Well, not exactly Hef and the girls. But Playboy magazine’s baseball preview issue, which hit newsstands today, has the Dodgers winning the 2007 World Series — and NO, I did NOT actually buy a copy, nor do I have a subscription. The only reason I know this is that someone at the magazine emailed me a press release alerting me to it. The entire baseball preview package was actually done by Tracy Ringolsby, the guy who covers the Rockies for the Rocky Mountain News and is a very close friend of mine. Tracy actually taught me how to cover baseball during my days at that paper back in the late ’90s. So while Playboy isn’t exactly synonymous with baseball expertise, it is worth mentioning that the guy they commissioned to do this package for them is one of the most respected baseball writers in the business, a guy who actually entered the writer’s wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame last summer. And while Playboy is the first publication I can think of that has the Dodgers actually WINNING the World Series, it’s at least the third (Sports Illustrated, Street and Smith’s) that I can think of that has them REACHING the World Series.