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The 100th anniversary World Series starts Saturday with the Florida Marlins playing the New York Yankees. Talk about unlikely matchups. Dr. S was pulling for the Red Sox, himself, but he was NOT pulling for the Cubs. The only good thing about the Cubs is most of their games are on WGN, so Dr. S can watch them lose regularly. Cubs whiners everywhere are blaming their meltdown in the NLCS on the actions of one man. Dr. S agrees, one man kept the Cubs out of the World Series, and that man is Cubs manager Dusty Baker.

Meanwhile, Hitch Magazine's Rod Lott weighs in on the BoSox ...

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
A glass-is-half-full Red Sox fan on NPR's 'Morning Edition,' commenting on the cursed team's game 7 loss to the Yankees: "If we won, they'd be flippin' cars and torchin' stuff, so you gotta look on the bright side."