The Dodgers and the L.A. Times on the Same Page?

       "For most of the Dodgers, their 2-1 defeat to the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday was only one of 162 games they will play this season.  For Schebler, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience."


       Yeah, Schebler played his first major league game with the Dodgers and got a hit.  This was the main front page story in the sports section of the Times this morning . . . about that player.

       But what I mainly noticed was the first sentence of the paragraph!  That's exactly it.  For the Dodgers, the loss to the Cardinals was just one of 162 games.  You may or may not remember my blog entry of May 29th calling them the "L.A. Slackers."  Six games against St. Louis during the regular season, and they've already lost 4 out of 5 of them.

       The Cardinals are practicing up on how they're gonna murder the Dodgers again in the post-season (if the Dodgers make it that far), but for the "Slackers" it was just another game!!!!!  That's why I called them that before the first of their 6 meetings--and look at them now.  Neither the team nor the L.A. Times seems to think this day's game has any importance.