I'll be going to the Rose Bowl so I will miss the end of the Yankees-Tigers game and likely all of the Dodgers-Mets game, but I'll be listening in on the radio.

I bought tickets for tomorrow's game and had them emailed to me. In order to print the entire ticket within the margins of my printer, Adobe Acrobat needs to shrink the page to 96 per cent. It looks fine to me when printed, but I'm worried that the barcode won't read at the stadium. Would it be better to print the tickets at 100 per cent and have some of the print cut off?

Rats... I can't belive it, but my heart is rooting for the Padres today. We have good friends that are Padres fans and I feel their pain.

Single by Roberts
2-base error by Duncan on a Walker liner
Weak ground out by Giles
Grounder to first and Pujols throws out Roberts at the plate
Molina picks off Piazza at first

As long as they can read the numbers below the barcode, they can always just key in the numbers by hand.

Now I know.

I doubt a 96% resolution will screw up the bar code scanners.

In about a week.

Hey, can y'all confirm - is the game start time 4:35 or 5:05? I've seen it listed both ways in various papers...

My girlfriend left at 8:30 for the USC game.

And no quotes from any player of the "Big mistake, but lots of people make mistakes and we've got to bet his back" type thing.

And there's been a shortage of truck washing jokes in the coverage all around, if you ask me.

FWIW. (not much?) I just wonder if the team can rally around it instead of being distracted behind it. Whatever works.

He is so bummed that his fall ball pony league team this season is the Padres. He says that he's going to burn his uniform when the season ends. We keep trying to tell him that it could have been worse, it could have been the Giants.

nomars not coming back and beimel has proved ot be more useful then tomko this year. so what they say really doesnt hold any substance to me.

And go Cardinals. I dont want the Padres advancing and somehow winning a WS.

"Private audiences" just mean that they are smaller than normal. It wasn't one on one.

Then Scott Brosius happened.

And Bob, be careful mentioning Brosius near Ken, the two of them go waaaaay back...

I don't see how the Cardinals-Padres can affect that. The Dodgers would be the only team that would be unique if they made it to the World Series.

A Game 5 would not be seen by me as I will be in the air at the time.

Maybe that'll happen for you, Bob!

Either Torre is getting desperate, has guts and not let Rod's ego get in the way of winning.

Would Grady be able to do the same thing?

Enforcement of this rule varies. Usually they will let you sit in your car with a few drinks, but don't think of setting up a barbecue or anything like that.

I've tripped over many a beer bottle in the parking lot.

My normal route to the game is the 210, to Fair Oaks, to the 110. Is that going to be a bad way to go today? Any suggestions? I can't leave early because of work. Hopefully will be at Fair Oaks around 4pm.

Any help is appreciated from you locals. I have about an eighty mile drive.

You should be able to get down the 110 to the Academy Road exit in plenty of time.

The USC crowd will be coming NORTH on the 110.

And I couldn't be more sick of it already.

You need to take a left (which takes some patience at times). Then take Avenue 26 to end where it forms a 3-way intersection with Pasadena Ave and North Broadway. Turn right on to North Broadway and that will take you into the stadium after turning right on to Solano.

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Good ol' Joe Morgan.

I think that's it. Heck, who doesn't share that belief.

Penn State won in OT 28-27 after Minnesota mised a PAT in the first OT. Apparently, college football protocol doesn't require y ou to pile on the kicker for making a game-ending PAT.

I don't know if I've ever seen a game-ending CONVERTED 1-point PAT.

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Funny, Joe Morgan seems to have forgotten Mike Piazza played for the Dodgers.

My cable system is showing Big 12 game.

Stanford holds on fourth down. When they pull this game out, Brock is going to look like a major jerk for not booking it, as he was told to.

Also, as Nomar's officially won Comeback Player of the Year, take note of this from Josh: "If you're coming to the game, make sure you get here early. Introductions on the field and Nomar's ceremony will start around 4:40 but as you can imagine, we're expecting a lot of people here today. That means parking will be crowded, will call lines will be longer than usual and you'll want to be here for all the festivities."

So I guess official game start time will be closer to 5 after all.

The same Arkansas team that USC clobbered in Fayetteville.

Thats amazing.
6 straight years.

What you can't do is come in off the bench and stand just inside the sideline.

1. A touchdown called back ostensibly because our ball carrier's flag had fallen off, except in reality both of his flags were still on
2. An interception return called back ostensibly because our interceptor had run out of bounds, except in reality he had just gone outside one of the hash marks.

If he were a Yankee they would be trading him right now.

It's a bold assertion on my part.

The alltime postseason record is 15 in a 9-inning game.

Assuming the Cards throw Cartpender tomorrow it may be just putting off the envititable.

It was entitled "Remembrance of Things Past."

109 See Billy Beane and Sabremetrics

Billy who and Sabre what...?

Proust can be a tough read.

Beane...Uris...What's the difference.

How's Brandine doin'?

Hey Ma, get off the danged roof!

Oct. 9 Sports Illustrated out with all-time team. Those surveyed included Bill James and Peter Gammons, and "more than a dozen former and current SI staffers."

Excerpted from and no doubt timed with the SI Baseball Book, "on sale this week."

Those disagreeing--shock, could such a thing possibly happen--are invited to SI.com/baseball to correct things by casting their own ballot.

Manager Jon McGraw, Coaches Joe McCarthy & Casey Stengel

Players (25)--7 starters, 2 relievers, 2C, 7 OF, 7 IF. Team described as a "fascinating blend of art and science."

Starters: Warren Spahn! (exclamation point mine), Lefty Grove, C. Mathewson, Koufax, Walter Johnson, Clemens, Cy Young

Note (mine). Until seeing this I didn't realize Koufax had a posteason ERA of 0.95.

Relievers: Eckersley, Rivera

Catchers: Berra, Bench

IF& OF: Gehrig, Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial, R. Hornsby, Honus Wagner, Mike Schmidt, A-Rod, DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Cobb, Ruth, Mantle, Aaron, Mays

Story said all-time hits leader Rose "simply not better than any of these infielders or outfielders." His gambling had "no impact" on ballot.

Also, Bonds not included "because his freakish late career production linked to steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, has numbers not to be believed."