But still, almost every time I see a Dodger highlight on ESPN, somehow, inevitably, someone will bring up the "fact" that "the Dodgers are so lucky to be playing in the worst division in baseball." Oops!
The team with the best record in the National League (the Dodgers) is in the NL West. The team with the second-best record in the National League (the Giants) is in the NL West. Colorado is right in the wild-card hunt as well. Explain to me how the NL West is any worse, than, say, the AL Central? Or the NL East? Hell, the AL East is the only division that's clearly and definitively better than the NL West. So why all the NL West hate?
The only possible explanation is that every baseball expert around the country still thinks it's 2008. If that's the case, I'd like to bet them all five thousand dollars that the Arizona Cardinals will make the Super Bowl, fifty thousand dollars that Villanova will make the Final Four, and five hundred billion dollars that Manny Ramirez will get suspended for using steroids the day after his team sets a record by opening the 2009 season 13-0 at home. (Two days until he returns, in case you haven't caught one minute of ESPN in the last 96 hours.)
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