As the days dwindle down to a precious for for Baseball 2007, SI headlines with the LCS.
Michael Wilbon noted on Pardon the Interruption that it might be hard to get behind the NCLS since the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks teams have been around only a relatively short time. It’s not like the cubs, where you have grandfathers and grandsons crying together over another disappointment. Jack McCallum covered the NL; Tom Verducci handled the junior circuit.
The American League, on the other hand, features the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox have rich histories.
Tony Gwynn, one of the TBS game announcers (see NY Times sports media analyst Richard Sandomir’s assessment, as well as SI‘s Richard Deitsch), is the subject of this week’s “Q&A”; Ben Reiter reports how “The Rockies are loaded with ex-QBs”; and an item on how the Rockies have voted to pay the family of Mike Coolbaugh — the first base coach for their minor league Tulsa Drillers who was killed by a line drive — a full World Series share.
Enjoy this while it lasts. Come November, you can expect stories on baseball to be few and far between.
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