More:
Chicago Sun-Times: “Oswalt personifies the Astros. He’s small, slight and nothing much to look at. But he assumes bigger and badder proportions whenever he takes the field.”
Chronicle: “As the wheels lowered and the Astros’ team charter approached home in the early-morning hours Thursday, an announcement came over the intercom. Please open the shades on the windows.
Lined along both sides of the taxiway at Bush Intercontinental Airport were airport police cars, emergency trucks, paramedic vehicles  lights flashing and horns blaring. And at the end of the taxiway were a pair of firetrucks, one on each side of the airplane, splashing water over the plane.
Like champagne.”
Myrtle Beach Online (huh?): “It’s not enough that the Chicago Cubs haven’t won a World Series since 1908.
Or that the other “cursed” team, the Boston Red Sox, snapped their jinx last year.
Now God, in his infinite wisdom and apparent disdain for Cubs fans, has put the Houston Astros and the Chicago White Sox, the two most hated franchises among lovers of the Lovable Losers, in the World Series.”
New York Times: “Who knows what [Clemens and Pettitte] were actually saying to each other? Who cares? To fans in Houston and New York, and perhaps to a well-known and frustrated baseball owner in Tampa, Fla., all that mattered was that two pitchers who had starred for the Yankees and then taken divergent paths to reunite in Houston had made it back to the World Series. And they had done so while their old team in the Bronx, the one with the $200 million payroll, had again come up short…
…Clemens will be standing on the mound again Saturday night, naturally, in the World Series opener. Contreras will be there, too. Pettitte will follow in Game 2. The Houston homeboys believed they could get this far after leaving New York and helped make it happen. Steinbrenner may want to keep his television turned off for the rest of the month.”
San Antonio Express-News: “No matter whom you’re rooting for in the upcoming World Series, there’s one thing you have in common with opposing fans  and anyone else who might be listening.
You’re going to get aggravated at Fox analyst Tim McCarver. McCarver is the master of the annoyingly obvious observation.”
(For the record, I totally agree. There’s even a webpage: Shut Up Tim McCarver.)
“pair of firetrucks, one on each side of the airplane, splashing water over the plane.” I got to ride with my Dad (in a car, not a plane) when the PTC firemen provided the same salute to his girls going to a national conference. It’s actually pretty amazing.