College of Sports Media Game of the Night:

Is this game six of the World Series 2009 or have we warped back to 1999? The two starters for this incredibly important game are veterans Andy Pettitte for New York and Pedro Martinez for Philadelphia. Add their ages together and you get 75. Whether it’s the right thing to do or not Yankees manager Joe Girardi is sticking with starting his pitchers on only three days rest. Pettitte got the start in game three, the first in Philadelphia. He was scored on early, but held things together for six innings of work and earned his 17th post season win. Pettitte worked on three days rest in the ALCS and pitched the clinching game in New York. Pedro Martinez on the other hand last pitched in game two of the series. Despite a couple of bad pitches he was pretty good in front of the hostile Bronx crowd. He went six innings, struck out eight, but gave up two crucial home runs that lead to an eventual Yankee win. If he can do the same and Philly can provide him with some offence, this series may just go seven. Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard has been dreadful in the World Series. In the NLCS, Howard was batting .333 with two home runs and eight RBIs. In the championship, he’s hitting below his weight, .158, has one RBI and 12 strike outs. Yuck!

College of Sports Media Game of the Night:

The Philadelphia Phillies finished off the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-4 last night winning the NLCS in five games (deja vu anybody?) The Phillies will look to become the first NL team to win back-to-back titles since the 1975-76 Cincinnati Reds. In the ALCS, game five goes tonight and the New York Yankees have a commanding 3-1 series lead. New York has gotten two incredible starts from CC Sabathia and Alex Rodriguez has been incredible. In his first four playoffs with the Yanks, he had a grand total of four home runs and nine RBIs. Already this post-season A-Rod’s gone deep five times, driven in 11 and is hitting a blistering .407. In total the Bronx Bombers have hit 14 home runs (tied with the Phillies for the league lead during the playoffs) and combined for 54 RBIs. Unfortunately for the Los Angeles Angels this team looks unstoppable. The Angels will do their best tonight. They send John Lackey to the mound in this critical game. New York goes with AJ Burnett. Whether the Yanks win tonight or not, one things is for sure. Game one of the World will be on Wednesday, October 28th and the Philadelphia Phillies will be the visiting team.

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On Fan 590 Tonight-

- open phones with McCown from 4:05 to 4:40
- co-host from 5:00 to 7:00 is jim Kelley
5:20 Nick Kypreos, Sportsnet
5:40 Bart Andrus, Argos Head Coach
6:05 Don Banks, SI.COM
6:30 David Branch, CHL President & OHL Comish
6:45 Keith Law, ESPN on the ALCS & NLCS

On 640 with Brady and Watters thanks to Mike S.:

- Brian Duff of NHL Network on hockey
- hockey insiders Darren Dreger & Bob McKenzie at 6:10

College of Sports Media Game of the Night:

The NLCS kicked off last night as the Philadelphia Phillies used the long ball en route to a 8-6 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Tonight it’s the American League’s turn to get things going. Barring any type of weather postponement the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Angels kick off game one of their series tonight in the Bronx. At first glance this looks like a classic example of David versus Goliath. New York had the best record (103-59) in the AL. The Yanks hit the most home runs (244) in the regular season and continue to do so in the playoffs. They have the three hard throwing pitchers that there going to rely on and they have arguably the best closer in the history of the game. On yeah they’re yearly payroll is close to 208 million dollars. The Angles had the second best record (97-56) in the AL and are arguably the best small ball team in baseball. They’re great at stealing bases, moving runners over and getting the timely hits with runners in scoring position. They have crafty pitchers, who can strike batters out with a little heat or use some of the off-speed junk to get hitters missing. During the regular season they played against other ten times and each team won five games (NY 3-1 vs LA @ home, LA 4-2 vs NY @ home). Tonight New York starts CC Sabathia. Sabathia dominated the Minnesota Twins in game one of the ALDS, going six and two thirds, striking out eight and giving up only one earned run. Los Angeles counters with John Lackey. Lackey was just as dominant in his first start against the Boston Red Sox. Lackey went seven and third, gave up four hits without giving up an earned run. Weather may be a factor tonight and if that’s the case Sabathia has the edge. Not only is he used to pitching in New Yankee Stadium, but he was once a Cleveland Indian and used to the frigid temperature.