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CrabAppleLane Observations of the World Series: Pitching has thoroughly dominated this series so far and I expect that trend to continue. I don’t want to get too far ahead of this but this Cardinal fan can’t help thinking that with Suppan pitching tonight, Reyes pitching again tomorrow night, and the way Detroit is swinging their bats in this series ... from my seat in Bush, I'm wondering if maybe the Tigers might be the only team flying back to Detroit Thursday night. That would be fine by me but I still tend to think this thing goes seven and I like having Carpenter on the mound Sunday night if it comes to that. When was the last time Albert Pujols walked up to the plate in a big game with the bases loaded? Nothing good can come of that for the Tigers. That said, I thought Zach Miner was going to get Pujols after he tied him up with those two nasty inside strikes but he couldn’t finish the job and the Cards tacked on another run. Could have been a lot worse, though. Gateway Pundit's take on smudgegate (Great pics, too). Via Dave at Fish Fear Me. Oh, yeah, one more thing:

There are losers and then there are losers.

Quote of the Day

If we don't swing the bats better, they'll go up, 3-1. That's as simple as it is.

Jim Leyland, Detroit Tigers Manager

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "It's the first time since 1970 (Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati) that a World Series game was played in a venue's first season. Other stadiums: Forbes Field (Pittsburgh Pirates) in 1909, Polo Grounds (New York Giants) in 1911, Fenway Park (Boston) in 1912 and Yankee Stadium in 1923."