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Midweek musings: It is time once again for baseball’s ultimate event. Namely, the World Series. Or, as it is known to Chicago Cubs fans: the offseason.
We could have run a photo of a Red Sox player or a fan. Decisions, decisions.
* It seems a reasonable assumption to think most Chicago White Sox fans will not be rooting for the Boston Red Sox. Which is not to say that they necessarily will be rooting for the St. Louis Cardinals.
* It also seems a reasonable assumption to think most Cubs fans will not be rooting for the Cardinals. Which is to say they necessarily will be rooting against the Cardinals. Those Cubs fans not doing so are either a comatose state or focused on the Arizona Fall League where some of the team’s prospects are playing. And, yes, the Arizona action is the closest you will come to seeing Cubs actually in anything resembling the Fall Classic.
* OK, White Sox fans do have the ’05 World Series Crown. And Cubs fans do have the ’08 title — as in 1908. As the late, great broadcaster Jack Brickhouse would say: Anybody can have a bad century. That may need updating to a couple of centuries at the rate things are going with the Cubs.
* Speaking of the World Series, here are some odds from the fine folks at Bovada (www.Bovada.lv, Twitter: @BovadaLV):
ODDS TO WIN 2013 WORLD SERIES MVP
David Ortiz (BOS): 15/2
Dustin Pedroia (BOS): 8/1
Carlos Beltran (STL): 9/1
Matt Holliday (STL): 10/1
Yadier Molina (STL): 12/1
Allen Craig (STL): 12/1
Jacoby Ellsbury (BOS): 12/1
Jon Lester (BOS): 12/1
Adam Wainwright (STL): 14/1
Michael Wacha (STL): 15/1
Matt Carpenter (STL): 15/1
Mike Napoli (BOS): 15/1
Clay Buchholz (BOS): 15/1
Koji Uehara (BOS): 15/1
Xander Bogaerts (BOS): 16/1
David Freese (STL): 18/1
Trevor Rosenthal (STL): 18/1
Matt Adams (STL): 20/1
Shane Victorino (BOS): 20/1
Stephen Drew (BOS): 25/1
We could have run a photo of a Cardinals player or a fan. Decisions, decisions
EXACT SERIES RESULT
St. Louis Cardinals 4-0: 12/1
St. Louis Cardinals 4-1: 6/1
St. Louis Cardinals 4-2: 5/1
St. Louis Cardinals 4-3: 5/1
Boston Red Sox 4-0: 10/1
Boston Red Sox 4-1: 6/1
Boston Red Sox 4-2: 7/2
Boston Red Sox 4-3: 4/1
TOTAL GAMES IN THE SERIES
4: 11/2
5: 13/5
6: 7/4
7: 7/4
WILL THERE BE A GRAND SLAM IN THE SERIES?
Yes: +300 (3/1)
No: -500 (1/5)
MOST HITS, RUNS AND RBI IN THE SERIES
Matt Carpenter (STL): 1/1 (EVEN)
Jacoby Ellsbury (BOS): 4/5 (-125)
Matt Holliday (STL): 10/11 (-110)
Dustin Pedroia (BOS): 10/11 (-110)
Yadier Molina (STL): 1/1 (EVEN)
Mike Napoli (BOS): 4/5 (-125)
Carlos Beltran (STL): 1/1 (EVEN)
David Ortiz (BOS): 4/5 (-125)
Matt Adams (STL): 1/1 (EVEN)
Shane Victorino (BOS): 4/5 (-125
Lariyah Daniels will be on “Sports & Torts” Thursday. Not in this outfit, however.
If it’s Wednesday (which it likely is because yesterday was Tuesday — provided that today is Oct. 23, 2013, or a subsequent Wednesday), then we are rapidly and eagerly approaching another edition of “Sports & Torts” on Talkzone.com with co-hosts David Spada and Elliott Harris. The highly acclaimed (well, it is in the Spada and Harris households, as well as reportedly elsewhere) interview show that broadcasts at noon Central time on Thursdays is happy to welcome back a familiar face for the Oct. 24 program.
Lovely Lariyah Daniels, a woman of many talents, is scheduled to be on the show. Lariyah is a singer with the music group Hessler, a bikini competitor, an artist, a model, personal trainer and more.
Also scheduled to be on “Sports & Torts” this week is Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Jack Ham, one of the starts of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s.
For those who might not be able to tune in Thursday, the show will become available on podcast later in the afternoon. For those who think all this advance information is nothing more than an excuse to run a photo of Lariyah, let me remind you that as sole propietor of this establishment I can do pretty much what I want to (all I have to do is to remember to do it). One of the joys of self-employment.
Here is where to go for a daily dose of non-gratuitous video (thanks to the enterprising efforts of the editorial and video departments at elliottharris.com and their delightful definition of “gratuitous”):
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