Last season was not fun. It was, perhaps, the least fun I’ve ever had following a Giants team. For years and years, I used the 2008 season as a shorthand way to refer to a team that was devoid of fun, except that was the year Pablo Sandoval busted out. Tim Lincecum won a Cy Young. It was a ball pit filled with kittens compared to last season. Before that, the bad seasons usually came with a side of Barry Bonds.
Last season had almost nothing. Buster Posey being his steady, possible-future-Hall-of-Famer self was the highlight. Everything else got sucked into the wheat thresher, often right when you started to get used to it finally being one of the good stories.