The Problem with San Francisco Giants Fans Thinking Young

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And look at the Royals now. They're once again looking a couple years down the road instead of now.

Do Giants fans really want to go through the same thing?

We were a team that was one bad inning away from a World Series championship seven years ago.

We are an organization that hasn't won a championship since moving from New York to San Francisco.

I don't want to keep looking to the future. I want to win a title now, and I believe our team can win a title now as well. This isn't some scrub team we're putting out in the field like in 2007 and 2008. We have legitimate aces, one of the league's most underrated bullpens, and a good manager to put us over the top.

There's nothing wrong with going young to a point. The Boston Red Sox in 2007 and Tampa Bay Rays in 2008 showed that if you combine the right amount of young players and veterans, you can make serious noise.

It produced a second title for Boston, and helped the Rays go the World Series.

So why not go with that? Why not try to get a veteran bat (be it now or in the offseason), and maybe sacrifice a couple of phenoms? What is wrong with putting a guy in the lineup that has proved himself at the next level over a guy that has only mashed minor league pitching?

And what is wrong with getting a veteran who could immediately give us a shot at the title? Is the potential of 2012 more important than winning a World Series championship at the present moment?

I know people will disagree with me and tell me that the Giants can't win now, and that nobody expects them to win now either.

They will tell me that the only way to be successful as a franchise is to look to our farm system and the future.

If that is the case, nothing I say will get to you. I will be just wasting my breath when I say that this team can make a run now, and not just in two years.

And I'm also sure a World Series trophy or Gordon's flailing career won't help my cause either, despite how important those images are.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

All I can say is that if we continue this mindset, we should play more games with the Kansas City Royals.

At least we'll have something in common to talk about with their fans when we head to the ballpark.

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