As the San Francisco Giants continue their assault on optimism and conclude their decade-long project to render themselves irrelevant, there’s a hierarchy in opponents you’d like to see them face and the Tampa Bay Rays are not one of those teams.

What I’d like to see is the Giants play a team they have a chance against. They had that teeny-tiny-silly 4-2 blip against the Mets (who are collapsing at nearly the same hilarious rate the Giants did) and Pirates that gave too many people a false sense that the team was still in the playoff chase, but for others it simply demonstrated signs of life. The Giants have worked really, really hard to make it clear to their fans that they are either quite dead or really, really don’t care how bad they look, and the Rays are one of those teams are happy

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