World Serious Wangdoodles

Today's links aren't going to hold all the nasty e-mail messages and Facebook letters and tweets and comments against the good people of the Bay Area. It's well known, at least in the medical literature, that vitriol and lousy analysis are two of the emergent symptoms of World Series fever. Eat a couple of Amici's pizzas and call us in November ...

• It's true: The Platoon Advantage's World Series podcast -- featuring two more SweetSpotters, plus Larry the Granillo -- is your best and most complete.
• But wait, there's even more from the Granillo, who's composed classic poems about both World Series teams. Here are the Rangers (and you'll find a link to the Giants in there).
• Ah, satire. I grok.
• More brilliant photos from the archives of LIFE, this time from the 1955 World Series (including an electrifying shot of Jackie Robinson stealing home.
• No images yet, but it sounds like the Nationals' new uniforms will be better than the old ones (and the old ones really weren't bad).
• Crashburn Alley's post about Chase Utley would be spot-on even without the video clip ... but you can't go wrong, including a clip from Sunny (and if you liked that one, here's Bill's follow-up post.
• CC Sabathia's had a bum knee, and is having surgery this week.