The San Francisco Giants are 10 games under .500. The team’s on-base percentage is currently .294, which would be a modern-era worst. They owe roughly a half-billion dollars to three hitters, all of whom have an OPS+ under 100. Their ace and franchise pitcher is on the injured list with an ERA over 5.00. Two-thirds of the outfield is on the IL. Former Giants all around baseball — from Kyle Harrison to Otto López to Kai-Wei Teng to Dominic Smith to James Tibbs III — are thriving, which sure makes you wonder.It’s been a miserable season to be a Giants fan, with the team offering some of the most frustrating baseball that’s ever been played in the majors. They’ll show flashes of getting unstuck, of being the team they were supposed to be before the season started, only to tumble right back into the quicksand. It’s more of a brackish mud pit, really, and it smells absolutely awful in there. Whoops, they’re stuck in there again.Considering all of the above, the outfielders gotta stop being so damned cute after their weekly win. I don’t make the rules. I just read the room.An old friend who doesn’t follow baseball reached out to me:Some of the texts that wake you up at 6:00 a.m. are texts you’re expecting. This was not one of them. For the blissfully uninitiated: The Giants had a surprisingly uncomfortable postgame celebration earlier in the month, and they were told to knock it off. Since then, they’ve danced around the topic by recreating different parts of a very funny, very 12-years-old Key & Peele sketch.
It’s fun to see the Giants celebrating their wins, but the timing needs to be better
This team wants to be so, so much fun. They're so close. It's not going to happen without wins, though.













