nbcsports.com file photo: San Francisco Giants starter Madison Bumgarner is working on getting back to being vintage Mad Bum for the Giants

On the SF Giants podcast with Michael and Jeremy:

What the San Francisco Giants need to do to win this upcoming series in Oakland is to sweep, and to win it, you have to win the series and they’ve cleverly figured it out after they found out it’s a crooked number of games to do it. Maybe if it was at AT&T Park, we’ll have a quick rugby game afterwards.

Madison Bumgarner is not vintage Madison Bumgarner, but he’s been pretty darn good. He’s still not commanding of pitches in the strike zone and his breaking ball looks a little weaselly. Bum tries to shave the corner, as he was missing by two or three inches. Three quarters of a Bumgarner is equal to one of anybody else you can find from the National League’s pitching rotation.

Michael Duca does the SF Giants podcast each Friday at http://www.sportsradioservice.com