Well, I am shocked. I have to admit it. After the start the Arizona Diamondbacks got off to I, like many other baseball fans, was enamored with the the D-Backs. I was proclaiming them the easy winner in the NL West and I was beginning to pencil them in to be the National league rep in the World Series.

I mean the D-Backs were on pace to win the division by like 30 games. They were also on pace to win something like 120 games. And they stumbled. And kept stumbling. And then stumbled some more. Not they’ve fallen and they can’t get up.

And you know what? Suddenly the Los Angeles Dodgers - yes the Dodgers who are coached by Joe Torres - have caught the D-Backs and are tied with them in first place. The Dodgers still aren’t at .500 (they’re one game under .500) but they are in first place.

Not that I want to go back out on a limb but I would now have to favor the Dodgers since they have Joe Torre as their Manager. I certainly wouldn’t want to bet against Torre and I certainly wouldn’t want to bet on the D-Backs anymore either.

But the bottomline with this divison right now is that no one is really winning the division and no team deserves to win the division at this point. I mean, every team in that division is playing sub-.500. It’s crazy. So rather than predicting which team will be the one to win the NL West, the better bet would be which team is going to lose it the least.