anywhere else. The Giants being in (mumbles) place behind them is totally cool. And the Giants are still rebuilding from those Farhan’s Folly years, you know. That’s gonna take a long time to fix — but, you know, not too much time because Buster Posey, Zack Minasian, and Humm Baby Humm Baby BoMelMattWilliamsWillClark know what they’re doing. Trust the process, buddy. But yeah, $220 million for 61 wins at this point in their much harder schedule is pretty freaking sweet. They Athletics have only 59 for $112 million.
You seem unconvinced, though. Why? The Athletics had an 11-game losing streak back in May and an awful stretch where they went 3-24. Like, who cares if they’ve gone 36-30 since then. No team that’s had that bad a stretch could ever be good — certainly not better than my Giants! And don’t you go throwing those second half statistics at me. So what if the Athletics are 18-13 since the break while the Giants are 9-22? The Giants have had the harder schedule, yo. Trust me on that. Don’t look that up. And the rest of the way, the Athletics have a way harder schedule, too. On FanGraphs, it’s .503 winning percentage by their opponents in the games remaining. The Giants are at .498. The Giants are on pace for 77 wins, the Athletics 74. My dood, you honestly believe the Athletics will overtake them over their final 33 games? No chance.
Like, break it down: the Athletics have to play the Mariners in Seattle for three, host Detroit and Texas, travel to St. Louis and Anaheim, host the Red Sox and Reds, play in Boston and then Pittsburgh, then host the Astros and Royals to end the season. Gonna be tough! Those are some good teams! The Giants? Well, after they get turned inside out by the Brewers, they host the Cubs (16-16 in the 2nd half; 32-30 on the road overall), the Orioles (29-37 on the road), go to Colorado (Giants already won a series there this year), St. Louis (13-19 in the 2nd half), host the tanking Dbacks, then — okay, yeah, this is tough — the Dodgers, then play in Arizona for three before a four-game set in Los Angeles… well… hmm, but, you know, no matter what, the Giants always get up for those Dodgers series, amirite?? Then they end the season at Oracle Park hosting the Cardinals and Rockies. My uncle who knows ball says that’s an easy 20 wins right there, which means the Giants will wind up 81-81, right where they were projected to be in the preseason! The Athletics will be lucky to get 5 wins the rest of the way. The Giants literally play three playoff teams the rest of the way. The Athletics gotta play, like, most of them.
People say that the Giants might not be good, but at least they’re not the Athletics or whatever, and they’d be right. Besides, they don’t even play in the Bay Area anymore. Who runs The Bay? The Giants do. And they’re not only running it the best they can, but better than any neighboring region.
You’re getting too caught up in the Dodgers being better than the Giants. So what? You think they’re going to win all 7 of those remaining games? Nah. 4, tops. Okay, 5. But, the Giants will steal a game in Milwaukee this weekend. Handle business at home against the not-Dodgers. Don’t bother bringing up their historically awful performance at Oracle Park lately. Every team has a 5-16 stretch at home, you just don’t realize that because you only care about the Giants. That’s why you’re so worked up about them being better than the Athletics at the end of the year, right? It seems impossible that a team with an actual major league stadium in the best city in the world run by one of the greatest players of all time could wind up with a worse record than a minor league franchise. And, I’m telling you, it won’t happen. It’s impossible. It simply can’t happen.
But if it does, who cares?
