SF Giants a cast of loveable knuckleheads  —  (10-24) 17:13 PDT — Juan Uribe had a running joke with a couple of reporters toward the end of the regular season.  The Giants were in Chicago, where Uribe helped the White Sox win the 2005 World Series, and he said, “This is my town.”

Yankees need uptight Girardi to lighten up  —  Tweet  —  Joe Girardi and the Yankees have no place else to turn, so they will return to each other.  —  Sometime in the next week, I suspect, Girardi will re-up for something in the neighborhood of three years at $10 million.  —  What alternative does Girardi have?

Black buddies with Jays' skip  —  PHILADELPHIA - John Farrell is following in Buddy Black's footsteps.  —  He's just taking longer strides to get to the same destination: Big-league manager.  —  The Blue Jays offered Farrell a contract Friday to replace outgoing manager Cito Gaston.

Ryan Howard, A-Rod and Carlos Beltran  —  The Phillies and Yankees were each eliminated from the post season this past weekend, each game ending with a called strike-three looking, bats on shoulders, and breaking balls breaking. … ~ Mike Vaccaro, New York Post

Damaso Marte out until all-star break  —  In a shocking upset, a player has arrived on locker clean-out day.  —  That player was one of the least likely to be here: Left-handed reliever Damaso Marte who just walked in with his left arm in a sling.  I have to assume that means he had the surgery …

The Myth of the Small-Market Series  —  Even when the current World Series match-up of Giants versus Rangers was just a possibility, I began to hear chatter to the effect of “Bud Selig and Fox are going to hate having two small-market clubs in the World Series.”

Daughter of former Mets coach Eddie Yost suing team after security guard's radio falls on her  —  One-time Mets coach Eddie Yost's daughter is suing the team after she got plunked by a security guard's radio that fell from from an upper deck.  —  Alexis Yost Fougere, 45 …

Ten things I didn't know about managers in the postseason  —  Well, it's the postseason (obviously).  That can mean only one thing: time to come out with postseason-related columns.  Let's have a postseason one about managers.  This is, after all, a subject near to my heart given that I wrote …

(2 of 2)  —  Harold Pointer told The Tennessean on Friday that Britt punched him in the face during the fight, causing an injury that needed four stitches.  Pointer's attorney, William Stover, said Metro police interviewed his client over the weekend.  —  “The police are going to talk …