"What the Dodgers did tonight was tits."

--Anonymous Giants fan (I'm not making this up)


"This is the greatest comeback in baseball I've ever seen."

--Dodgers post-game report commentator



Many of you, I'm sure, missed the greatest baseball game ever played last night.

That's all right - that's not your fault. How were you to know you needed to order some fancy MLB satellite package? Seriously, don't beat yourselves up over it. It happens.

You missed a feat, however, that hasn't happened in baseball since 1964 - or more than 200,000 baseball games. And a hobbled No-mah slamming the game-winner into the Left Field Pavillion at Chavez Ravine? To bounce the Boys in Blue a half a game into first? Classic. All you needed was for the ball to shatter the lights and have the ball club dance in a shower of sparks.

But I digress. My point is, as of late new allegations have cropped up about me being some type of "sports jinx." It wouldn't be the first time - it is, after all, election season.

I gotta admit, it makes watching ND thrashings fun - not because I am a sports jinx, but because there are people out there hemhorraging in front of their HD flat-screen TVs, pulling out their hair because they know I'm watching and they think I'm a jinx. And you gotta love that.

But the fun's over folks: I suffered through last night's game from about the second inning on. I was in front of the set when Grady Little moronically put Broxton back in for the second night in a row - a pitcher shakier than Nick Cage by the third act of Leaving Las Vegas. Sure enough, with the score tied in the eighth Broxton promptly gave up two runs, with about 12 wild pitches miraculously reeled-in by catcher Russell Martin.

A fine strategy, Grady - reminiscent of Pedro in the eighth.

I watched in horror as our main closer, Takashi Saito, gave up three more runs in the ninth, putting the Padres up four, the Dodgers down to their last three outs.

And yes - I witnessed the bottom of the ninth - the four back-to-back-to-back-to-mother-fucking back home runs! Two of 'em of Trevor mother-effing Hoffman?? Am I actually typing this? Can't I just cut straight to the telling-your-grandchildren part?

And I blacked out after Nomar's two run homer to win it, only after Sele gave up another deflating run in the 10th. I swear, our pitching is about as controlled as Officer Jimmy McNulty behind the wheel after a few drinks.

Anyways - I witnessed it all. So that blows your little "sports jinx" theory out of the water. Thanks for playing.