ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT / SUNDAY MORNING COMING DOWN

Just a short post before hitting the hay (the author has a bad cold, and that's the least of the problems on a lonely Saturday night):

Yes, Cardinals rookie Anthony Reyes pitched eight-plus innings to hand the Detroit Tigers a 7-2 loss in Game 1 of the World Series, and the "Worst. World. Series. Team. Ever." drew first blood. Reyes surprised a lot of people, but it's not so surprising that the Tigers would lose ... they hadn't played in a week.

(By the way, great thing about being a Canadian baseball fan: Rogers Sportsnet picks up the international feed, so you can watch the games free Joe Buck, free of Tim McCarver, and a free of promos for courtroom and/or medical dramas with one-word titles.)

In hockey -- and baseball post-season is much like hockey now, in that the best teams aren't necessarily the ones left playing at the end -- you routinely see a team go from one series right to another and win the first game against a team that's had a week off.

As anticipated here, the Tigers have Kenny Rogers starting Game 2 tonight, "figuring that (he) will be more poised if Detroit drops Saturday's opener."

There'll be a hockey recap, a look at Canadian university football (enjoy that road trip for the playoffs, Western) and Neil and I's NFL Picks will all go online later today. That much you can count on. Nighty-night.