No offense, Scott. M, but some of us ’round here love football and baseball, even if this cartoon digs a knife deeper into my back the same week the Tribe hired the ex-manager of a team with a worse record. The regurgitating pumpkin couldn’t have said it any better. Share on Facebook

This one is a good idea, but the technology is wrong:Balls and strikes should be determined by lasers (only those we can spare from volcano-lancing, of course). There’s no excuse for allowing the imprecision of a home-plate umpire in the 21st century.It’s not just imprecision — it’s subjectivity. But I’m not sure how lasers would work. The strike zone varies from batter to batter (e.g., different knee and shoulder heights, and stance). I think it would be better to put in miniaturized GPS-typ

Time passes quickly most days down here under ground. Has it really been 3 weeks since I cared enough about baseball to spill some electronic ink on Matt Holliday’s drop to cost the Cards game 2 of the NLDS? Were the Cardinals even IN the NLDS? Who did they play? Man, it’s tough when your team sucked as much as the Mets did this year. I guess all that matters today is Phillies/Yankees in the 2009 World Series. As a Met fan, it’s no secret that this is a killer choice. I mean, of course I’ll

Joe Girardi has been mostly diplomatic about the number of off days that have made this baseball postseason feel like six months instead of one. Mike Scioscia, however, let his true feelings be known yesterday in a session with L.A.-area writers. “Ridiculous,” Scioscia said when asked for his thoughts. “I don’t know. Can I say it any clearer than that? We should have never had a day off last Wednesday. We should never have three days off after the season. You shouldn’t even have two days off

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