NL West In California State Of Mind

September 11, 2009
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Baseball sticks by our side all summer long, suffering with us through the heat and humidity, serving up background noise for backyard barbeques. And what do we do when Labor Day arrives? Send it packing for the trophy spouse that is football. We're bad people.

USC-Ohio State and the first NFL Sunday are the weekend headliners, but baseball isn't going away without a fight. Clinging to a two-game lead in the NL West, the Dodgers visit the rival Giants, while the Rockies get the woeful Padres. And fighting for the wild-card, both the Rangers and Red Sox face potential spoilers with winning records in the Mariners and Rays, respectively.

All of which raises an excellent question, as posed by commenter ElGrizzly. If you're a Rockies fan, are you rooting for the Dodgers to sweep and give Colorado acres of breathing room for the wild card, or are you rooting for the Giants to sweep and put the division title up for grabs? Where's Monty Hall when you need him?

elgrizzly
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as a rockies fan, i do not know which team i would rather see lose..... i need both teams to lose

” -- ElGrizzly

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