BASEBALL IS NOW NUMBER ONE IN TV RATINGS AND THEY HAVE PUT ON A HELL OF A SHOW

Dat Coise on Da Kubs continues. But it is a management curse and it's called hire more PITCHING. If the Cubs had a closer like Gagne (58 straight saves) eight runs would not have scored in game six. If the Cubs had one more starter they'd have won, maybe. But the Marlins have much better team speed and two of them can steal a game on the base paths; a better defense by far; better arms and speed in the outfield, and the best catcher in baseball. The best TEAM won the series.

Da coise on Boston? Martinez is NOT the pitcher he was a year ago, so they have no consistent starting pitching. They have an offense, a decent defense. Yankees ditto; Clemens at best is good for only seven innings, and he is not the pitcher he used to be either. Neither has the TEAM that the Marlins have.

Face it. The Marlins are dam good. The big news? Baseball has put on a show that everyone watched. Huge ratings for FOX and bad ones for the NFL. Far fewer commercials make the game go faster. Baseball may have won back millions of fans with these series of playoff games. The play is the best any of us have ever seen because the players are the best ever. They are the best in Japan, Korea, Venezuela, Dominican Republic and so on and they came here to play; in other words the best players in the world. Trust me, an old fart, nobody played the game like this in the good old daze. You are seeing the very best play a very difficult game better than it has ever been played.