The San Francisco Giants just finished their two post All-Star break series with the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers as a success, winning five of seven and getting themselves back into the National League wild card race and within four games of the San Diego Padres.
You can take away a few things from these showdowns to try to keep that sunny outlook after winning the Southern California series with the Dodgers. However, being that we have to be objective and take the sobering look at the race, we are forced to draw the following conclusion:
Sure the Giants are hot, but still have to play in the Western Division. This is, quite frankly where the Giants stink like hot garbage.
The control of the division is still in the hands of every other team in the Western Division and the Giants still have to beat them all to save the farm. The Giants are
11-21 against their competition in the West. With a 41-22 record against everyone else, you have to wonder how much of this is mental.
Eugene Valdez Eugene Valdez is a lifelong suffering Giants' fan who has admired the A's from afar for their four World Series titles. He is a Silicon Valley software specialist by day and a Major League Baseball correspondent by night who, being surrounded by four girls and a wife, enjoys finally being able to state an opinion without being corrected.
