Well, it’s a little easier to take the World a little less serious when the Yankees are mostly all off hunting and fishing. I don’t see Jeter out for elk or bass, but hopefully AJ Burnett’s got his head somewhere else. And hopefully the seething pain of an early dismissal continues to burn in CC Sabathia’s head and heart. Yes, four or five bad Yankee fans spitting on Cliff Lee’s perky blonde wife doesn’t aid in the wooing of the lefty, but CC can do it.
As for the actual World Series, I’m still going with the underdog Giants and tonight’s match-up of Cy Young winners, the aforementioned Lee and the Freak should make for really excellent autumn baseball. The Giants connection to the Yankees goes well past the face that they shared stadiums in New York back in the old ages.
Brian Sabean, the Giants’ GM, was Yankee-trained and was very nearly Gene Michael’s replacement. As is, Sabean is the dude who drafted Jeter. And he’s brought over such a team of Yanks who were with, or under him in the Yankee organization. The list includes Rags, BamBam Meulens and Roberto Kelly in uniform. But Dirt Tidrow, Joe Lefebvre and, surprisingly, Steve “Bye-Bye” Balboni, who did not eat himself to death, but is an advance scout for San Francisco.
If you haven’t been following or missed the interview with Brian Wilson after the closing of the NLCS, you really, really must. Google Brian Wilson and “the machine;” I promise it will be worth your time.


There’s a chance that Marco J. Spumante will be rising phoenix-like from the ashes of my writing career. I’ll keep you posted or direct you to his blog or site as soon as He has something to talk to you about…

There could be some other projects in the pipeline. The fast approaching end of baseball marks an increase in productivity. I am sure there’s some sort of correlation, but I don’t know what it is.