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After three weeks of baseball

After three weeks of baseball playoff games involving both Bay Area teams plus football and the start of the NHL season, it's a litle strange to have a day with absolutely nothing of interest sports-wise on TV. It's almost comical how wrong the statheads' predictions were. On the other hand, I ferverently hope that a few October games doesn't cause the Giants to do something stupid like giving Dunston another season or signing Lofton to a big long-term deal. The games were sloppy, badly managed, but tense and exciting in that slow, deliberate baseball way, except Fox has to add in graphics, sound effects, and unneceesary zooms to ruin it all. Let's not even get started about the commentators, although I don't think Tim McCarver is all that bad. He'd probably make a better bench coach than an announcer, though. Both the Niners and the Giants were involved in close, back-and-forth games, but I was sure that the Niners were going to come back and win (on a signature play, no less), while fatalistically assuming that the Giants are going to lose the game, go back to St. Louis, and blow the 3-1 lead. Makes me feel like a child of the 80's. Bad memories of John Tudor, I guess.