Thursday, June 17, 2004

 

Making Order Out of Chaos

I'm having a hard time figuring out the Giants this year. Heck, I'm having a hard time with the entire National League West, top to bottom. The Giants have occupied first place, last place, and all places in between. They've won ten in a row, they've been .400 as late as May. They've shuffled players in and out like a Twilight Zone episode featuring a clown car.

But lo and behold, the mists are rising and the sun is seeping through. I checked the standings this morning, and saw this lovely sight at the top of the NL West:

Los Angeles    34  28  .548  --

San Francisco  34  31  .523  1.5

San Diego      33  31  .516  2

The Giants are now in second place (and of course they're not going back down to third ever again). The race for the NL West is now as it should always be--a tussle between the hated Los Angeles Dodgers and our boys, the Giants of renown and legend.

Oh boy, this could be a great summer!!

I can't quite tell you if the Giants are a bad team on a good streak right now, or if they're a fair team who came out of the blocks and ran right into a minefield. For crying out loud, Pedro Feliz has walked nine times already this year, and Grissom 14 times! Can you possibly explain that? I can't.

And right now, I don't care.

It's the Giants and the Dodgers, and that's exactly how it's supposed to be. Somebody call Paul DePodesta and tell him we want to see Lasorda on the field at Pac Bell next week, waving and stirring up trouble. Let's rock the foundations with chants of "Dodgers suck!" Somebody find Krazy Krab and have him lock LoDuca into a locker at the Transbay Terminal--just in case. (Then we'll lock the Krab into the next locker, to keep him from getting any bright ideas about coming back.)

Forget the stupid Red Sox. Let's clear the rest of the year's schedule and replace it with 97 occurrences of Giants v. Dodgers.

Let's find Brian Johnson, Bobby Thomson, Marvin Benard, Joe Morgan, and every other Giant who ever broke the Bums' hearts with a walkoff home run and bring them out for another curtain call. Before every inning.

Let's drive Eric Gagne crazy from boredom from having no games to save. Let him take up origami or macaroni sculpture to keep him busy.

Let's have some fun.

What? Yeah, I have tickets for Monday night's Dodgers/Giants game. Why do you ask?

Jefferson 7:48 AM

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