Digging..

Pitching is the name of the game. Well actually, Baseball is the name of the game but they could call it anything and the Giants would still find a way to vex me. Conventional wisdom has it that good pitching beats good hitting. Hurling convention to the wind, the Giants have good pitching that can't even beat bad hitting. Not many teams in history can make that claim, mister.

The remarkably accommodating and placid Giants offense has no problem suppressing its collective and possibly phallocentric urge to score runs. Yeah, they do go all Neanderthal from time to time and pound out 15 runs against the Rockies but that is sooo Pleistocene. We have evolved, damn it! Is slapping out extra base hits, even rarely, (and nobody does rarely like the Giants)truly a reflection of the Enlightenment? What sort of character flaw festers in me that makes me want the Giants to score more runs than the barbarians. I am not a glutton, though sloth may indeed apply. Score more runs two out of three, three out of four times and I am one happy cave dweller.

Apparently, the Giants are in possession of some entity referred to as a bullpen. Future archaeologists may postulate that these bullpen folks emerged as foragers intent on saving things but I am guessing they won't find much evidence to support that wacky theory.

I think Mr. Oop sums it up best.

"Starting pitching, good"
"Offense, bad"
"Bullpen?"