.500! But not fixed yet.

I must say, I'm proud of Ned. Ned works hard, he is squeezed by his bosses, he's had his heart broken time and again by free agents who turn out to be injured and he's still in there making deals. As a result the Dodgers made it back to .500.

The Diamondbacks meanwhile are starting to get more quality starts out of Randy Johnson. Match that with Dan Haren and Brandon Webb, and it doesn't really matter how many strikeouts their offense succumbs to, they're going to be hard to catch.

The Rockies, however, don't seem to mind, having outscored the Reds 23-3 in a sweep, rolling to 9-1 since the break.

So here we are, with all 3 NL West teams (sorry Padres and Giants, you just don't count this year anymore) on 3 game winning streaks. That's good, the division deserves more respectability than it has shown this year. But I'm worried. The Dodgers scored 11 runs in their 3 game sweep of the Nationals. True, we ran into a good pitcher the first day, even so, we left no reasonable room for error on our pitching staff, and that's what worries me. What happens when we play a team with pitching? But, what do you do? Sign Barry Bonds? Trade for Manny Ramirez? By the way I met Manny Ramirez once, but I'll save that story for a bit later. No, we're all in this together, and while the odds don't look good, well, they didn't look good in '88 either. Or '89, or '90...interpret that however you want. I really hope we beat the Giants this week.