This win is simply par for the course
Big, big series, and they certainly don't have those around here very often.
Casey Blake sits in front of his Dodgers locker reading a Waterfowl 2008 catalog, shopping for gloves and parkas just in case this big, big series goes badly and he's back in Iowa before he knows it.
Greg Maddux is swinging a bat, so nervous that it appears for a moment he has forgotten he's a pitcher, someone asking if he's about done as a baseball player.
"I was done like six years ago," he says, apparently hanging on as long as he could to once again see a big, big series played in Dodger Stadium.
Manny Ramirez says he feels the pressure. "I don't know if I'm going to be here next year," he says, and if the Dodgers win this big, big series the Parking Lot Attendant will just have to bring Ramirez back next season, won't he?
Dodgers GM Ned Colletti enters the clubhouse, and so he's already put in more time here than Jason Schmidt.
Ramirez steps behind Colletti, but instead of holding up two fingers behind Colletti's head as some people might expect, he gestures to the media to ask Colletti about his future.
"I can't answer that," says the Schmoozer, who spots ESPN's Rick Reilly, everyone knowing by now Reilly is a member at Bel-Air because Reilly has been telling everyone, and Colletti might be looking for a free round of golf in a few weeks.
The Schmoozer starts working Reilly, and when Page 2 asks Colletti to give a sign when he's ready to talk baseball, he says, "You want sign language. I can give you sign language."
I just know he's dying to let me know the Dodgers are No. 1.
Joe Torre meets with the media, and when's the last time he faced such a big, big series this late into September to go one game above .500?
"I'm excited," he says, just as Ramirez walks by.
"Manny can't handle this pressure," Page 2 suggests.
"He's going into [the clubhouse] now to get nervous," Torre explains.
It has been a long, long time and Vin Scully is so nervous he comes to the ballpark wearing an old sports jacket. "You see," he says, while trying to button it across his middle.
"Didn't see you out at Bel-Air today," Reilly tells Scully, and maybe you didn't hear: Reilly is a member at Bel-Air.
