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MLB Weekend Watch: Picks, opinions on rivalries old and new

It's a weekend of rivalries old and new -- Cardinals vs. Cubs, Dodgers vs. Padres, Bryce Harper's old team vs. Bryce Harper's new team. Here's your guide to all the fun.

Cardinals-Cubs has long been considered one of baseball's best rivalries. (They play this weekend at Wrigley: Friday, 2:20 p.m. ET, ESPN+; Sunday, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN.) But what is the best rivalry in baseball in 2019?

Eddie Matz: If we're talking about the here and now, I'll take Phillies-Nationals. It doesn't have the history of some of the game's more deeply rooted rivalries (how could it, when one of the teams has been in its current home for only a little more than a decade).