Think about this: David Eckstein, Edgar Renteria's replacement in St. Louis, is in the NLCS. Orlando Cabrera, the guy Renteria replaced with the Red Sox, is in the ALCS. Edgar is watching at home.

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I know it's getting to be time for a vacation when I start obsessing about our Florida trip, which is unfortunately more than two months away. A. and I are taking off to Clearwater Beach for a couple of days while my folks watch the kids, then we've got Epcot and our annual family Chef Mickey's excursion. Chef Mickey's, as I've mentioned here before, has become an annual tradtion that we have been doing since J. was 2, so this will be the 7th year we have gone.



Did you ever notice how many sons of sports reporters there are in the business today? I'm watching game 2 of the NLCS (Roy Oswalt has been incredible so far, by the way - Astros lead 2-0 in the top of the 6th), and Kenny Albert (Marv's kid) was the field reporter. I started thinking of some of the others: Sean McDonough, Joe Buck, Harry Caray's son and grandson, Duke Castiglione. There are probably others I'm not thinking of off the top of my head.