The Dodgers sure know how to take things down the the wire. I have not been this frustrated with my Dodgers since they traded away Mike Piazza back in 1998. They have been teetering on the edge of completely blowing a promising season, to possibly squeaking into the playoffs sometime in the last few games of the season. Just when I think they are about to let me down, they keep doing things to make me hopeful. There are six games left in the season and the Dodgers need to win at least five of them, unless some other teams have enough key losses. This will be an unbelievable collapse of a team that has been given more than enough pieces to pull it off. I just wonder what the biggest problem could be. Is it a chemistry issue? An injury issue? Something I am not even close to thinking of? Why can't the Dodgers buy a ring, the way the Yankees do almost every year? It is finally a year where they went out and spent some money. I have had to suffer through multiple years of missing out on some great players because they either didn't want to spend the money or offer a contract for too many years. So with all the hope that we got from the trades this year and the willingness for the owners to spend the money to get the players that were needed for a playoff run, we are sitting here watching the whole 162 game season come down to the last six games of the year. I was very close to giving up on them and start with the saying that it was going to be about next year. Then, Kershaw came back instead of ending the season with surgery, so there is hope. I am going to keep on hoping for a great finish. There have been stranger things to happen, so why not have them happen to the Dodgers this year?
This Day In History: 1989
Two men went over the 176-foot-high Niagara Falls in a barrel. Jeffrey Petkovich and Peter Debernardi were the first to ever survive the Horshoe Falls.
Born This Day: 1949
Mike Schmidt - Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player.
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot."
-Michael Althsuler
Of course he did, he is a stinking Giants fan.
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