Good for them.

Hell of a start to Gibby's career as a manager.

Congrats to the Diamondbacks

Yeah, congrats to the Snakes. I will now be rooting for them in the post-season.

NL west weak this year but still an incredible accomplishment.

Very cool that goldschmidt had the game winning triple

Now gotta go into philly and steal one.

(Assuming they don't catch brewers)

In the champagne scrum, I'm liking the sweet ski goggles worn by Upton. He's still wearing them.

The shot of twenty guys have the sudden realization that there's a pool and the ensuing mad dash to hop the fence in right center field is one of my new favorite Diamondbacks memories.

Off the top of my head, the favorite memory order goes:
1. Anything from 2001
2. The Perfect Game
3. The Ted Lilly glove slam
4. The Pool Party
5. That time I went was at the BOB and Mike Myers blew a lead. When the jumbo tron panned to the bullpen to show the next reliever entering the game and the top of the screen featured the Michael Myers mask-wearing fan (whatever happened to that guy?) giving the international 'choke' gesture.

Video of the pool party and pictures.

Never liked the Dbacks (item 3 in post 6 helps that dislike) but I'm amazed at the turnaround they've made in a year. Interesting how it looked like that young team that made the run in 2007 wasn't really going to pan out when they were expected to contend and then they take the division when everyone is overlooking them in favor of the Giants and Rockies.

Josh Byrnes should be proud, it was 90% his team that won it.

Michael Myers mask-wearing fan (whatever happened to that guy?)

He passed away

Josh Byrnes should be proud, it was 90% his team that won it

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Sheehan probably had a more balanced take, crediting each of the last 4 GM's. Whether it was drafts under Joe Jr that brought in Drew, Upton, Montero,....Trades,drafts, and signings under Byrnes that brought in Kennedy, Young, Collmenter and Roberts, Dipoto bringing in Hudson and Saunders, (and some good minor league talent), or Towers bringing in Putz, Hernandez, Patterson, and Ziegler.....

No one GM can lay claim to "90%" of this roster.

Link to Sheehan's article

Was at the clincher tonight. Lots of fun. It's startling the kind of lineup the Giants ran out there against Saunders. It was Beltran, Pill and Belt and then a whole lot of scary. Sandoval and Huff wound up pinch hitting late.

I also think that the D'Backs put out what should be their regular lineup for the playoffs. It's not a particularly good one for a playoff team, but it's good enough to pull a surprise if they overachieve a bit.

Wish I could have been there.

Video of team jumping into the pool

I like how in one of those shots there was a group of three guys hugging and jumping up and down. Two were Overbay and Hill. I'd like to think the third was John McDonald, but I couldn't quite make it out.

The Diamondbacks have an interesting roster. While others in the division had their stars and struggled to put something around them the D'backs had A guy and filled in around Upton pretty well.

While others in the division had their stars and struggled to put something around them the D'backs had A guy and filled in around Upton pretty well.

Precisely. That's a testament to the GM(s). Assembling the right supporting cast is just as important as finding the star.

Next year, Dave Cameron will declare the D'Backs to be a juggernaught that cannot be stopped, and the Padres will win the division by 15 games.

90% was hyperbole.

Towers deserves credit for doing a great job on the bullpen, despite his awful position player choices, which as always are partly forced on him by tightwad ownership.He also deserves credit for failing in his attempts to trade Upton.

Joe Jr. does not deserve credit for building teams bad enough to get consensus picks Drew and Upton. Colangelo deserves credit for paying up for drew, same for Kendrick and Upton. Give Joe Parra and Montero.

Dipoto deserves credit for the brilliant Hudson trade forced on him by ownership.

But the linchpin was the two for one Scherzer trade that brought Kennedy and made the Hudson trade possible. Goldschmidt, Roberts, Johnson, Chris Young, Collmenter, etc, Byrnes did far more to make this team than Towers.

This is definitely going to hurt Colorado's chances of locking up the west...

I'm happy to see Aaron Hill and John McDonald get a chance in the post-season.