I’m sure you noticed that the first letters of today’s headlines spell out Go Giants! Like every baseball fan in the state of California, my mind is elsewhere today as I am in full stressmode for tonight’s de facto World Series championship between the Dodgers and the Giants. The two bitterest baseball rivals who happen to also be the two winningest teams ever to face each other in the playoffs will meet in their biggest game ever on Thursday night. FiveThirtyEight: “Giants-versus-Dodgers is one of the sport’s oldest and greatest rivalries, with 2,539 matchups spanning over 130 years of history. And this season’s battle felt especially personal. Even if it took them 168 games to do it, a Dodger victory would be the culmination of Los Angeles’s seasonlong bid to hunt down its bitter rival to the north, restoring the pecking order we all assumed would exist between the teams before the season started. For San Francisco, a victory would be one final confirmation of exactly who owned the rivalry, the division and maybe the entire league this season — expert picks and 106 Dodger wins be damned.” Game 5’s Winner Will Be In The World Series Driver’s Seat. (That’s a minor detail compared to how badly we want to beat each other.)

+ Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said. “If you have a pulse or you’re a sports fan, you better be watching Dodgers-Giants.” I actually agree with Dave Roberts. That’s how out of sorts this pressure has me…