Back to back to bizzak! Threepeat Babeeeeeyyy! Ok, well almost. The Dodgers won their ninth straight today, completing their sweep of the Florida Marlins. That's now three straight series sweeps of the Nats, Reds, and the Fish to push them one game over .500 and back into the thick of the wild-card and division race. With the next 10 games at home and Kent and Nomar close to returning, things are looking up for the Dodgers. Our offense seems to be coming around and the pitching has been dominant. Rafael Furcal is finally earning his absurd money and Wilson Betemit looks like a real quality pickup. If the pitching staff can hold up, we can actually make the playoffs! Who woulda thought I'd be saying that after the Dodgers pooped their way to a 1-13 post-break record? They are now the hottest team in baseball, and it's good to see them doing well. Even if it does mean hearing Charlie Steiner utter the phrase "Well, when you're hot, you're hot" 7 million times over the last two telecasts.

Now come the real important games: 4 with Colorado and 3 with SF before the Marlins come back for another ass-whoopin. We must pound the NL West competition and crush any hope those two teams have left of making the postseason. If the Padres didn't play the Nationals so damn much, maybe we'd be in 1st already. It's time for the Dodgers to keep it up now. We can't afford to start stumbling again. The playoffs are calling.

Sidenote: Call me stupid, but I'd never noticed how phallic Randy Johnson's nickname is until recently. The Big Unit? Is there a more inappropriate nickname in all of sports? If there is, please let me know. How did Randy pick up that nickname? Is it because his last name is Johnson? Does he really have a big unit? He must, he's something like 6' 10". And how have people not made fun of him for this relentlessly over his career? He definately deserves to be ridiculed for "The Big Unit," especially now that he's old and he sucks.