{"id":14532,"date":"2013-06-01T16:35:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T20:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2013\/06\/01\/14532.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:06:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:06:18","slug":"29-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2013\/06\/01\/29-25\/","title":{"rendered":"29-25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I happened to notice, the other day, an old note of mine from January 2010, when I was feeling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/01\/20\/12718.html\">Despondent<\/a> about my Giants. Specifically I was despondent about the signing of Bengie Molina, but included in that was a general despondency about the team being in a good-but-not-good-enough period again: <i>they aren&#8217;t a team that should be looking to Win It All this year<\/I>, said I. And, of course, they did win it all in 2010 and again in 2012. Which is a lesson about taking anything YHB says seriously.\n<P>My guys are 29-25 right now, exactly a third of the way through the season (if my arithmetic is correct) and four games over .500. They&#8217;re a game and a half behind the D-Backs and a game ahead of the Rockies, and a wonderful six games ahead of the bad guys. I&#8217;d rather be in first, of course, but they are doing fine: a good April, a mediocre May. If they play like they did in April, they will win the division; if they play like they did in May&#8230; they might just win the division anyway. If they go back and forth&#8212;well, call it 87-75, and while it&#8217;s short of a Good Team, it&#8217;s solidly a Pretty Good Team. And as implied above, I have started to expect the team to do better than I expect them to do. So <I>that<\/i>&#8217;s all right.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger wrote the note before they were 29-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16695,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14532\/revisions\/16695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}