Today is opening day in the baseball season. Normally at this time of year all of the baseball pundits are predicting that the Giants will finish bottom of their division, and Giants fans are quietly assuming that these predictions will be wrong again. This year, however, it is Giants fans who are predicting a disastrous season. Of course with 40% of the roster being new, and many of them almost unknown, anything could happen, but I have a bad feeling about this. On the basis of spring training performances I’ll be happy if we win 50 games.

Update: Here’s a pundit who thinks we might win all of 75 games! That’s a 50% improvement on my gloomy prediction.