The San Francisco Giants franchise is healthier today than it was on September 28, 2018. We all know this, but for those of us who try to find the humor in everything — if only to ease the pain — one can’t help but see all the parallels and chuckle (with existential dread).
It was 1,829 days ago that the team fired GM Bobby Evans. Since then, they’ve had a franchise-record 107-win season and their first-ever .500 season. They’ve mostly been unimpressive, though. Even that 107-win season is tainted by the juiced balls MLB provided (probably as a way of enticing people to come back to the yard after the COVID-19 season) which made the Giants think they were better than they were after setting a franchise-record for home runs (241); and, of course, it ended with an NLDS loss to the Dodgers.