Here's a few sports stories to get you through the bleakness of the Rox/Sox World Series...

One way of figuring out what'll happen to Barry is to look at all the teams who might be interested in him. Process of elimination and all that. Barry's agent has said there are lots of teams interested in him, but as John Shea pointed out, that's probably not true. So where then?...

Local sportswriters are abandoning the A's bandwagon this season like it was, well, a sinking ship. In February, Ray Ratto predicted a 60-win season on ESPNews (later, he amended that to 65. Thanks, Ray). Then, Bruce Jenkins rhapsodized about intelligent baseball, threw up his hands and conceded the AL West. We can never tell what the hell Scott Ostler is talking about, but we're pretty sure this, which includes the season's first lazy connection......