It was really more than good for Dodger and Angel fans. It was amazing. Not only did both teams clinch division titles together in the same year for the first time, but in the process they closed the curtain on the season for their dreaded Northern California rivals, the Giants and the Athletics.

It was particularly sweet for me, a lifelong Dodger fanatic. I don't bleed Dodger Blue, it's ingrained in my DNA. My dad grew up in Brooklyn. Like so many others, he moved west following his team. I grew up in Los Angeles. I haven't lived there in many years, but I will be a Dodger fan to the end of my days (or at least while Vin Scully walks the earth).

It's been a long time for the Dodgers. The last time the Dodgers were in the World Series, 1988, I was a freshman in college. I had just moved to Northern California for the first time. The Dodgers were huge underdogs to the overpowering Oakland A's. All the people I watched the game with were supporting the A's. Kirk Gibson gimped off the bench and hit his game winning home run off Dennis Eckersley and the Dodgers went on the win the series. It was awesome. But it's been a long, dry spell since.

The Dodgers have not won a single playoff game since 1988. This year we've got a long road ahead, playing the best team in baseball, the St. Louis Cardinals, in the first round. With the best record in the NL, they should be playing the wild card team, but since that team, the Astros, is from their own division, the Dodgers have to play them instead. It's going to be tough. I don't give the Dodgers much of a chance, but I haven't given them much of a chance all season and look where they are.

Angels have had more recent success, winning it all 2002, a series I missed since I was in Samoa. I like the Angels. But since they are in Anaheim, I didn't get to many games at the Big A, but I did get to some great game. My dad took my brother and I to a game there on our birthday in 1985. It happened to be the game that Rod Carew swatted his 3000th hit. The last time I was there was way back in 1986 when the Angels clinched their last division title against Texas. It was probably the most exciting game I have ever been to. All the fans rushed the field after the game. I have a few vivid memories of the post game festivities. One is that my friend Mark Castleman was determined to lift a piece of the turf and take it home as a prize. He did and kept it in a zip lock bag until it crumbled in ash. The other (apropos of nothing) is that I found a watch on the field that was engraved on the back with "Sal is Bueno".

Good luck to both the Angels and the Dodgers.

My prediction: Twins beat Cards 4-3 in WS. (I'm secretly pulling for a Dodger-Red Sox series with the Sox winning).