East coast bias; Enough already!

"Dodgers help the Cubs beat themselves." "A failure beyond compare." "Cubs doomed not by curses, but themselves." All headlines you can find on espn.com when reading a story involving the the Dodgers vs. Cubs playoff series, and all headlines that support the east coast bias.

Well I'm going to put a little bit of west coast bias into this series.

Despite the Dodgers putting a beating on the Cubs, the story lines consist of the Cubs beating themselves. As if the Dodgers had nothing to do with it.

The Dodgers had three consecutive stellar starting pitching performances from Derek Lowe, Chad Billingsley and Hiroki Kuroda, who had a combined 1.35 ERA.

The Cubs had their chance to smile for four full innings in game one before James Loney hit his grand slam, and crushed the city of Chicago's spirit. From that point on the series was dominated by the Dodgers.

The Cubs didn't collapse, they didn't beat themselves, they're not cursed, they were over-powered by a far better team.

The Cubs did commit costly errors, gave up costly walks, and didn't hit in key situations, but had the Dodgers not capitalized on the errors, and pitched out of the key situations, the game would have been much different.

The fact is that the Dodgers did capitalize on the mistakes, and got the outs when they needed them thus putting a choke-hold on the Cubs and forcing them to feel the pressure. There's nothing the Cubs could have done.

Errors didn't doom the Cubs, the Dodgers timely hitting and strong pitching doomed them.

The Dodgers won, yet the media chooses to ignore that, and make the Cubs loss the main focus.

The Dodgers WON!

Get over it east coast.

Pretty soon they're not going to be able to ignore the west, and they will be forced to acknowledge the Dodgers accomplishments as accomplishments, and not as back stories to an east coast loss.

Would it have been so hard to write those headlines as, "Dodgers help the Cubs go home," or "Dodgers crush the best in the National League," or "Cubs doomed not by curses, but the Dodgers?" It shouldn't have been that hard because that's what happened.

That's my take on the east coast bias.