The 2022 San Francisco Giants won as many games as they lost. We said of them “so it goes” as many times as “there they go.” Room temperature. No seasoning. A test pattern. A DVD instead of a Blu-ray. A cool breeze on a hot day — and a high pollen count. Rain in a drought — on your wedding day.
And yet, it wasn’t bittersweet, because the only aspect of the team that a reasonable person might find bitter is the record coming off of last year’s 107 wins. Carlos Rodon, Logan Webb, Alex Cobb, Thairo Estrada, some of Joc Pederson’s performance, the emergence of David Villar, and the J.