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... more ›

Back in the halcyon days when SFist was launching and the Giants were getting their collective ass handed to them by the lowly Cincinnati Reds, it was looking pretty grim down at Third and King, and SFist was starting to think about next year for San Francisco baseball. But, oh, how things have changed. SFist got its playoff tickets in the mail yesterday and is pretty psyched about the idea of October baseball as the Giants are coming together at just the right time. more ›