People tend to lie to themselves. They tend to tell themselves that things are better than they really are, that those things they fear aren't really there, that everything is gonna be okay.

   Most of the time, it isn't true.

   And for the Dodgers, it's time to wake up. Guys, you don't have enough pitching!

   It's a truism in baseball that you can never have enough pitching. But the Dodgers have only two pitchers who are really capable of starting games and pitching enough innings to be meaningful: Chad Billingsley and Randy Wolf. Kuroda is still on the DL (ribcage strain), and Kershaw, Stults and McDonald are, at best, erratic. Kershaw struggled – no, let's say disappointed – in his last two starts. The boy is only 21, I know, but he's pitched a lot of ball games in his 21 years. If he doesn't know he has to throw strikes, and good ones that don't get hit out of the park, then he doesn't belong in the starting rotation of a major league team.

   The Dodgers lead the National League West right now. But if the pitchers don't step up and do the job, they won't lead it for long. And if the current roster of pitchers can't do the job, well...

   Don't lie to yourselves, Dodgers. And don't lie to us fans. You have a problem. Fix it!