Ten years ago today, 35,000 of you attended my wedding.  Some of you probably remember that day too.  September 25, 2001.  The Arizona Diamondbacks played their first home game after September 11th, against the Milwaukee Brewers.  I married my beautiful Andrea against a very emotional background.  A firefighters convention was in town, and they were all on the field after the wedding and the before the game to help sing the national anthem.  The Dbacks were 84-67 after losing that game 9-4.  As we all know they finished 92-70 that season, two games ahead of the San Francisco Giants.

So many correlations from this season to that great World Series Championship season of 2001.  The Dbacks fought the Giants for the division then, as they did this season.  The Brewers this weekend are fighting the Dbacks again too – for better overall record and home field advantage in the NLDS.  For everything said and done, this team will finish the same as or probably better than the 2001 Dbacks did in the regular season.  Let’s hope the postseason can repeat itself too. (more…)