It's the most hotly debated topic this side of health care reform: Will the Dodgers blow it? If they let this one get away, it will be the worst collapse since Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World" in 1951, when Brooklyn's 13-game lead disappeared.All this talk of "collapse" is really misguided and misinformed. The 2009 Dodgers, with a record of 27-26 since the All Star Break, aren't exactly cracking at their foundations, any more than simply being c-blocked by a 63-32 run at the hands of the Colorado Rockies. Admittedly, .500 ball isn't good enough to get it done, but it's certainly not the "monumental collapse" that the media is making it out be.
And as for the "worst collapse" of the aforementioned 1951 Dodger team? Well they went 34-28 during the last two months of season, and fell victim not to their own failure, but to the 42-15 streak the San Francisco Giants posted during the same stretch.
Instead of easily focusing on the negative, sometimes you have to give credit where it's due. Even if it's to the team on the other side of the tracks.
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They do realize all you have to do is make the playoffs, right?
What am I saying, of course they don't.
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