Karin reports some guy just canceled a date with her so he can watch the World Series with his roommate tonight.

Turns out that one of Wellesley's two rabbis is from New York, while the other is from Pennsylvania. They have a bet.

Dear Pedro: You don't have to brush back A-Rod, just strike him out.

They don't get much younger than this.

Or did somebody drop a 16-ton weight (labeled "Acme," of course) on his thumb, which caused it to swell up to 1,000 times its normal size and throb bright red and made his eyes balloon out of his head - as an old Model T horn blared in the background?

Did anybody manage to finish today's Shaughnessy column, in which Danny Boy just can't keep from marveling that few people in London have ever heard of Tom Brady?

Dan Shaughnessy Watch valiantly tries, also noting Shank's continuing disdain for Stateside Patriots fans.

Ed. note: Yes, I admit it: I've been waiting for the right moment to use that line from that eTrade baby commercial.

Three words: ALCS, Game 7.

Angela has a lot to be happy about this morning, including:

...Laurence Maroney ran like he should. For the first time in a while, he wasn't auditioning for "Dancing With the Stars". ...

Father Tim Schenck of Hingham passes along word that Tom Brady tops the list of athletes consigned to hell by some Baptist church in North Carolina - where the minister is also planning a gala Halloween barbecue and book burning to destroy Satanic works, such as those written by Billy Graham, Mother Theresa - and non-King James Version bibles. Yes, a church is going to burn bibles.

Via Ellen Rossano.

Sad, sorry, and irritable now that the Sox have been booted from the playoffs? There's a cure for the post-season elimination blues!