CODY CODY CODY: While Adam is walking back to the subway from Game 1, I just wanted to toss up a thread on the NLCS. I still believe the Giants are going to have a tough time of this one, but at least we get three games at Pac Bell next week.

There was, of course, no reason to think that both Halladay and Lincecum could do anything close to what they did last week, but neither did I think we'd see a 7-run ballgame. Wilson, of course, did everything he could to drag it out. I look forward to proving the logic of sending out Sanchez tomorrow rather than Cain.

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As an aside, I think Adam was a tad optimistic about how Burrell was going to be greeted by the teeming masses of Philadelphia. You'd think he bombed a row-house before he left town, given that reception.

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(In other news, for our limited north Texas readership: Go Rangers!).

SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIT (GOLLY): Barbara Billingsley, dead at 94.

THE QUESTION ISN'T FOR THE AUDIENCE TO FIGURE OUT WHO DON IS. IT'S FOR DON TO FIGURE OUT WHO DON IS: In advance of tomorrow night's season finale, Alan Sepinwall talks to "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner about what we've seen so far. Much talk of the uniqueness of the Don-Peggy bond, and Kiernan Shipka's progression as an actress.

FOR THOSE TIMES WHEN WE THINK OF OURSELVES AS INVENTIVE PARENTS:  This is humbling.

HATES QUITTING; DON'T QUIT: TJ Lavin, a professional BMX rider and host of MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge, is one of the few reality-TV hosts perfectly matched with his show. His laconic delivery counterbalances the contestants' overheated antics, he draws out better performances by encouraging effort and savaging quitters, and he openly disdains his charges. According to a story he told on Bill Simmons's podcast, he waited out a rage tantrum by perennial psychopath CT; he presided over the funniest spelling bee ever televised; he rationed his catch-phrase, "you killed it," because he knew that Simmons and his friends were using it as a metric in their RW/RR Challenge pool.

Lavin took a bad spill at a BMX tour event and is in a medically-induced coma. Hopefully he'll be better soon to calmly belittle more immature Challengers.

GO CRAZY, FOLKS!  Joe Posnanski compiles (with audio and video) the thirty-two greatest announcer calls in sports history.  TPE's favorite is #4.

2 KOOL 2 BE 4-GOT N:  Twice in one week, really?

• Some electronic voting machines in Illinois are listing Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney as "Rich Whitey."
• In an article by Amanda Hess this week about an anti-AIDS campaign in DC, the following correction ran: "This blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men."