Bunts?

I am not a big fan of the sacrifice bunt. I understand there may be a time when it's a good strategy, particularly when pitchers are at the plate but mostly it's just giving away outs. Should this Giants offense give away outs regularly?

A few games back, Ryan Klesko had a big game and included with a jack and a double he had a magnanimous and fundamentally sound sacrifice bunt. But why? If memory serves, and mine seldom earns a fat tip for service, Randy Winn opened an inning with a double and Bochy had Klesko bunt him over to 3rd. By the way, I don't really know much about Bochy but he appears to embody a palette of colorless imagination that leaves me begging for the complexity of beige. However, that is a horse of a different color. I believe we were talking about sacrifice bunts.

Klesko's bunt worked. Winn got to third and eventually scored. There were compelling reasons to let ol' Klesko swing away too. Winn was already in scoring postion. Klesko tends to pull the ball when he hits it on the ground. Teams have taken to an over shift when he is at the plate so it's no secret. He is also a big strapping lug that can get an extra base hit setting up a possible crooked number inning. He may have struck out but Winn would still be in scoring position.

Instead, the Giants chose to give up a lot of the potential good clean fun of a big inning and engaged in a strategy that was already old and lifeless when John McGraw was a young manager. It was the safe thing to do. It's certainly been a time tested maneuver. I am not busting Bochy or the Giants for this. You see teams bunt that guy to third in the same situation quite often...It makes me grind my teeth almost every time it happens.

I fully cop to old fogeyism but even I am willing to embrace a far more judicious use of the sacrifice bunt. Swing that bat. Let's get a petition drive together.