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Aint looking good for us.
Give me your address and I'll quickly ship you a Ben Francisco jersey.
Francona has replaced McCarver for the first 2 games of the ALCS telecasts on FOX. McCarver had a minor heart procedure but will be back for ALCS game 3.Wishes for tonight -STL forces game 5, which they go on to win.ARI forces game 5, so Milwaukee can clinch at home.
The best thing TBS has? Jaime Maggio.
Does Busch Stadium need to invest in a dugout dog to help keep the field clear?Roy Oswalt(notes) might think so.For the second straight night, a brave and fast squirrel — we like to think it was the same one — hilariously interrupted a NLDS game between the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies. The tiny critter was even more brazen than it was on Tuesday, streaking across home plate just after Oswalt delivered a pitch to Skip Schumaker(notes) in the bottom of the fifth inning.Watch your toes, Skip!See the interruption hereThough the sight of wildlife streaking through the batter's box is funny enough — we've never seen that before — a few other factors upped the comedy level. Oswalt actually tried to use the squirrel's dash to get the pitch thrown out (no surprise, it was a ball) but his argument with home plate umpire Angel Hernandez was unsuccessful. Judging from the replay, there was no way it had an actual bearing on the play as Oswalt's pitch was in the catcher's mitt before the squirrel made its way into the playThe squirrel's innocence didn't change what Phillies manager Charlie Manuel would have liked to do to the intruder (via The 700 Level): "Being from the south, being a squirrel hunter, if I had a gun there I mighta did something. I'm a pretty good shot," Manuel said after the game.Other things we liked: Schumaker not seeing the squirrel despite it running across his feet, the crowd scattering as it made its escape into the stands and the squirrel predicting both a big return and a Cardinals win via his Twitter account on Tuesday night. St. Louis forced a decisive Game 5 with a 5-3 win, bringing their record in squirrel-interrupted games to an even 1-1.
This is the best shit ever. Go squirrel go!!! http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Squirrel-returns-to-Busch-Stadium-heads-for-hom?urn=mlb-wp22794
So much for Francona managing the White Sox, as has been rumored. Robin Ventura, the former White Sox and Mets player, is now the White Sox skipper. Only 44 years old and has little (or no) managerial experience, so it's easy to see this move going either way in a few years. On the plus side, the White Sox aren't afraid to spend and the team he'll inherit isn't half bad. I thought they underachieved this year.
