Taylor Swift Controls the Fate of the San Francisco Giants

Bad Jaime Garcia was on full display. Mike Matheny continued his couple day trend, of actually trying to manage. Pulled Jaime early. Reyes was brought in. Walked way too many Cubs. The Cubs failed to put the Cards away early. Left the bases loaded twice. Enter Aledmys Diaz and Brandon Moss with 2 run homers. All good.

The Cardinals win a game they should have lost.

Looks like Jaime’s days as a starter are over. No sense in having Alex Reyes in the bullpen if you have to use him as the long man to cover Jaime. Might as well start. With Wacha and Rosie set to return shortly. Looks like Reyes will be a starter for the rest of the season. Could be just what the club needs to change its mojo. Time will tell.

It’s Matheny’s worse nightmare. Reyes and Weaver in the starting rotation. Wong, Diaz and Grichuk everyday players. Toss in Piscotty, Bowman, Soco and Tui. Matheny has a very young team that he has to rely upon.

Despite all of Matheny’s best efforts. The team has transitioned. Mozeliak’s vision of what this team should be, is now in place. Now it just has to work. Cards will still need help. The Mets are probably in due to the schedule. The Cards will need for the Giants to continue to fail in the second half.

In my never-ending quest to find good analysis of the wild card chase. Found this post on the Ringer. Think it has merit:    

Taylor Swift has magical powers. Telekinesis, for instance: Ordinarily, you’d have trouble getting me out of my seat even if the building were on fire, but throw “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” on the stereo and goddamn if I don’t magically leap to my feet and start dancing.

Taylor Swift also has the power to control Even Year Bullshit, the mystical force that propels otherwise unspectacular Giants teams to victory in the World Series. In 2014, Kelsey McKinney of Vox pointed out that T-Swift’s album releases of Speak Now in 2010, Red in 2012, and 1989 in 2014 were all followed by a San Francisco World Series title within the next week or so. But that leaves unanswered an extremely important question: Why?

Why did Even Year Bullshit start in 2010, not in 2008 or 2006, when T-Swift also released albums? Maybe she didn’t actually have the power to influence baseball games then. Or maybe she simply lacked the motive to use it.

There remains the question of why Swift chose the Giants as her instrument of vengeance, and why she continued the partnership for two more albums. And I don’t know the answer for sure; God moves in mysterious Tays.

Perhaps it’s out of a sense of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” that she timed her next two album releases for the World Series. The 2014 release, 1989, is named after the last odd year the Giants reached the World Series, but Swift told people it was named after the year of her birth to throw everyone off the scent.

A keen observer will note that while the Giants are in line for one of the NL wild-card positions, Swift has not announced an album for this coming fall, which means one of two things: Either Swift is planning a Beyoncé-style ambush release, or she’s planning to let the fall of an even year pass without an album for the first time since 2004, because now it’s no longer the Phillies but the Giants on her shit list.

In lieu of an album, T-Swift has stayed in the news by breaking up with two different boyfriends — Calvin Harris and actor Tom Hiddleston, whom she was totally dating for real and not just posing for photos with — and getting dunked on by Kim Kardashian West.

On July 17, Kardashian released audio of a phone conversation between her husband, Kanye West, and T-Swift in which T-Swift gives permission for Kanye to add a now-controversial line about possibly having sex with her to the song “Famous” on his most recent album, The Life of Pablo. Or at least that’s how it was explained to me.

It’s really the first public black eye for someone who’s managed to pull off the rare double act of being universally known and universally loved. Before this summer, the worst mainstream criticisms of T-Swift were that she was overexposed or that her music was too poppy, to which I say that while I respect your freedom to traffic in bitter rockist contrarianism, would you please take your fedora-wearing, non-TV-owning ass elsewhere when you do it.

Suffice it to say, Swift won’t take this affront lying down. She’s coming back for revenge, against Kimye and everything they touch.

The celebrity alliance that pierced T-Swift’s Teflon body armor for the first time was made official when, on October 21, 2013, Kanye proposed to Kim at no less auspicious a venue than AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants.

On July 17, the Giants had the best record in baseball at 57–36. They were 5.5 games up on the second-place Dodgers, who were without super-duper-ace Clayton Kershaw and in the process of disavowing Yasiel Puig. But Swift’s vengeance was just and mighty, and delivered with such merciless alacrity that even when I wrote about Even Year Bullshit 10 days later, I hadn’t yet realized that the Giants had already had their hamstrings cut.

It’s obvious now. Since the Kardashian incident, the Giants are 20–29. They’ve fallen nearly as far behind the Dodgers as they were ahead eight weeks ago. Failing a sudden change of heart, followed by an album release, they’re done for, smote by a goddess they relied on, but later took for granted. Take a look at what you’ve done, Giants. Because now you’ve got bad blood.

Source: Taylor Swift Controls the Fate of the San Francisco Giants

Well that is all I need. Taylor will take care of the Giants. 

Taylor is currently between boyfriends. Thinking Stephen Piscotty would be the ideal replacement for Tom Hiddleston. Taylor would make an excellent first lady when Piscotty is elected President. Swiftotty has a nice ring to it. 

Karlie Kloss one of Taylor’s main squad members, is a Cardinal die-hard fan. St. Louis girl. Karlie needs to make this happen. It’s the least we can do, now that Taylor has taken care of the Giants.

CarMart against Lester tonight. Would be a big deal if the Cards could actually win the series. Would make a happy flight to the coast, to play the Giants.

Go Cards.

Later.