The Dodgers will--barely--finish the season with the best record in the National League. Usually this means we would get to play the worst team that makes the playoffs, which is usually the wildcard, in this case the Rockies. But there is a rule that says that two teams from the same division cannot meet in the first round of the playoffs. And so instead of the Rockies, we will be facing the St. Louis Cardinals.
And this is bad, because the Cardinals have our number. They have excellent starting pitching and Albert Pujols. They're going to be very, very tough to beat in the post season.
Another bad thing--and this is just a general complaint--about the MLB playoffs is that the first round is over so quickly. It's a five game series. And baseball is a very stochastic game, much more so than, say, basketball or football. So a quick first round exit can really make you feel like you were the victim of bad luck more than anything to do with actual baseball skill.
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