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Two games have been played. Two games have me wanting to punch my TV.

The two matchups with the Dodgers to start the season have some, um, thoughts rummaging around my brain. No, you didn't ask to hear them. But I am going to invite myself to share them anyway.

The Giants, to put it bluntly, haven't played well. At all. Sure, I could talk a ton about how I am excited about baseball happening at all (with the exception of ESPN's z-team of announcers and production crews missing pitches), but I'm kind of tired of that already. Lets get back to talking about the game just like we would if we were annoyed, or happy, in July.

We can get the easy part out of the way first. The Giants aren't a great team right now. The Dodgers, for all intents and purposes, played drastically better than them yesterday. Dustin May gave up some hits early, but he pitched through them. Tyler Rogers couldn't locate, and that was something the Giants couldn't recover from. Mookie Betts ran the bases well, and simply beat them on a couple of good plays.

They played drastically better than them today, too. Jaylin Davis hit a cool home run. That was literally it. Ross Stripling carved them up with changeups and curveballs. The offense couldn't keep up, mustering a baserunner total I am strategically not going to put here. The defense was, well, less than perfect and some mental mistakes were made. Both days, the offense and pitch execution (with the exception of a couple of guys), left much to be desired. Regardless of any level of applied analytics, this level of execution and output normally doesn't lead to victory, but that's rather obvious to us baseball-minded people. These are things that we hope don't keep up, under any circumstances and regardless of a weird preparation timeframe caused by a virus.

Now, lets not get caught up in our frustration- there are some positives, or so I think. Wilmer Flores has hit the ball well. There was that balloon on the field. Jaylin Davis hit a cool home run, remember? Rob Brantly and Tyler Heineman look serviceable.

If this is what it's gonna be this season, than it could be interesting. But if you think adjustments won't be made, I remind you that these are major leaguers. It doesn't matter if Joe McCarthy is your left fielder, because baseball is a game of adjustments where anything can happen. I know, freaking out may seem like an appropriate thing, but it oft leads to rash thinking, which is bad.

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