What is wrong with these people? Is there something weird in the water down there? I used to think very highly of the city of San Diego, but their fans' reaction to this series has been Halos Heaven-esque.

When the Mariners have a bad series, we criticize our own team for being so bad that they lost.

When a SoCal baseball fan's team loses a series, he criticizes the opposing team for being so bad that they won. When you go south of the Bay, do you enter some kind of Bizarro World where this makes sense?

P.S.: Still don't think the NL lacks talent? Texas wins a series against the team that leads the NL Central and Kansas City wins a series against a team with a winning record against NL opponents.