It's the Same Old Song!!!

Dear Readers;   It is getting very difficult to be positive in my writing about the Giants when they are finding different ways to lose everyday.  Granted they were up against a very hot Chicago White Sox today, but despite two comebacks they still lose, 13-8.  In baseball, generally no one person can be blamed for losses day in and day out, except perhaps the manager, who pulls the strings, but, even Billy Martin, who had a great deal of success managing numerous teams, said the manager only effects the outcome of about 15 games a year...The sheer talent is there, the know-how is there, the wins are not.  They have lost almost twice as many as they have won.  The only reason they are in third place is that the Rockies and Padres are playing very poorly to this point in the season, the quarter mark of 162 games.  Is there any answer?  Like, I would know!  Grown men are paid millions of dollars per year to play a little boy's game, one that I could have only hoped to do when I was sliding around those bases when I was 13 years old. There is no immediate help in Fresno, though bringing up a new player is not always the answer.  There is no saviour there, there may not even be a there, there...Brian Sabean, the General Manager, has been roundly criticized for not developing home grown talent during his decade plus tenure.  The Giants do draft a lot of young pitchers.  Fans will recognize these names: Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano, Boof Bonzer, Jeremy Accardo, all drafted and developed by the Giants (Nathan won 12 games one season, mostly in relief.)  I'm not one to question the wisdom of men with more baseball knowledge than I will ever have, but c'mon...Who is to say that any of these pitchers would have been even as good as they are with the Giants...Giants have a rich history , I was privileged to witness some of it in the 1960's and 1970's...Heck, I went to college in San Francisco so I could go to Giants games.  The college thing was an excuse to get me 58 miles closer to my team...I probably bleed orange and black...The great Tony Gwynn, (I call him the 'Hit Man,) used to tape everyone of his at bats and take them with him on the road and study them.  That is why he is in the Hall of Fame, because he taught himself to be a good hitter...Perhaps we need something like that.  There are no Tony Gwynn's out there however...They have played 27% of there games, more than enough time to make this thing respectable...A real fan sticks around, doesn't change hats or loyalties because of losing seasons, otherwise there would be no Chicago Cubs fans and the Atlanta Braves might be in Tampa Bay, because in the late 1980's and early 1990's, they were drawing 5,000 fans per night!  But then they started winning!...Enough said!  Good reading