Couple of thoughts from watching the Yankees-Red Sox ALCS:
-- The not-so dark secret of the "media," especially writers on deadline: We hate close games and late rallies, especially those that end at 1 in the morning. But at least there was a thrilling end to Game 4.

Even worse are long games that end way late and were over hours ago, like Game 3. While it was fun to see the Yankees win such a laugher, it was also aggravating seeing it was 10:30 and the game was only in the fourth inning, knowing that I had to get up at about 6 a.m. the next morning to go to Chattanooga to play half a trash tournament.

-- Al Leiter doesn't get a lot of chances to talk as the third guy in the booth, but he offers a lot of decent insight, especially about pitching. That probably means many viewers will hate him when he officially becomes an announcer upon his retirement.

-- This is probably based on the people I'm usually around, but I swear this series seems a lot like the election, and it's not just the Kerry from Massachusetts bit.
You know there are lots of Yankees fans everywhere, much like you know there are plenty of those voting for Bush.

And yet a wide majority of people I know are voting for Kerry and rooting for the Red Sox, although more to the point, they're actually voting against Bush (a sort of Yellow Dog thing) and rooting against the Yankees.

It seems pretty indicative of today's divisive political climate: No one actually has a cause they support, but instead of bunch of axes to grind. Many won't ever be happy, just less pissed off at something.