October 5, 2008 14 Comments

It Felt Like Destiny Stomped The Cubs!

I don’t remember the 1955 Championship and barely remember the 1959 Championship (I was only 6 years old), but I recall every one since then,  I remember 1963, 1965, 1981 and 1988, but for me this year feels even more special, maybe because it’s been twenty years since the last one.   Up until 1988, we would win every 2 or 3 or 6 or 7 years - this time, it’s been 20 years!  Count ‘em!  20 Years!  We aren’t there yet, but we are rolling in that direction.   We have gone from afterthought to front-runner.  “Our kids are no longer kids, they are men.”  No less an expert than Greg Maddux said that.

This 2008 Playoff version of the Dodgers is not the 2008 Regular Season of the Dodgers.  We started the season with Rafael Furcal, Jeff Kent, Nomar Garciparra, Jason Schmidt, Juan Pierre, Brad Penny and Andrew Jones as our backbone.  One-by-one they went down or never started (in Schmidt’s case), or lost their job to a “kid.”  By season’s end, only Raffy was still a major factor in this teams success.  Pick any other team who loses 7 key vets for a substantial portion of the season or all season and I’ll show you a loser, and the Dodgers did struggle, mightily at times.  At the end of August our pitching seemed to be in a shambles, clutch-hitting was non-existent and the 8 game losing streak just reinforced how bad we were.

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