The Enemy of My Enemy is...

This weekend was tough with the Diamondbacks playing the Dodgers, and the Padres sandwiched in between in the standings. Do you root for the Dodgers to win, hoping the Padres will take the division? Do you root for the Diamondbacks to win, because you'd rather they win the division over the Padres than see the Dodgers go to the playoffs? Or do you just hope they split the games?

Clearly, the latter two options are the only acceptable ones (rooting for the Dodgers under any circumstances being unthinkable), and frankly, I'm torn. If Dodgers/Dbacks split games and the Padres just win, you get a little of the best of both worlds, but if Arizona wins, then at least the Padres are that much closer to the playoffs with the Dodgers knocked back in the standings (the Rockies are almost certainly out of it, and the Phillies are just teasing). And, given the recent success of wild card teams, just getting back to the playoffs seems like a good deal.

In any case, the Padres still just need to go out and win games. Go Jack Cassel!

Lastly, here are the cumulative games over .500 by division after games of 9/16; there's not going to be much change from here on out:

            ALE  ALC  ALW  NLE  NLC  NLW
2007-09-16     6   -5   21   -4  -47   29