I feel a little bit sorry for Joe Torre. Not that the guy needs any tears shed for him but he just doesn’t have a very good team. They’re showing themselves to be incapable of hitting the Phillies pitchers and their hurlers are clearly inferior to the Philadelphia offense. Torre has to manage in front of 45,000 gang members and a handful of Hollywood window dressing. And now this.

Manny Ramirez may have just given the best quote in baseball history. When asked if he saw Jimmy Rollins’ game-winning hit off teammate Jonathan Broxton, Ramirez said “No, I was in the shower.” Seriously, folks. Manny Ramirez had left the game and was bathing while the rest of his team was sweating-out the 9th inning. How is Joe Torre supposed to win a NLCS when his best player is in that tub with rubber ducky?

This is genuinely amazing for so many reasons but none so large as the light that it sheds on T.J. Simers and his fraudulent excuse for a playoff baseball team. The Dodgers have failed to show up twice in four games played. That’s not baseball, it’s a joke. I’ll go as far as to offer the L.A. people the following: their division colleagues, the Rockies, showed so much more fight and deserve so much more credit than the Dodgers have earned this postseason. At least Todd Helton wasn’t in the shower when it was all on the line.