tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735245.post1476628154778457588..comments2024-02-23T20:49:09.057-08:00Comments on obsessivegiantscompulsive: Your 2011 Giants are 62-49: Pheeling it, Beat the Philliesobsessivegiantscompulsivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11362706004246875823noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735245.post-53647374150506648602011-08-09T22:35:35.867-07:002011-08-09T22:35:35.867-07:00If you don't like what I write, don't both...If you don't like what I write, don't bother reading. I'm an acquired taste, and if you expect perfection you can look elsewhere.<br /><br />That said, I should have realized that with such a good rotation facing the offense, any offense, even the best, would have been shut down pretty much, so not my best shining moment there. I do make mistakes, as the song goes ("How Soon is Now?"), I am human. <br /><br />But I am pretty sure, because I read most of the other regular Giants bloggers, that I'm the only Giants blogger to have guided my readers along the general arc of the Giants improvement over the past 4 seasons (2008-2011), so that you could have anticipated the improvement in 2009, and enjoyed the success the team has had winning since then.<br /><br />If you prefer jokes at the expense of the Giants, slanted opinion, incorrect theories, other bloggers who makes mistakes (sure, I missed that on the offense, but I was the one who wanted to keep Lincecum, Cain, Sanchez, Bumgarner together, and most others wanted to trade one of those pitchers at one time or another, or worse, wanted other players in the draft instead of, say, Bumgarner and Posey (one major site castigated the Giants for passing up Smoak for Posey: without Posey, there would have been no 2010 World Championship; everyone makes mistakes), then I suggest you go elsewhere. <br /><br />But honestly, if you are as discerning about blogs as your comment suggests, then you would know that if you are reading almost any other Giants blog over the past few years, but didn't keep track of the wins and losses, you know that you would think that the Giants were losers of the first order, incompetent in winning, not a team who has been averaging 90 wins a season.<br /><br />So, if you want a point of view of how the Giants can be successful, taking an objective view of the team (or as objective as a fan can be), someone who will stand up against popular opinion because he feels he is correct but who doubts his position constantly, someone who reads regularly sabermetric research and take that into account, yet is someone who is not wedded to sabermetrics, someone who is passionate about the Giants but is willing to take on Giants management when I think that they are full of it, then you came to the right place.<br /><br />I will make mistakes, but feel that my general view of the Giants have been pretty accurate for a number of years now, I just don't get every nitty gritty detail correct. If that is a problem, then I can't help you, you will need to work on yourself first. <br /><br />If making a mistake was a big worry for me, I wouldn't even bother blogging. Everyone makes mistakes, I learned long ago, and I stopped flogging myself for it.<br /><br />If I had been embarrassing myself by suggesting the Giants trade Lincecum, Cain, or Bumgarner, like many fans and columnists have, or that they should have chosen Smoak over Posey, like a blogger has, then I wouldn't bother blogging, I would try to be a humorist or comedian instead of a commentator on the Giants. If I ever find that most of the stuff I write here is full of it, I would stop writing and move on.<br /><br />I write because I am curious and want to know things about the Giants through research. I've been researching for over 30 years now, a Giants fan for 40 years. I will share my experience and knowledge, and if some people enjoy, great.<br /><br />If you don't, you know where you can go (to other blogs, that is :^). <br /><br />FYI, the Giants are still in first place, I'm enjoying myself like I have for a number of years now. If you can't stand close games, you shouldn't follow baseball, lots of close games every year, that is why closers are so important.obsessivegiantscompulsivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11362706004246875823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23735245.post-81261940691227117672011-08-09T08:48:29.994-07:002011-08-09T08:48:29.994-07:00'Hitting could be on the verge of breaking out...'Hitting could be on the verge of breaking out'<br /><br />Since that game, runs scored: 0, 2, 1, 3, 0Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com