Your post was about “free fall” over the last month or six weeks, and some reasons you gave for its occurring. It was not about long-term deficiencies. I tried to show your original argument was flimsy, as you invited readers to do; and your dropping it perhaps suggests I was successful. You have now switched to a different argument bearing on a different period of time. I don’t have any objection to your “proof” that the Giants have in recent years had a lousy offense, though I don’t know that the lack of a “hitting philosophy” is the reason, or even a reason, for it. But I don’t know where you get the idea that I believe the team is jinxed, or that I believe in jinxes. I don’t. Baseball players, though, are notoriously superstitious, and might have a growing sense of jinx. When everything you’re doing sputters or fails, and key players keep on getting injured, you can either let your feelings coagulate into a sort of superstition (“it just wasn’t meant to be” = fate or jinx) or remain bewildered and gloomy, like Bochy.

J. Sanchez, Wilson, Romo, Ross, Casilla, Torres, Burrell, etc. Individually perhaps they don’t amount to much, but together that’s at least another few wins. I would also think that part of the poor performance when those guys haven’t been hurt is due to lingering injury – not all of it, but I find it hard to believe that most of those guys went from being an above-average regular to a below-average liability in true talent level. I think the injuries are playing a role in the poor performance.