Relax, the Season is Just Getting Started, Enjoy it a Little

All around me I see Giants fans running around like in the recent kiddies movie, Chicken Little: "the sky is falling." And maybe it is. But it is too soon in the season to really know what is going on yet. Sure, there are plenty of warning signs (meteor craters?), particularly Friday Night's atrocity, but it is all small samples, skewed by parks.

First, the offense is horrible but the starting pitching is good. But we're playing in pitcher's parks for the most part early on. Now the the offense is revving up but the starting pitching is crap. But now we're playing in hitter's parks. The only constant is that the relievers are all crap and have been, even Worrell now has joined the main group of slackers, only Kline is doing semi-decent.

I'm not saying that we haven't been seeing some horrible baseball so far, despite the winning record. I'm just saying that we need to let things settle down and see what happens. Teams need about 6-8 weeks to settle down to what we can expect from them going forward. That's when teams can reassess without knee-jerk reactions to some players' slumps that's killing this or that in the early weeks of the season.

I recall the 2004 season, many fans were talking trash about the team, one fan talked about how "foresighted" he was about the Giants struggles and generally trashiness. But there were extenuating circumstances surrounding that season's poor start - mainly injuries - and, wouldn't you know it, next thing you know, Schmidt throws a nice game against the Cubs, I think it was a shutout even, and starts the team on a huge run where they played themselves back into contention, as hitters fell out of slumps and the pitchers finally figure things out and do well going forward.

So, for now, enjoy the good that you can find, whether it's a nice starter's outing, or timely hitting, or some homeruns and RBIs, or a reliever shutting down the opposition 1-2-3. The time for consternation over our favorite team's struggles will come soon enough, but right now is too early to really worry (or to get overly excited) about anyone's play unless, that is, he's on the DL for a month or two, then you are REALLY screwed! :^(