What a game. And what an interview:  •  “...I haven't been right all year round. But I guess, you know, when you don't feel good and you still get hits, that's when you know you are a bad man.”  •  And the Yankees lost, too. It's all good.

While the top story in my last 24 hours has to be Beckett finishing his  •  complete game by setting aside the Angels like a librarian shelving a book  •  [Ed.: Yes! My own sports analogy!] in time for the Bionic Woman's second  •  episode to start, it was really the realization that BW2 [Ed.: Yes …

It is a grand thing when your fantasies and solid factual reality coincide so that your predictions for the playoffs can be as good as mine are:  •  “American League  •  1) Angels vs. Red Sox (Sox in 7)  •  2) Yankees (yeecht!!!) vs. Indians (Cleveland in six)  •  3) Red Sox vs. Indians (Red Sox …

Why don'tcha talk about what you talked about yesterday? The Padres and Rockies went late, you know. Not that I stayed up but you have to stay in there until at least extra innings start. You know. Hoffman sucks. Padres lose. Glavin sucks. Mets lose. Hoffman and Glavin will be in the Hall of Fame …

Sad news:  •  “The Mets’ listless 8-1 loss to the Florida Marlins yesterday, coupled with the Philadelphia Phillies’ 6-1 victory against the Washington Nationals about five minutes later, eliminated them from postseason contention and saddled them with one of the biggest collapses in baseball …

I missed the champagne spraying. We were out, invited to eat dinner in a hotel restaurant - the sort of thing I rarely do. But we have a grand time and when we got home the Sox were winning and Papelbon put it to bed - and the Yanks were up 9-6 against Baltimore. So I didn't pay any more attention …

I like the Baseball Hall of Fame. It's where it should be, in a small town that has a claim (however tenuous now) to being a place where baseball started. Though no one really believes Abner Doubleday invented the game in the 1840s in Cooperstown, NY, the fact that the myth survived is in itself …

There is a certain type of jockeying going on to be sure. Joe Torre does not put Kyle Farnsworth in the game the Yanks end up losing in extra innings (best call of the night after the bottom of the ninth, all tied up: "Free Baseball!") if he is not sure the greater good is being served. But was it …

OK, so it wasn't the end of summer last week. It's this weekend. You wouldn't know it. as it is going to push 30C later today in some parts of Ontario today. A weekend of actual sunshine, warmth and nothing to really do lays out before me. What to do? What to do? We have been playing a sort of …