A Beginner's Guide to the Arizona Diamondbacks

It's fair to say that the Diamondbacks are not currently the hottest ticket in town: that honor goes to their next-door neighbors, the Suns, who are stampeding towards the playoffs, with perhaps the best chance of post-season success in franchise history [well, so I'm told by those who know more about basketball than I. Which, admittedly, is everybody including Janet Napolitano's cat.] But there is definitely a 'Backs buzz building: a number of unbiased sources have picked Arizona as National League dark-horses, with comparisons being made to the Tigers from last year.....