Good morning, baseball fans!
It’s another weekend of San Francisco Giants baseball. Normally on the weekends I like to pick the player of the week and the highlight of the week. However, most of the Giants have not played any baseball games this week due to the All-Star Game. So it’s kind of hard to pick those things without any games being played.
Instead, I thought it would be a good time to do a temp check, since it’s been a few weeks (if not longer) since we’ve weighed in on how we’re feeling about
this season on the whole.
I can’t say that anything has changed, from my perspective. I’m mildly surprised that they managed to keep themselves from falling down to last place in the division. Not that picking up three of four against the Colorado Rockies means much, but they did manage to keep themselves from being overtaken by them. For now. I feel like there’s still plenty of time for that.
At this point in the season, playoffs are off the table entirely and I would expect a fire sale at the trade deadline if we were talking about a rational and well-operated franchise. But we are not.
Instead, I think I’m adopting the outlook I had in the disastrous second-half of the 2016 season when it seemed like everything that could possibly go wrong did go wrong, and they kept finding new and demoralizing ways to lose. Sometimes you can find a lot of fun in the suffering. And goodness knows there’s very little that is fun about this team to me right now, so I guess I’ll find it where I can.
I’m still absolutely furious at the organization for never actually handling the Pride Night situation, then telling us to stick to sports, and then being terrible at that too.
I think Buster Posey needs to go, if he wants to salvage any of his reputation within the fanbase and the larger baseball world. But I don’t think that is going to happen. Despite it seeming like a glaring conflict of interest for an owner of the team to also be the president of baseball operations, I think that’s exactly what the ownership group wants. Which means I can only assume that this is the on-field product they want too. I hope they’re enjoying it, at least, even if I’m not.
But that’s enough from me. How are you all feeling about this season thus far? What are you hoping to see the team do at the trade deadline? What are you still looking forward to in a seemingly lost season?
What time do the Giants play this weekend?
The Giants continue this weekend road series against the Seattle Mariners, with both Saturday and Sunday’s games scheduled to begin at 1:05 p.m. PT.
