If you saw my game coverage in today’s paper, it centered mostly on the fact the Dodgers seem to have taken on a radically different personality over the past week or so, a fact that manager Joe Torre and a couple of the players backed up after Sunday’s game. Well, I ran across this quote while reading the San Francisco Chronicle on the flight home this morning. It came from Giants shortstop Emmanuel Burriss, and it seems to back up the notion that these Dodgers have a new feistiness about them:
“I don’t know if the Dodgers were playing harder (than other opponents) because of the rivalry or because we’re on their tail, but I definitely had that sense out there. There seems to be more intensity.”