San Francisco Giants: ‘Torture’ is in Full Effect

If the San Francisco Giants were just a bad team, then these woeful last couple months would be tolerable—or at least reconciled through emotional detachment and a turning an eye toward 2017. If the Giants had come out of the San Diego series—during which they suffered a three-game sweep to a bottom dweller—and lost the first two games of the Cardinals series, it would be much easier to just let go of hope, accept that the Giants are no longer contenders, and let the season run its course.

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