If the 2024 San Francisco Giants and the 2024 Seattle Mariners were to play a season’s games solely against each other, both teams would end with a .500 record.
A long desert of tit-for-tat, of minuscule gains written in mutable grains of sand, stretching towards a horizon perpetually in the distance. A hellish landscape, really, that might feel a bit like this year. Progress in one area undermined by digression in another. The end of August, 132 games, played and where are they now?
The Giants are playing .500 ball over their last 132 games.