I won’t waste much of your time here. What I’m about to say has already been eluded to.
Here’s Bryan, in Wednesday’s recap, after the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 7-5 to build a four-game winning streak:
It’s not only a different story twenty days later, it’s a different feeling versus the one we’ve felt for this team since, I don’t know, the second half of 2016 — dread — and it’s a feeling most of us probably thought wouldn’t be one we’d dust off until Johnny Cueto returned: joy.