fastek24, I don't know what you mean by this:

If the National league matchup was Dodgers/Cubs does anyone doubt that Fox in an attempt to "double dip" these big markets would decide that fans could watch both games?

If you're talking about the NLCS and ALCS games that were on simultaneously last week, Fox's decision to run them both in prime time is to maximize viewers. The argument is that more people are able to see the two games, combined, if they're on at the same time in prime time, then if one's in prime time and one's in the afternoon on a weekday. In other words, the number of people who are prevented from watching Game B because it's on in the daytime is greater than the number who are prevented from watching it because it's on opposite Game A.

The numbers back them up. More people watch two prime-time games than similar games when they've been on day/night. The people who get screwed are the ones who actively want to watch both. There aren't a lot of those people, relatively speaking.

So having the Cubs and Dodgers in the NLCS would make all this more true, not less.

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Don't remember who asked, but no, I have nothing against female announcers. I even recently advocated in the column for more of them in the booth. Offhand I like are Pam Ward, who actually does some play-by-play for ESPN, Michelle Tafoya, who does a little, and basketball analysts Nancy Leiberman and Doris Burke. I think there are too many talented women who are totally or mostly ghettoized in the useless role of sideline reporter. Tafoya, Suzy Kolber, Pam Oliver. There are others.

My five favorite broadcasters? I assume you mean national TV. I like Jon Miller, Gus Johnson, Gary Thorne (mostly on hockey) and Marv Albert. I'm just talking play-by-play. The fifth depends on mood. Al Michaels, but I think he's been coasting lately. Keith Jackson, though ditto for him and a lot of his appeal is nostalgia. I think Steve Levy's pretty good on hockey, though it'd be hard to call him a favorite somehow. Dick Enberg used to be among the best. He's now inconsistent, but still has some very good days.

Analysts I like Joe Morgan, but only when he's with Miller, and I think Miller would make anyone good. I like Bill Clement and John Davidson on hockey. I'm one of the few who likes Bill Walton, though he's best with someone who challenges and argues with him, especially Snapper Jones, who's also good without Walton. Hubie Brown totally rocks. I like Phil Simms too. Just thinking out loud here.

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Fox's top 10 postseason home runs was actually a top 11. There were two at No. 10, Kent's and Edmonds' from last year's NLCS. So there's room to take Pujols' out, I guess.

According to Fox, if I counted correctly, five of the 11 greatest postseason home runs of all time have happened since 2003: Pujols, Kent and Edmonds, David Ortiz in the 2004 ALCS and Aaron Boone in the 2003 ALCS.

Without even thinking about what home runs might be missing, I know that can't be true. Boone and Ortiz yes. Edmonds maybe, but probably not. Kent and Pujols, no way, given subsequent events.

Thomson's home run wasn't in the postseason. Tie-breaker playoffs were and are regular-season games.

10. Jeff Kent, 2004 NLCS, Game 5

10. Jim Edmonds, 2004 NLCS, Game 6

9. David Ortiz, 2004 ALCS, Game 5

8. Kirby Puckett, 1991 World Series, Game 6

7. Chris Chambliss, 1976 ALCS, Game 5

6. Aaron Boone, 2003 ALCS, Game 7

5. Dave Henderson, 1985 ALCS, Game 5

4. Joe Carter, 1993 World Series, Game 6

3. Carlton Fisk, 1975 World Series, Game 6

2. Bill Mazeroski, 1960 World Series, Game 7

1. Kirk Gibson, 1988 World Series, Game 1

So I was mistaken. Pujols' homer wasn't on the list.

Still, it's a pretty asinine list, don't you think? Of the top 11 home runs in postseason history, only two of them happened before 1985, and none before 1960. How drab baseball must have been in the old days!

We're so lucky to be living now, when so many of the top moments are happening. And guess what, next time Fox runs a list like this, Pujols' homer will be on it. Why? We have the video! Sorry, Kirby.

I agree that all things being equal, World Series should trump LCS, and Game 7 should trump Game 1 and so on, though I think some allowances have to be made for the drama of the moment and the place a HR has taken in baseball culture. Fisk's and Gibson's homers both get a boost on those scores. But yeah, how Gibson can be ahead of Mazeroski, or even Carter, I don't know.

For Fox, clearly, freshness trumps all. There's no way that Aaron Boone's pennant-winning home run in 2003, for the Yankees' sixth pennant in eight years, is bigger than Chris Chambliss' pennant winning home run in 1976, for their first in 12 years, the first such drought since before Babe Ruth. It's just newer is all.

And also, it's just hideous that, mixed in with the video of all those great home runs, fox, without comment, spliced in spoofed video of Fisk and Gibson, actors, their faces unseen, in uniform "waving the ball fair" as Fisk and pulling a bat out of the rack as Gibson. Dreadful. A complete breech of ethics, even using the Fox scale.