The Giants have lost eight in a row, but that’s not actually the bad news. The bad news is that there’s no silver lining. There’s nothing to root for. Thanks to injuries and ineffectiveness, the Giants have no stars to be a calm in the storm or September call-up to dream on for the future. It’s all bad and hard to imagine it magically getting better just because the calendar flips over to a new year.
But that’s just a pessimist’s macro view. The micro view is that the Giants played another bad game in their 8-game losing streak and nothing they did that might be considered “good” was actually good.