a sux coronation....and I'm very glad!

Boston will win, or Boston will lose. Cleveland doesn't enter into it.

But I think he would be good for baseball, and for the Cubs. His antics might be over the top at times, but his Mavs have been mostly (re: last year's first round) successful on the court.

As for the playoffs, I think AN has kept me more interested than I normally would be. I'm not saying I wouldn't have watched but it's been kind of neat to read other's allegiances and opinions.

century version of...jeez, forgot his name...oh, Bill Veck?

While it may be a lot about him, he also is committed to winning.  The Mavs have been competitive almost eveyr year Mark has been there.

Aint gonna matter though, Bud and his cronies are not going to let him buy the team...Too much of a trouble maker for ownership and he would speak his mind on baseball WAY too much for their liking.  He would be right too.

It's beyond stating the obvious that he'd be a great addition, but $30 million a year? The A's? If that happens, I will race Stomper around the bases on Opening Day in a lime-green Speedo.

ew

1. TBS will complete its playoff coverage having televised just 17 games out of a possible 27 (and just one more than the minimum of 16).  Think of all the Frank TV promos we will be deprived of.

2. The Rockies will wait 9 days until Game 1 of the World Series, next Wednesday in either Cleveland or Boston.

3. The next game in Denver will be on October 27, a week from Saturday.  The Denver weather records show that the record low temperature for October 27 is 11 degrees, for October 28, 9 degrees and for October 29, minus 2 degrees.

I figure it will be somewhere around the 4th inning when I get home in a couple of hours.

Westbrook pulls a Houdini and gets out of a bases-loaded nobody out situation without giving up a run

(comment drips with sarcasm)

damn

has incredibly strong vocal cords.  If I screamed like that, I wouldn't be able to talk for the next 3 days.

but what the hell kind of name is "Trot" anyway?

is already doing better than either Sabathia or Carmona. He's not panicking, I guess. You do have to throw strikes to Manny and Ortiz in order to get then out.

When was the last time anybody saw that happen.

My son is rooting for the Red Sox.  I'm rooting for the Indians.  He also rooted for the Yankees.  I tried to explain you can't root for both the Red Sox AND Yankees until you're employed by ESPN.

topic of conversation.

day.  He's reconsidering his errant ways.

"Varitek's leadership invaluable to the Red Sox"

So far this series, Varitek sucks at the plate. This must be the default "catcher can't hit, so we need to justify his presence in the lineup" headline (see Kendall, Jason).

Now 4-0 Tribe

as GM of the Angels. Hopefully they become terrible now. This was just announced on the radio.

but, although Jon Miller called them Homer Hankies, I'm pretty sure the Minneapolis Star Tribune has the copyright on that.  Twenty years ago, I was waving one of them in the Metrodome every time they played the Homer Hanky Song  (to the tune of "Hanky Panky":  My baby waves a Homer Hanky, My baby waves a Homer Hanky, First deck, wave your Homer Hanky, Second deck, wave your Homer Hanky, Now everybody, wave your Homer Hanky, ooh...repeat ad nauseam.  It was a little annoying even for the fans.  But it worked, since the hankies and the ceiling of the Metrodome were the same color.).  

The tune's been in my head for days; I couldn't place it!

a marathon game like the other night. I don't think I can hang.

Want one?

Driving home, ESPN radio is giving us Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. Back in the 6th inning after the Youkilis single, David Ortiz had a 3-0 count. After Miller and Morgan praised him for his patience, Ortiz fouled off the 3-0 pitch down the left field line. Here comes Joe (as best as I can remember):
"Now, I don't like that. He can't hit a four-run homer here. After all, if he hits a home run here, the rally is over."
So, according to Joe Morgan, hitting a two-run home run when down 4-0 is a bad thing because it kills the rally.

Finish them off

Poor Boston.

and

they look like little kids. It's adorable.

not just "Boston loses"...but Cleveland BEATS Boston, to go up 2-1.

But tomorrow's another game.

If the Rox win, they get a nice nine-day layoff before the WS. Good thinking, Bud.

wow

but wouldn't mind it one bit if the Dbacks made it a little bit interesting.

