First of all, this brilliant picture is off of a site called "executedtoday.com." Really a lovely image, if I do say so, and one that perfectly encapsulates what it has been like to be a Dodgers fan lately.
While some of us have been too busy to blog of late (notwithstanding that we are only 12 days away from the start of college football season), others have been so disgusted by the near loss of a 15 1/2 game lead that the mere thought of putting fingers to keys carried the weight of Leonard Davis five years after his pro career ends. However, on the eve of a massive 3 game series in Colorado, I felt the need to add my thoughts to the ether .... lest the bloodletting soon be completed and render me incapable of offering any more.
I suppose the good fan in me should concede nothing. We have a 3 game lead still, and just as easily as a Colorado sweep of the next three games could erase that lead, a Dodgers sweep could make it 6. Still, Old Mo' is really on the Rockies side, and i get the feeling the Boys in Blue are wilting under the pressure of their first real challenge since Manny arrived last year. Ned Colletti elected to do nothing prior to the trading deadline, and we will see if that is brilliant faith in the young kids or delusional myopia predicated on saving a little money.
Needless to say, I don't have a good feeling at the start of this series. Amazingly, it feels as though the Dodgers have already lost their lead and the series, despite the fact that the Rockies are trotting out Josh Fogg and Jason Hammel (he of the 7.00+ ERA at home) as two of their starters. The way the Dodgers have been hitting, though, I can't see us taking more than one in the series. At this point, I feel it is more likely Vicente Padilla incites a full-blown riot by hitting Todd Helton in the head than that the Dodgers pull 2 of 3. Still, I will be pulling for them, if only because baseball is a synonym for masochism.
