What an ignominious weekend for Bay Area baseball. Saturday, 2 October 2004 will long be remembered as a dark day for Northern California baseball fans. After a big win over LA on Friday night, the Giants' bullpen collapsed as dramatically as any Dodgers fan could ever hope on Saturday afternoon, leaving the team's fate in the hands of the pathetic Colorado Rockies, who got swept by the red hot Astros in Houston this weekend. When the Rockies lost on Sunday, midway through the game in LA, the Giants' season was over. The A's, who needed to win two games over Anaheim this weekend, looked even worse in getting crushed on Friday night and then letting the Angels come from behind on Saturday to clinch a division title right there in Oakland. The Giants and A's both had desultory victories on Sunday.

SFist kinda wants to throw up just writing about this, so either we wrap up this piece right here or our keyboard gets covered in vomit. Either way, that's all you get. Until tomorrow, at least, when we write favorably about the Dodgers, thus fulfilling part of the bet we lost to LAist.