I never caught up with TedQuarters San Francisco correspondent and frequently frustrated Giants fan Dailey McDailey upon the Giants’ playoff berth, and it’s a Friday and, to use his words, nothing clever is coming to mind. So here’s that.

TedQuarters: I never formally followed up with you, the TedQuarters San Francisco correspondent, about the Giants’ playoff appearance.

Dailey McDailey: Well, I’m still here, and I’m wearing my awesome Hawaiian shirt.

TQ: Recall that last we left off, you were cursing Brian Sabean for the Fred Lewis thing. And now the Giants are in the playoffs.

DM: And the Giants are still one outfielder short, since Aaron Rowand and Nate Schierholtz are on the roster. But Pat Burrell’s resurgence is the sort of thing that usually doesn’t happen for the old guys the Giants sign.

TQ: So Sabean and crew have gotten a bit lucky?

DM: In the roster construction department? Well, yes. Andres Torres, Aubrey Huff, and Juan Uribe have all been surprisingly good. And usually good teams don’t get surprised by how good they are.

On the flip side, Pablo Sandoval can’t hit on the road anymore, and hits into double plays at a Pierzynskian rate. But that’s four positive surprises to one negative. Thus, division championship.

TQ: Plus there’s the whole Buster Posey thing, which probably goes down as positive surprise, all told.

DM: I’m not very surprised by it to tell you the truth. I didn’t think he’d have this much home run power as a rookie, but other than that, he’s the player everyone told us he was when the Giants drafted him.

TQ: Yeah but I think you put way too much stock in all the animal sacrifices you’ve performed at the feet of your Buster Posey statue.

DM: On the advice of my attorney, I’m not going to respond to that

TQ: All their pitchers had pretty good years, too. Lincecum was sub-Lincecum-like, but Jonathan Sanchez put it together and they got good work out of Bumgarner,

DM: Yeah, most teams would love to be able to build their own staff from within like the Giants have, but for all his faults Sabean has always had an eye for pitching talent, and Dave Righetti seems to know how to turn that talent into a consistently good rotation.

TQ: So are you less inclined to [deleted for decency] Brian Sabean’s face right now?

DM: No. As good as this team is, it could have been much better with sound roster management starting, I don’t know, seven years ago.

This was always my problem during the Bonds years. You get no credit for winning 90 games when you start with the best player in baseball history. You have to use the other 24 spots to win 105 games. Also, winning 90 games starting with the four best 20-something pitchers in the league is not an accomplishment as much as an inevitability

TQ: Well that’s an overstatement but we’ll let it slide because you’re obviously amped up about your Gigantes. What of Bruce Bochy?

DM: Ever since Bengie Molina got traded away, he’s made all the right moves as far as I’m concerned. Especially in September, when the outfield was a jumbled mess, he deftly used Burrell and Guillen early to score runs, and then subbed in Ross and Schierholtz for defense late.

TQ: Did he look as awesome in person last night as he did on TV before I fell asleep?

DM: Awesomer? He had it all working.

TQ: Anything else you’d like to add for the TedQuarters faithful?

DM: Nothing clever is coming to mind.

TQ: Well, you had a late night.