Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time wondering why I — and this is perhaps a controversial opinion — find this season of San Francisco Giants baseball so much more palatable than last year’s. The Giants have been the very definition of a mediocre baseball team, as was the case last year, as was the case the year before.
And with every failed bullpen game, every squandered bases-loaded situation, every feckless defeat, the 2024 season feels more and more like the 2023 season that ended with you flipping through your local community college’s annual catalog, seeing if any new hobbies might catch your eye.