Brian Murphy

Meanwhile, Farhan’s decision to DFA Joe Panik today marks his first break with the World Series core, and speaks to several things, among them Donovan Solano and Scooter Gennett’s immediate future, Mauricio Dubon’s long-term future and Joe Panik’s declining recent past.

Nobody wants to see this happen.

It started in mid-June, a little flicker when they won four straight against the Padres and Brewers. But, naw, back then the Giants were 30-38, eight games under and we were all busy enmeshed in Warriors drama, ACLs, Achilles tendons, all that.

Was it just back on June 13, less than a month ago, that Steph Curry launched a shot from the left wing that, had it fallen, would have extended the NBA Finals to a Game 7?

On this week’s episode of “To Tell the Truth”, Kevin Durant-style, we present the two competing truths.

If and when the inevitability of a Bumgarner trade happens in the next month, we will all miss — sorely — Bumgarner vs the Dodgers, and the Dodgers vs Bumgarner. There won’t be anyone left in black and orange who quite lays his emotions bare like Bumgarner.

Their bodies gave way, but not before they made it two wins shy of the mountaintop. Out on their shield. And that’s OK, sports fans.

When the Giants’ 2019 MLB Draft Class meets for its first chips-and-dip social mixer this summer, forgive Texas Tech pitcher Caleb Kilian if he feels a little left out.

In the land where basketball’s inventor was born, the Warriors got spanked in a game America thought it owned. Final score, Game 1. 2019 NBA Finals: Canada’s Darlings 118, America’s Most Hated Team 109.

Durant had not spoken since we were all so sure he had torn his Achilles in Game 5 vs. Houston.