Last night I was out driving
Coming home at the end of the working day
I was riding alone through the drizzling rain
On a deserted stretch of a county two-lane
When I came upon a wreck on the highway

As we wait for the last hubcap from this crash to spin silent, we may witness more historic catastrophe tonight.

No Los Angeles Dodger team has ever lost 14 out of 16 games, but on national cable television this evening in St. Louis, the 2003 edition can become the first.

Brooklyn had done that badly and worse, including a 16-game losing streak shortly after D-Day. But Los Angeles, though it has lost 13 out of 16 many times, has never gone 2-14.

In the midseason collapse that essentially cost the Dodgers a playoff berth in 2002, the Dodgers lost 12 out of 15 in July before rallying to finish 3 1/2 games out of the wild card. The Dodgers today sit the same 3 1/2 games out of the wild card, meaning any kind of rally at all will necessarily get them closer, but it takes a brave mind to look at this accident scene and conclude that their season hasn't been totaled.

And as such, I greet the new day.

Sometimes I sit up in the darkness
And I watch my baby as she sleeps
Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight
I just lay there awake in the middle of the night
Thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway

(Data by Baseball-Reference.com, lyrics by Bruce Springsteen, performed by Bruce Springsteen and Nancy Bea. Next up ... Badlands.)