Love the workaround on the two-sentence rule. And yes, that's the game I'll be watching on Sunday.

Will the Red Sox team and curt Schilling in particular be injecting all manner of pain relieving steroids and other performance enhancing drugs during this series as they did during their series win a couple of years ago?

And the world makes fun of Barry Bonds and slights his achievements while he hits home runs off of pitchers that have leg muscles surgically implanted in their arms.

I'm glad that the Red Sox are the favorite for the Series, and it's going to be a great fight to get the prize. Even if Boston doesn't win, it's going to be a great Series.

Take it easy with that steroids crack, buddy. People might take offense to that comment (*growl!*). Don't be as dirty as that bloody sock. I am against anyone using steroids, but if someone gets a shot in a game due to an injury, that's different. But if Schilling is abusing (or any other player), then get him the hell outta the game.

Let's have fun watching for the love of game. That's what it's all about.

Peace out, y'all!

Was absolutely correct. And led to the total embarrassment of the entire Arizona organization from Manager to fans. It led to the typical TV announcer speech about a few jerks throwing things on the field that does not represent all the knowledgeable and mature fans. Here's how it works......

A.) Team doesn't play well. Their ace gets spanked. They piss away their own rallies. They make errors leading to runs.

B.) An uncommon call is made by the umps. Replay shows it to be 100 percent accurate. Which was easy enough to see in real time. The classic thing is a double play wasn't going to happen anyhow--too slow a grounder and too slow a turn--and the runner, who should have realized this, intentionally body blocks anyhow. So player jaws and manager comes out and jaws. Fans go nuts hollering and booing. Oh boy, now we have an oppurtunity to blame the whole thing on the umps.

C.) This gives the green light, as always, to the goons to start throwing things on the field. WE'RE GETTING SCREWED. It's all one group effort starting with the frustrated manager going off about the correct call.

D.) And for the remainder of the game ball-strike calls are booed both ways. Which the fans certainly can't determine to be accurate or not. Just mindlessly booing any call that goes against the home team, which was the case in the initial double play call too.

It's embarrassing.

I feel pretty sure that the Indians closer is going to blow a save in this one. He is just too shaky and the Sox have a great comeback lineup.

The question will be, which game does it happen in? If it happens in a game started by one of the aces, then that will probably lead to the Sox winning in 7, but if the Indians can lead in one of the games by Byrd or Westbrook then they can survive.

It should be a great series.

Youth usually wins out at this time of year, not experience, so I give the Tribe the edge.

You can see the Arizona runner's mind in action...Ooops my slide didn't get him so I better extend out, coming out of the slide, and hammer him.

Sucking up to King again...

You don't get this analysis anywhere...

Bring on McCarver!

Great column....

I'm looking at the letter by Shawn

Steroids are not painkillers.

Schilling was not on steroids in 2004. I have no idea whether he was on painkillers, but really, it doesn't matter because there's nothing immoral about using painkillers!!! Athletes use painkillers all the time. Painkillers are not performance-enhancing.

(You're supposed to allege that Schilling was faking the bleeding ankle, BTW. That's the more standard smear.)

Are not performance enhancers? They could have played the same without the pain? Why take the painkillers?...... They were taken to alleviate pain and enhance performance. Sometimes needed to be able to play at all. I'd say that's enhancing.

Not anymore. But pitchers today are all soft. They used to pitch every third day.

They'd throw 500 innings a year.

If the game went 17 innings, they were expected to throw for 17 innings.

If their wife had a kid during the season, they'd get acquainted during the offseason, rather than missing games to be at the birth.

And if they hurt, they either went out there and relished the pain, or they knocked back a bottle of bourbon and then went out there and relished the pain.

They're all soft today. All of 'em.

I have to disagree with King as well on the Justin Upton double play call. If you look at the replay, Upton comes sliding into second, touches the base, then uses the base to propel his body towards Matsui. Upton claimed afterwards that it was his momentum that carried him through the base and into Matsui. But the fact that Matsui was to the far right side of the bag makes this unlikely. I think this picture makes that pretty clear: http://www.nydailynews.com/img/2007/10/12/alg_matsui-out.jpg.

My hope, however, is that this call doesn’t prompt another round of “bring instant replay to baseball” talk, which seems to come up every year during the playoffs. Replay just doesn’t belong in baseball the way it does in football. The game doesn’t move nearly as quickly. The number of controversial calls is much fewer. There is a much more acceptable tradition of umpire discretion in baseball e.g. the phantom foot slide over the base on double play balls, listening for the pop of the ball in the glove in close plays at first, the use of "make up calls". And it is unlikely that any single call in baseball will decide the game one way or the other.

Ok, King Kaufman- enough!

Both Red Sox and Patriots go down this week?

Rarely do I complain about a column and usually

I rave about your columns. But, this is too much.

After the Sox have been first in the AL since last May

you think they will lose? Give it up!

And, the Patriots will not give it up to Dallas- in your dreams

Kaufman.

Earth to Kaufman- Reality awakens.

pris