First off, damn the UCLA Engineering department for making me take a safety class at same time Game 1 of the NLDS is on today. Second, damn douchebag safety workers who pick on people dozing off or not paying attention in safety classes. Don't they know that nobody actually wants to be there? How can you honestly expect anyone to be enthusiastic about attending a mandatory safety class? The whole thing is just very upsetting. But on to the game.

Let's start right off at the most idiotic and embarrassing play of the day. In the second inning with J. D. Drew on first and Jeff Kent on second, Russell Martin hits one off the wall in right. Somehow Kent's old slow ass isn't at third base yet when the relay is made, and he's easily thrown out at home. But more appalling was that J. D. Drew came in right behind him and was tagged out just as easily sliding in on the other side of the plate. I don't think this has ever happened in real life before. The only time I can ever remember a play like this is in Major League when Willie Mays Hays and some other Indian both slide one after the other to avoid the tag; except both of them were safe. The dumbness was rubbed in when Marlon Anderson then hit an RBI double, which would have scored both Kent and Drew had they not been tagged out. This atrocity ended up to be huge as later, with the score tied, Brad Penny sucked again and coughed up the game. The Dodgers lost by one run, 6-5.

Why was Drew right on Kent's back? Why didn't he pick up his damn head and look at third base coach Rich Donnelly? Why didn't Donnelly yell his lungs out to tell Drew to stop? How can something this stupid happen in the playoffs? These were all the questions swirling through my mind as I watched the replay in dead speechless silence. Just unbelievable. It makes you wonder how the Dodgers ever got to the playoffs in the first place.

Kent said after the game: "It's easy to sit in a booth and it's easy to color this at the end of the day by saying, 'If this would have scored and that would have scored ... it would have added up and they would have won.' You can't do that in this game." Well Jeff, the last time I checked, 5 + 2 = 7, which would have given us the 7-6 victory. OK, maybe the game wouldn't have played out exactly like it did after had they both scored, but it couldn't have been any worse.

So now, down 0-1, we look to steal tomorrow's game and go back home with the series tied. We're confident at home. The only team that won more home games this season in the NL was ... the Mets. Damn. Come one Hong-Chih Kuo! Make the family proud!

Sidenote: Fuck you, Joe Morgan! How dare you insult the Dodgers and Mets by leaving the game in the middle to go do the Yankee's game. Why didn't you just not show up at all and leave the color commenting to Steve Phillips? If you're gonna be there, stay the whole game and don't go trotting off just cuz it's the Yankees. Screw the Yankees.