We continue with our raging discussion on this year's upcoming baseball season. The rest of the award-winning SFist sports desk will join in as soon as their stupid day jobs let them. Oh, how we long for the days when we were merely crack monkey's chained to computers in Jackson's basement dungeon. Anyways, part I can be seen here and Part 2 here. SFist Chris
The National League West?
Although, after getting crushed 8-3 by the Cardinals yesterday, the Los Angeles Dodgers haven't actually won a post-season game since beating the A's in the 1988 World Series, giving them an unmitigated sixteen year losing streak in the playoffs, you gotta give them credit for just barely edging out the Giants and winning the National League West this year. Well, maybe not under most circumstances, but if you made a bet with LAist about the Dodgers' and Giants' playoff hopes with ten days left in the season, then it seems you do gotta give the Dodgers credit for just edging out the Giants and winning the National League West this year. So alright, here it is, I, Shane, on behalf of all of the SFist staff, am writing a paean to the Dodgers, or at least as much of a paean as I can possibly write without soiling my keyboard, so that Phil Wallace and other members of the LAist staff may gloat. I also have to send Phil a carton of Rice-a-Roni or some other stupid San Francisco treat. (Thank God I vetoed that pound of flesh clause.) So here it comes...
Sunset this evening marks the beginning of Yom Kippur, considered by many to be the most important holiday of the Jewish year.
