September 26, 2005
Baseball Fever — Inoculate Against It!
So the Giants, who have now clinched a losing record for the season, are still alive in the season’s final week. Talk about an amazing run — even in a meaningless, lost season, there are still a glut of meaningful games. It’s crazy.
But really, this is all due to the ineptitude of the entire National League West, a division whose players should be relegated to AAA — not the minor league, the auto club — for 2006. The Dodgers have sunk like a stone. The Giants have fought back from a terrible start to become merely mediocre.
And the Padres, oh the Padres. Still flirting with a sub-.500 record, and eyeing that first-round series with St. Louis straight in the face. It’s almost impossible that the Giants will sweep the Padres at home this week, but still, this should have been over a month ago. Instead, the Padres are stumbling horribly. When they finally clinch — which I think they’ll probably do in the next four games against the Giants — I don’t think they should break out the champagne. Instead, how about a nice thermos of coffee?
