Need a changeup

Well, it's baseballs-to-the-wall time now. Could the 'birds find some karma in the 'stros beards? Page 2's Eric Neel thinks so:

"Now, as for the Astros playoff beards, I'm glad you brought these
up: Is it me, or are these guys actually grooming their playoff beards? Take a
look at Lance Berkman's chin line; it's suspiciously clean, isn't it? If I'm
right, this is very, very bad form. This is George Michael territory. The
baseball gods will punish this behavior. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow,
but soon and for the rest of their lives."

Also check out P-D's Jeff Gordon, doing some google work on homeplate umpire Phil Cuzzi's history of bad umpiring and ridiculous ejections.