

There was no way to pick just one example of the San Francisco Giants giving themselves a wedgie on Thursday and hanging themselves on a flagpole. They did it seemingly every inning, 19 of them in total. Andrew Baggarly has the full, excruciating recap here, and it reads like “Mr. Bean: The Novel.” You’ve watched bad Giants teams before, but you’ve never watched one this bumbling.When a team is this much of an outlier or an extreme, it’s only natural to point fingers. It’s also necessary at this point. This is the kind of bumbling that needs to be identified and quarantined as quickly as possible. Nobody is immune to speculation. Everyone gets a flashlight in the face and a direct question: What did you have to do with all this darned bumbling?The manager will receive a lot of the criticism, and Tony Vitello has done plenty to earn it. Strategically, he manages like someone who hasn’t absorbed a lot of Major League Baseball over the last couple of decades. Apparently, the difference between college and the majors is more analogous to the differences between Italian and Spanish than the ones between American English and British English. It’s not a
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