This is the way it has to be, but you already knew that. Maybe you didn’t want to admit it, but deep down you knew.
You had optimistic visions about a path to the World Series that might avoid Los Angeles. Ideas in your mind about the Brewers catching lightning in a bottle for a best-of-three turned into dreams of the Padres riding an emotional wave into the NLCS before that finally turned into “oh no, it’s them.”
Yeah, it’s them.
Again.
The team where arguably the greatest pitcher of this generation isn’t even the staff ace, and where the 2019 NL MVP is batting sixth most nights.