Harpo, Chico, Groucho, Zeppo, and Wednesday

Oh, horse feathers!!

---Go, Tampa Bay Rays! I am rooting for you in the World Series.

---And seeing where my teams generally wind up, this is not a good thing.

---Who's going to explain to Phillie fans the concept of "4 out of 7?"

---I look at all those neanderthals in Citizens Bank Ballpark and I wonder how many of them have bookmarks in "Dick and Jane Got to School?"

---These are fans who would boo Jesus.

---"Hey, Christ, it's been weeks since you did the Lazarus bit. What have you done lately?"

---Watching the Red Sox mount that comeback in the eighth inning of Game 7, I had a nagging thought. Who would they have wanted up with the bases loaded? Jason Bay or Manny Ramirez?

---Also, watching that young kid pitcher, David Price, wiggle out of the jam for the Rays, I had another nagging thought. If only Joe Torre had shown that much faith in Clayton Kershaw coming out of the bullpen.

---Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon reminds me of Bill Cullen without the limp.

---Of course, all the World Series hoopla will go for naught since we will have another series of games ending around 1AM Eastern time.

---I can remember when kids would listen to the World Series on transistor radios in class. Now they barely know the games even exist.

---Watching the postseason, I had one more nagging question. The Mets didn't make it???

---As much as I used to love Fox broadcaster Tim McCarver, who essentially taught my mother how to watch and enjoy a baseball game, I can see and hear the end of the line for him.

---Timmy, especially during that Manny flap, is starting to sound awful cranky. And, in one game, he referred to Frankie Frisch at least three times.

---Most viewers these days probably think Frankie Frisch is a character on "Family Guy."

---Sadly, history pales over time and younger viewers these days generally can't consider anything more than twenty years in the past.

---This explains why Met catcher Todd Pratt's homerun in the Game 4 of the 1999 NLDS was one of the top five moments in Met history.

---Huh??? In Met history, there is 1969 and then everything else.

---Barry Obama cut short his campaign to go to Hawaii and his maternal grandmother who is about to get the full length sheet over her.

---Probably as a result of injuries incurred by that bus he threw her under months ago.

---Like Tim McCarver, John McCain is starting to sound awful cranky.

---I've seen McCain's future and there is a checkerboard in it.

---I've seen John Kerry's name bantered about as a potential member of Obama's cabinet and I hope you are all satisfied now.

---Kerry made a joke about McCain wearing Depends. That's funny since it was Kerry who pissed away his political legacy in 2004.

---Would Colin Powell have endorsed Obama if he was five points behind?

---Since Powell has waffled his way through the Republican, Independent, and Democratic parties, the only thing that remains consistent is that he always look damn good in that Army beret.

---When asked by voters in Pennsylvania and Florida about who he was rooting for in the World Series, Obama said "both teams."

---That must be the same as voting "present" in Congress.

---PICK A FREAKIN' TEAM, OBAMA!!!

---Geez, even Rudy Guiliani wore a Yankee hat to Shea Stadium during the 2000 World Series. Now, that took a brass pair.

---Has anybody out there ever heard from one of these polling companies???

---I know a little bit about that business and I can tell you that it is virtually impossible for any of these places to develop a representative sample these days.

---If they are doing it via the telephone, forget it! Most people screen and lots more households are solely on cell phones and those phone numbers are not eligible.

---Inaccurate: 51%, Nobody Gives a Shit: 49%.

---There is a voting proposition out here in Los Angeles. Yes or no on #8. A "no" vote means you don't think that the right for gays to marry should be revoked.

---The result of all this is frenzy throughout West Hollywood, the aptly named "Swish Alps." Don't stand still anywhere near there as you might be blocking the way of two guys or two girls running to get their marriage license before Election Day.

---It's like a version of "The Amazing Race" that would air on the Logo channel.

---It's a shame that fashion designer Mr. Blackwell died and is missing this. He probably had a great yellow chiffon number that would be perfect.

---I've actually been invited to one such occasion and I have no idea which bride to kiss first.

---Maybe I should just vote "present."

Dinner last night: Leftover pot roast sandwich.