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Game 5 match up between St Louis and Philadelphia will feature Carpenter and Halladay. I bet it's higher scoring than the pitchers' duel we would anticipate. Soon be moving to 7 game series. I wish they were 5 games long, or they cut the regular season by 10 games so they could finish before All Saints Day!

TB Rays. Too bad? Tuberculosis? Congratulations Dallas.

Spicy Cajun or Zydeco. A gumbo of musical influences.

Oh well. Lot of good pitching by the young Rays starter in Arlington. Rangers can catch up tomorrow!

One trillion plusses to you for this totally right message, as far as I am concerned. Lose the chance to go to the first of 3 rounds of baseball tournament going into October and even November? MLB must be kidding me!

I would like to see a team that has come close but didn't quite make it, like the Rangers or Rays. Brewers would be interesting. How many teams have switched leagues and gone to the Series in both? Winning for the NL would make it hard to move them back to the AL. But overall I think they should be returned to the AL. Moving them to the NL is partly the reason for the imbalance.

Thanks for posting this!

Too bad, Braves and Red Sox fans! The match ups I want to watch are all in the first round. Arizona-Milwaukee, and Texas-Tampa. After that, I won't be too interested.

What's so great about seeing sudden death games involving teams that are not playing well? I would rather not see a team back into the playoffs despite sucking for the last month of the season.

I vote for Ryan Zimmerman of DC for Gold Glove. Nobody takes the bad hops the way he does then slings it side armed to second for the start of a double play.

That will be mathematically difficult since we will finish with 161 games, barring any rain outs in our three game series with the Marlins. We are 78-80 now and would have to sweep to make it 81-80. I am cautiously hoping for 80-81. Also, time to do away with the curly W and use an interlocking DC as our logo. What in the world will we call ourselves if we gain statehood one of these days? There's already a Washington state. The name Washington DC would only complicate matters. Better to call us DC, imo. Braves face a tough match up against the Phils. I figure both teams will ratchet it up these last few days.

I have often rooted for St Louis as a second choice when my teams don't make it to post-season, but the way they and Atlanta are backing into the playoffs this year has me rooting for Arizona. Milwaukee should be in the American League, instead of moving Houston in 2013. Of course MLB would never admit they were wrong to move Milwaukee in the first place, so I am afraid it will be "screw you, Houston."

So much for the "blue collar" Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies. Millionaires irrationally worshiped as working class heroes. Soon to be that way in Washington Columbian District with its Nationals baseball team. I will probably be priced out of attending games once the team starts winning.

Yes, Chien-Ming has been one of the success stories for Washington this year. Might never match his days with NY, but he'd be a great addition to our staff next year, and I heard him say nice things about the organization for sticking with him. Now, if we could get Ivan Rodriguez back next year and beyond as a player/coach! How rare are player/coaches these days! Would love to see him get his 3000th hit in DC, though he doesn't need it to be a first ballot HOFer, imo.

What a dummy Einstein turned out to be! (if the Washington Post sportswriters were writing about science).

No, the nightmare this year was all the televised Yankees and Red Sox games. Infuriating. East coast unimaginative baseball writers are going to absolutely ruin baseball if they keep driving it this way. MLB will be like the NBA, where nobody wants any final teams except the Lakers and the Celtics.

Your luck might change this weekend in Washington. I am going to Friday night's game, weather permitting. Strasburg pitching. But we are due for some losses. Been winning more often lately than we can sustain. If we keep up like this, we will get close to .500. I can't see it!

Yes, I think so. Not a stupid question at all. When I got the free Amazon Cloud Player, I loaded it to my PC and my phone at the same time. Some programs allow that. I didn't see how to do that with this program, but maybe you can. If you have a Droid phone, you have an icon on the screen for something like a marketplace for applications. Just open it and search on MLB AT BAT 11, or even MLB, and you should be able to find it. Can't help you with an iPhone or any other brand. There's always someone knowledgeable who can help at the store where you bought the phone, if you bought it in person.

Try MLB At Bat 11. Pretty cheap, like $20 if I remember right. I listen to our local radio broadcasts of Washington Nationals games. There's a premium version that includes video, but the cheap version has radio and a graphical interface doing play by play, with brief video of highlights and spectacular plays.

Hey, I have some of these. Had no idea they were Martins.

Man called Rankin' Toyan! Scientist! Specialist!

The imbalance was caused in part by moving Milwaukee to the NL. Return them to the AL where they belong. Leave Houston in the NL, imo.

Never understood how anyone could say "This is an irrelevant game." It might not mean anything for the pennant race, but that does not make it irrelevant. That's pretty unimaginative. It might be some kid's first major league game, or just something to remember. I will always be grateful to the neighboring family who took me along to their trip to the Astrodome to see the lowly Astros play the Koufax era Dodgers for my first major league game. We sat in bum fuck Egypt centerfield, and we could hardly see what was happening between pitcher and batter, but it was magic to me, and hardly irrelevant at all! Been an Astros fan ever since. I remember Gene Elston and Lowell Passe doing the broadcasts. Thanks for the clips and the memories!

Have a good one!