The Major League Baseball playoffs begin tonight, and unless there is a football game tomorrow it will be the most important thing in sports all day. To kick off The Dugout's analytical coverage, I've decided to write about the only series that doesn't start tonight, the San Francisco Giants vs. the Atlanta Braves. Also, no one from either team is featured.

I didn't get included in the staff playoff predictions, but if you want my opinion, I think it's going to be the Rangers and the Reds in the Series. Yes, I did just fall and hit my head on the coffee table, why do you ask?

Today's Dugout follows.

The Dugout

	Online Host Welcome to the San Francisco Giants Chatroom!
	GreatMuppetKuiper: THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNET
	GreatMuppetKuiper: THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNET
	GreatMuppetKuiper: THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNET
	KrukowPoland: are you saying "pennet"
	GreatMuppetKuiper: sure thing, Kruk, "THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNET" is a famous call from some announcer about Bob Thompson's legendary "shot you could hear anywhere."
	GreatMuppetKuiper: the Giants won the pennet and went on to win the World Series
	KrukowPoland: I think you're trying to say "pennant," meat
	GreatMuppetKuiper: Pennant? You mean like what you have to be to pass into the canyon of the crescent moon?
	KrukowPoland: that was penitent, I'm saying "pennant"
	GreatMuppetKuiper: like the like the little flag with the team's name on it?
	KrukowPoland: that's what it says here on the telestrator. Teleprompter.
	GreatMuppetKuiper: that's all the Giants won? well then why the hell am I flipping out
	Online Host Meanwhile, in the San Diego Padres Chatroom...
	TheBaxter: No, seriously, we aren't out of it yet! We can still do this!
	TheBaxter: I read it on ESPN, Ketih Law says that if the Braves lose three of the next five it will knock them out of playoff contention, which means we are RIGHT THERE
	VenableTraditions: keith law
	LastOfTheMujica: THERE IS NO LAW BUT KEITH'S LAW
	TheBaxter: I guess statistically it doesn't make sense, but baseball is a game of heart, and statistics these days, am I right
	VenableTraditions: I'm tired of this, can't we just go home and spend time with our families?
	TheBaxter: with our families
	LastOfTheMujica: Get this guy out of here! He have no heart!
	TheBaxter: secondary idea: we interfere in game 1 of the NLDS and cost the Giants the game
	TheBaxter: that way they'll have to play US to settle the score, or we'll get added to game 2 in a three way dance
	TheBaxter: I've been watching a lot of pro wrestling lately, and I've come to understand that this is how life works
	TheBaxter: also I am totally giving Buster Posey a 619
	GarlandVocalBand: I, Garland, will knock them out of the playoffs!
	VenableTraditions: why don't we work hard to improve our record of 80-0 in meaningless games and 0-82 in games that matter
	TheBaxter: why don't we throw Tim Lincecum into the UNFORGIVING STEEL STEPS
	LastOfTheMujica: YEAHHH
	Online Host Back in the San Francisco Giants Chatroom...
	KrukowPoland: kipe, do you think we're better than Vin Scully?
	GreatMuppetKuiper: you mean Vince Scully from the Dodgers? of course, we both are, why would you even ask that
	KrukowPoland: i dunno, i just feel like maybe we luck-grandfathered into these jobs and don't really have anything to say about baseball
	GreatMuppetKuiper: c'mon crook, you know that isn't true... remember that thing you said about wanting to get that Giants scarf?
	KrukowPoland: lol ya I guess so, I guess I'm just grabbing some sort of mental pine
	GreatMuppetKuiper: omg look a bald guy
	KrukowPoland: lol where
	GreatMuppetKuiper: right there, without the hair
	KrukowPoland: hahaha oh man how bald is that guy, he doesn't even have any hair at all
	GreatMuppetKuiper: i know, i was just noticing how bald he is too
	KrukowPoland: ha ha ha ha laughter
	GreatMuppetKuiper: so who are we picking in this series
	KrukowPoland: all statistics lead me to believe it will be the giants in three
	GreatMuppetKuiper: I also have the Giants in three, possibly two. Giant baseball: torture!
	KrukowPoland: lol yeah how are you even supposed to hit a giant baseball