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Post-season Gameday Thread, #11: #DodgerFree

We can all sit back and enjoy the NL Championship Series

By Jim McLennan
League Championship Series - Washington Nationals v St Louis Cardinals - Game One Photo by Scott Kane/Getty Images

5:08 pm - Nationals @ Cardinals (0-0)

Today's Lineups

NATIONALS CARDINALS
Trea Turner - SS Dexter Fowler - CF
Adam Eaton - RF Kolten Wong - 2B
Anthony Rendon - 3B Paul Goldschmidt - 1B
Juan Soto - LF Marcell Ozuna - LF
Howie Kendrick - 2B Yadier Molina - C
Ryan Zimmerman - 1B Matt Carpenter - 3B
Michael Taylor - CF Tommy Edman - RF
Yan Gomes - C Paul DeJong - SS
Anibal Sanchez - RHP Miles Mikolas - RHP

While I’m delighted that it has been 2 days since the last Dodgers’s playoff game - I’m thinking of getting a sign made - it does rip the heart out of my interest in the National League Championship series. The Cardinals have Goldschmidt, a man who deserves playoff success perhaps more than anyone else in the game not called Mike Trout. But the Nationals have half of a roster of former Diamondbacks, and are also considerably less hateable, since Bryce and his hair will be joining the rest of us and watching this on TV. It’s almost the very opposite of Alien vs. Predator. Now that the Dodgers have been eliminated, whoever wins... we win. So, go <team>! Beat <other team>!

Poll

Who do you WANT to win the NLCS

This poll is closed

  • 19%
    Cardinals
    (8 votes)
  • 35%
    Nationals
    (15 votes)
  • 45%
    It’s not the Dodgers, so who cares?
    (19 votes)
42 votes total Vote Now

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