A Sea World Series, and floundering Dodgers
Published 5/14/2008 at L.A. Times - Baseball News
As the Marlins and Devil Rays pose the possibility of an all-Florida matchup in October, Los Angeles is poised for mediocrity, or worse, at .500
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A quarter of the way into the baseball season, with the Florida Marlins and Tampa Bay Devil Rays jockeying for an all-Florida World Series, could you call such a matchup the Sunshine Series even though one of the teams plays indoors?
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