This is the first election that I can recall where there are no bumper stickers.
The reason is obvious: Everyone is embarrassed by the candidates.
Here’s a bumper sticker that I made that describes how I feel:
And here’s one inspired from something my daughter said:
Coincidence?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
P.S. Thompson had just 2 points at half time in the home opener. Klay, please, you’re a classy guy, there’s still time to apologize to we Giants fans that support the Warriors, too.
UPDATE: The Warriors won the next game. I still stand behind the spirit of my post.
It’s hard to be a fan. It’s a tremendous amount of time and emotional energy.
It’s particularly hard to be a fan — after spending a tremendous amount of time and emotional energy — having to watch a manager make the same mistakes over and over and over.
That happened tonight… my San Francisco Giants were eliminated from the baseball playoffs… because of INSANE bullpen management by Bruce Bochy…
… the same INSANE bullpen management style that made the Giants nearly the worst team in baseball after the all star break.
I’m tired of hearing how it’s the players fault… that we don’t have any closers. We had lots ways to close a game… how about just keeping your starting pitcher in when he has a hot hand? Bochy pulled Matt Moore after the 8th even though he was throwing a 2 hitter!
Or how about using one of your other starting pitchers? It was, after all, an ELIMINATION GAME. Any of your starters would have gladly taken the ball… how about Samardzija? Or Blach? Heck, even Madison Bumgarner, who only threw 5 innings last night, would have picked up the ball in an instant.
Or how about letting a fresh Will Smith throw to more than one batter? It’s so painfully clear that Bochy’s platooning style simply wasn’t working.
How about doing ANYTHING other than doing the same ineffective stuff over and over and over?!
This is the second most crushing loss in my five decades or so of being a Giants fan.
And — even harder to swallower — this one was eminently avoidable.
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