1. Anyone notice the quick Fox promo (I only saw it during Game 1) promoting American Idol where the contestants sang "Take Me Out To The Ballgame?" At the beginning they showed a graphic that looked like a scorecard. At the top it said Mets vs. Tigers.
Oops.
I guess the Fox people weren't expecting the Game 7 win by the Cards in the NLCS.
Making promos on the radio, I've been bitten before by the "didn't doublecheck" bug. It's not fun.
"Tony (LaRussa) said a couple of hitters complained the ball was doing some funny things," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said during an in-game TV interview from the dugout on Fox Sports. "Evidently, Tony brought it to their attention, but obviously it wasn't anything."
After the game, LaRussa tersely told reporters he would not discuss the matter.
Palermo said, " Alfonso Marquez, the home-plate umpire, asked him to remove the dirt so there wouldn't be any question about any controversy."
Rogers denied that his meeting with the umpires had anything to do with the substance on his hand.
Four different people and four slightly different stories of what happened.
However, it seems the both Fox and ESPN are just dying to see controversy. They were almost in tears that Rogers was not ejected and suspended. It was hilarious to see Palermo remind reporters that dirt is not a foreign substance.
"That's the playing surface," he told reporters after the game.
