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THE only reasonably good news is that it lasted "only" nine games. With that Tigers-Twins one-game play-in thrown in, this TBS postseason, starring Chip Caray, could have gone, yikes, 13 games.

Ya know how you wonder exactly who's responsible for certain decisions, like $2,500, $1,250 and $850 seats in Yankee Stadium? And attaching Stephen A. Smith to live microphones? Well, someone at TBS decided that Caray's the man to be lead play-by-player on the network's biggest sports telecasts -- for a third straight year.

I don't like piling on Caray, but what about us, the viewers? Unless TBS has no better grip on baseball than does Caray -- or unless we're foils in TV's longest practical joke -- don't we get credit for knowing good from awful?

The Phils beat the Dodgers, 5-4, in Game 4 of the NLCS when Jimmy Rollins, with two out and two on, bottom of the ninth, banged one in the gap and to the wall. With the runners going on contact -- and neither falling down or missing a base -- that was it, game over.

But in the game being played in Caray's head -- nothing like the one being shown on TV -- there was more: "Here's the throw to the plate! ... It's ... not in time!"

That's what he hollered. There was neither a throw to nor a play at the plate; the ball was held by the cutoff man in the outfield. Yet he described both. At the biggest moment in a series, he provided a national TV audience with a live description of action that was not taking place. Again.

Earlier in that game, Caray: "Ten set up, 10 knocked down by Randy Wolf, as he goes to work here in the fifth." As every baseball fan knew, that's crazy talk when applied to a starter who isn't pitching a perfect game. But Caray doesn't have the ability to speak straight, unadorned baseball, such as, "Wolf hasn't allowed the last 10 to reach."

How'd you like to be seated with him for nine innings, let alone nine playoff telecasts, starting with that 12-inning Tigers-Twins epic -- the first of nine straight that Caray and some unidentified TBS exec tried to wreck? Imagine, it could've been worse!

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ESPN REPORTS:

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CHICAGO -- Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen will join Fox Sports as an analyst for the World Series. He will have pregame and postgame duties.

Guillen, known for profanity-laced criticism of his own team at times, just completed his sixth season as manager of the White Sox. He led to the team to the World Series title in 2005.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."