No gloating here, K-Lo. The Dodgers make me nervous. I gloated in 1988 — up 2-1 in games over the Dodgers in the NL Championship series, and about to go up 3-1, with the Mets ahead and Dwight Gooden pitching lights out. I had us winning the World Series … except the Mets forgot to finish Game 4 against the Dodgers. Mike Scioscia (a terrific catcher and now the manager of the California Angels) hammered a home-run off Gooden (the dagger that killed the Mets for a decade). The Dodgers won Game 4, tied the series and went on to drub the Mets in Game 7.

To me, the Dodgers are like the Braves … and the Yankees. They are not dead unless and until you kill them.