[MickeyD]

What a series. Friday and Sunday were great games (though I would have preferred a different outcome on Friday, of course.) Saturday wasn't exactly a "great" game, but the Padres kicked butt, so I'll take it. And holy crap what a game last night!!! I was watching it until about the eighth inning when the Padres were up 7-5. I turned it off and headed to the gym, figuring a) it would be on at the gym and b) two runs, Trevor would come in, Hells Bells, game over. It wasn't on at the gym. Grrr. I had no idea that the Pads had scored 2 more runs after I got to the gym or anything. Finally at about 10:50 one of the local news channels that was on ran the story about the 4 homers & mentioned that the game was tied. I think I lasted about 15 more seconds before I e-stopped the treadmill and went to my car to listen to the game.......Then, I arrived home right when Garciaparra was at bat & by the time I got inside and turned the TV on the Dodgers were celebrating at home plate.

What a freakin' roller coaster ride! I keep telling all my friends that this closeness & back & forth between the Dodgers & the Padres remindes me a lot of the end of the season in 1996, when I first became a Padres fan. It's just too bad that they aren't playing each other for the last series of the season like they did then....