For the Giants this weekend, it’s heckin’ payback time

You remember the Colorado Rockies, right? Those obnoxious purple monsters who play a mile high and de-soul the Giants about a dozen times a year? Those meanies?

When the Giants have needed a little help from the Rockies, whether it’s beating the Braves just once in the course of a season or the Dodgers at a crucial time, the Rockies have gleefully driven themselves off a cliff, laughing maniacally as they plunge to the bottom of a ravine, all to make sure the Giants don’t get that help and either don’t make the playoffs or have a harder row to hoe in order to get there.

Now it’s the Giants’ turn to roll over and play dead. Or, to stick with the original metaphor, it’s the Giants’ time to run…