Dodgers/Giants Series Preview  I often think about what it would
have been like to get home from work on October 2, 2004, and
have the Giants/ Dodgers game waiting for me on DVR. I didn't
have a DVR back then, and I also worked with a Giants fan who
wouldn't have been able to shut up about the score, so it wasn't
a possibility. But for some reason, I have this image of me
watching the Steve Finley game alone, at night, well after it
happened. It haunts me.  Instead, I heard about it secondhand a
couple of minutes after it happened. That took some of the sting
away. I read the play-by-play account shortly after, and I had
to imagine the pain of the Cody Ransom error. The frustration at
Dustin Hermanson walking Robin Ventura to bring the tying run to
the plate. The sense of dread when Wayne Franklin came into the
game. I didn't go through it at the time. That's probably why
I've forced myself to invent this weird scenario with me
watching the game unfold like I was opening a neatly wrapped
package filled with l