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Bill Shaikin: Can Giants make this rivalry with Dodgers an October staple?

The Dodgers. The Giants. The playoffs.

Let's do this again soon.

We waited a century for the first postseason clash between the Dodgers and Giants — all the anticipation, all the loyalty, all the hostility.

The Giants dominated the first half of the last decade, with three World Series championships in five seasons. The Dodgers dominated thereafter, with three World Series appearances in four seasons, capped by a title of their own.

If this out-of-nowhere Giants team is more than a one-year wonder — and it just might be — we could be heading into the most glorious era of baseball's best rivalry since 1951 to 1956, when either the

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