As we head into this week's edition of THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SERIES OF THE SEASON THIS WEEK it's time to take a look back and see how we got here as this past week (season) has pretty much been one emotional roller coaster.  A very scary one too, with all sorts of loop-de-loops and fast speeds and sharp turns and people throwing up on you.  It was about a week ago when the Giants went into Colorado for last week's MOST IMPORTANT SERIES OF THE SEASON THIS WEEK and things did not go, err, well.  The Giants lost three out of four in the most grueling, horrendous, awful fashion, blowing three straight games in which they held the lead (including a 6-1 lead), wasted great starts by Timmy and Barry Zito, and scored barely any runs in a park known mainly for being an easy place to score runs in.  Oh, and then there was last Monday's game but the least said about it, the better.  

After Monday's night game, a game which had people waxing poetic about just how awful of a game it was and trying to place it in a sadly long-list of Giants' heartbreaks (none of which will be mentioned here), most Giants fans had pretty much thrown in the towel and declared that the Giants were most definitely not in it.  Then, two late-inning rallies against the Diamondbacks later-- one in incredibly improbable, Kirk Gibson-like fashion (Bengie Molina's eighth-inning pinch-hit home run), Giants fans are once again thinking "well, maybe, you know, we still could kinda be in this thing."

So here we go into this weekend's series.  The Giants now have the Rockies in their very friendly turf, have their three best starters going (Lincecum, Zito, and Cain), and a fan base that is once again on board for the rseason.  They are, however possibly down Molilna and Sandoval and what's his face, the guy they got from the Pirates who was supposed to be a good hitter.  There is no truth to the rumors that Lou Seal will be the next clean up hitter.

What should we expect to see this series?  Well, a sweep would be super-swell and a Rockies sweep would kind of suck but that's easy to say.  Expect bouts of lousy offense mixed in with great pitching followed by nail-biting final innings that will end in any sort of torturous ways that will make Giants fans' feel like they've aged a year or two.  And expect that after one game, Giants fans everywhere will throw away their Giants gear and give up on the season only to be followed by them grabbing their Giants gear and praising the team to high heaven.  Or vice versa.  Or sometimes all in the same game.

In other words, expect the usual.