My Kind Of Mojo

WOW. Well, as I’ve said on numerous occasions, I love being wrong when it means the Dodgers win. Yesterday’s game was a thing of beauty. The Dodgers won only their second post season game since 1988 and they did it IN Chicago against the best team in the NL! Could it be that the Dodgers are, in fact, the best team in the NL? Since Torre has fulfilled my wish by leaving Scott Proctor off the ALDS roster, they may just be.

If you’re anything like me, you were certain James Loney was done after flailing away on the first 2 pitches from Dempster with the bases juiced and 2 outs in the 5th. How does he crush that ball like that to dead center with the wind blowing in? One grand slam and one grand victory and the Dodgers could advance for the first time since my grand-mas were still alive. Like I said, they have this intangible – this mojo. I still don’t believe, even with a healthy Furcal, they belong on the same field with the Cubbies, but Id love for them to prove me wrong. And they’re off to one hell of a start. Manny gulfs a pitch with one hand half way up the left field bleachers. Never seen anything like it. Magic. Mojo. Russell Martin sure hit the ball hard yesterday batting in front of Manny, but still, I’m a little fuzzy on why Torre has Manny hitting 3rd and Ethier hitting behind Manny, when they had so much success with Andre hitting in front of Manny. I won’t question anything if they can keep winning. However, in spite of yesterday’s surprising turn of events, I’m still a little dubious regarding their chances. It seems odd that the Cubs would simply go away, but stranger things have certainly happened in past Octobers. My feeling is, whoever wins tonight takes the series. Here’s hoping Billingsley returns to his August form and can keep the mighty Cub bats quiet. This is fun, isn’t it?

Not so fun for the Angels and their fans. Boy were they flat yesterday and boy, do I fkn’ hate Red Sox Nation. Ironic that 2 of the 3 teams with the best records in baseball, lost yesterday. (Angels – 100 wins, Cubs – 97 wins) Look, in all honesty, I felt the Angels were potential World Champions from Day 1 and I still feel that way (in spite of my prediction in my last blog, in which I make the Cubs fans’ 100 year wait finally pay off) but the Red Sox, pound for pound, are the slightly stronger team and the Halos can ill afford to let them get off to a lead in the series. Cancer survivor John Lester shut them down and Vlad Guerrero pulled a Matt Kemp on the bases, but he’s without Kemp’s speed, so it looked even worse. The Red Sox have now won 10 consecutive playoff games against the Angels and, at what point do the Cherubim get pissed off and finally say, “enough is enough.” They did it in the regular season, but that means nothing now. They must win tomorrow night and they must beat Beckett in Boston on Saturday. Guerrero is going to have to make a name for himself in the post season for the Angels to prevail. God, I hate Boston. I sure would love if the Angels can get off the floor and impose an embargo on Red Sox Nation.

The Phils/Brewers series will even out today with C.C. Sabathia getting the start for Milwaukee and the Rays, in thier first post season game ever, will beat up on the Chisox. It’s gonna be hard to decide what to watch between the Dodgers/Cubs playoff game tonight or the Biden/Palin debate, but I could always see the latter on SNL this weekend. If she’s smart, she’ll just call the whole thing off.

GO DODGERS!!!