NL West Champions for 2005

In honor of MY padres winning the 2005 NL West crown, an exceprt from Tim Keown (my new favorite ESPN writer):

"Sure, if you're rich enough that you would actually be affected by a repeal of the estate tax, you can go ahead and focus on the Yankees and Red Sox. But the rest of us will concentrate on teams that don't have everything handed to them, teams that know what it's like to have a worm infect a computer system just before deadline, teams that occasionally oversleep, miss the bus and show up late for a mandatory meeting but still hang in there and overcome it all.

Teams like the Padres and their blessed 79-79 record.

The NL West is the division and San Diego is the team for the common fan. After all, when you get right down to it, we're all struggling to reach .500. In the face of staggering mortgages, mounting credit card debt, rising health care costs and increasing benefit cutbacks, we're all happy if we can just avoid a losing record."

HOW BOUT THEM PADRES!?!?!