Pinch yourselves, Giants fans. Your team is still world champions.
And that's why today's news that budding superstar catcher Buster Posey easily won the National League Rookie of the Year award leaves Giants fans with a feeling we can't really identify. Unlike the past, these kinds of honors aren't silver linings following yet another sour ending to the year. And we don't have to obsess over how Posey may or may not lead the Giants to the promised land.
You see, that already happened. So I guess the feeling fans have today is best defined as "happiness."
That's what it is to be a Giants fan these days. In years past, loss after traumatic, season-killing loss was tossed atop an ever-growing pile. Giants fans carried their bitterness and fear like Jacob Marley's chains.
But those chains are broken. Finally, we can enjoy the game for what it is, without the omnipresent specter of potential failure -- or the real fear of loved ones dying before the team finally won.
As baseball fans go, this is what it is to be happy. Buster Posey deserved this. He's a hell of a player. And we're happy for him.
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