OK, enough agonizing about the Hillenbrand deal.  Either Accardo will be the second coming of Nathan or he won't and all the gnashing of teeth in the world won't change it.  

The Giants have won 4 in a row for the first time all year, including 2 against the first place Padres, the offense is on fire for the first time this year, and it's a fun time to be a Giant fan.  I am excited to check them out tonight and hope they can keep the good times rolling.  Go Giants!

I found this article by Bill James interesting, and thought that some of the more sabermetrically minded might find it so as well.  I'm not the biggest stat-head around, but it seems like James is reevaluating a number propositions that are conventional wisdom in the sabermetric community.

The article is here:

http://www.sabr.org/cmsfiles/underestimating.pdf

The Chron had a little sidebar story about Jerome today:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/07/26/SPGTRDSDMV1.DTL

Nothing really new in there, but it did piss me off.  How can you give up on a 24 year old pitcher who had had some success already, and write it off to needing a "change of scenery?"  What could the Giants have done to get him to lose the weight that Dusty got him to lose?

The whole thing just leaves a bad taste in my mouth, much more so than this wasted season.