Late game! I forgot.

struck out that time, but needs to get himself traded to an AL team where he could at least be a platoon DH on the days when he's not pitching.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...

This chick is angry (re: his recent column about the A's moving to Fremont).

George Brett!

the A's: the Rodney Dangerfield of baseball

I <3 him I'm so happy he's amazing as a pinch hitter. YAY ROCKIES!</p>

during Heroes commercials. I'm counting on you guys to let me know if anything really great happens.

who didn't see that coming

I actually like him. I wish he was a better baseball player.

it's about time Holliday did something like that this series!

3 run HR. 6-1 Rockies!

maybe god really does exist, and is making the rockies win instead of worrying about all that other more important crap going on elsewhere in the universe...

pulling a Grady Little. That honor just went to Bob Melvin.

this sign in Colorado makes me laugh...

http://images.sportsline.com/u/uspre...

I love how I could tell by the boos that Byrnes was up.

They think corking your bat is a really bad idea. The cork absorbs the force of the ball instead of being a spring.

the last few innings slobbering over the future of the D-backs?

i hate when announcers do this.

is as bad as or worse than what we saw in the ALCS last year.  And that despite the fact that I'm not aware of either a D'Angelo Jimenez or Mark Kiger sighting.

HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY EYYYY BABY!!
OOH! AHHH!

I've missed exactly...nothing!

Leading by example indeed.

I feel like the strike zone got smaller. Maybe its just because I'm nervous.

that he's up right now.

OMG I'm so excited for them!

so byrnes says he's going to lead by example, and that the d-backs are a better team than the rockies...
then goes 0-4 and ends the game with a head-first slide into first base on a check swing grounder.
yup, same old byrnes.

Sincerely,
Sixto in San Diego

P.S. Why are we STILL sliding into first base???

Helton seems like a pretty good guy.

Taveras is goin' crazy, haha!

Apparently the Rockies did not have the team practice basic sports cliches.  

But this is great for the Rockies. They can thank the Mets for their collapse.

what was the pre-season line on the rockies getting to the world series?
all those gambling addicts in colorado are going to be blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars on coke and lap dances in the next few days.

to play scrimmages with the Rockies to keep 'em from getting rusty

Dearest Michelle,

I am writing to apologize on behalf of my younger cousins for calling you a jinx in 2003. Let's forget for a moment that during our first week going out, the A's blew a 2-0 lead to the Red Sox in the ALDS, and that the Raiders went from the Super Bowl to 4-12.

No way in the world did you have anything to do with that.

I know this because since you peeled out of my driveway in May 2004, the A's have only been to the playoffs once, and the Raiders have gradually gotten worse.

I hope now that you have proven your point, and especially now that I have placed my tail between my legs and apologized, that you can quit with the e-mails.

And I promise not to point out that you have gone from the Giants to the A's to the Rockies since I've known you.

Sincerely,
Don

The fricking Colorado Rockies have made it to more World Series than the A's since 1990.  

The end.    

... I'm the guy who got into the argument with Blez about Cuban possibly owning the Cubs.

Blez writes above: "there isn't a single reason not to love this guy unless maybe you don't like people who wear their hearts on their sleeves."

That's part of the point. Why do I want some guy from Pittsburgh pretending he has his heart on his sleeve for the Cubs just because he has a couple of billion dollars? He hasn't lived and died with my team for decades like I have. He's a dotcom billonaire who can buy love for a baseball team? No thanks.

That's even beside the "all about me" point -- I want a team owner to put the dollars in and then step aside and let his baseball people run the show. Cuban said recently that he'd sit in the bleachers, not in the suites. My answer: "So what?" There wasn't a single word about improving the team. No, his pronouncement was over where HE would sit. And the whole idea of him being in the bleachers in the first place (where he sat for a September game) was to promote his appearance on "Dancing With The Stars".

Yuck. Keep this guy FAR away from the Cubs.

There's a local Chicago-area man who owns the AHL Chicago Wolves, has poured money into this team, made them a winner and very fan-friendly. You've never heard of him. His name is Don Levin. He grew up in Chicago as a Cubs fan. He's the guy who I'd love to see buy the Cubs.