Tuesday night in San Francisco the Dodgers won the NL West. Nothing more. Nothing less. Yet the postgame celebration looked like they just won the World Series.
If the Dodgers' only goal is to make the playoffs then I sincerely apologize for mocking this excessive celebration. I would also ask the team to let us know this so we know to lower expectations and be OK with another postseason being shorter than it should be.
But with a payroll higher than the GNP of most Third World countries, the Dodgers' goal had better be more than a handful of games in October — especially with two of the best pitchers in the game and a manager very likely to be unemployed for anything less than making the NLCS at the very least and probably the World Series.