Courtesy New York Post

(October 29, 2009) Game 1, from the top: Fox World Series pregame host Chris Rose last night was so locked into his hip-dude Fox Sports Net act he couldn't simply say, "home runs," he had to go with "base flies." Yeah, baby, like an audition for ESPN!

And was talk-trash White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen added to the pregame for substance or for his, er, style?

Joe Buck, first inning, set the scene: "It's chilly, but there's no rain." Why wouldn't it be chilly at 8:02 p.m. on Oct 28? Then it began to rain.

Good show and tell early from Fox's truck and Tim McCarver on Cliff Lee's "spiked curveball." And just before Chase Utley's second homer, on an 0-2 pitch, McCarver mentioned Utley's "lightning hands, even with two strikes."

Strong game for McCarver. Last night we got the one who asks us to think about things -- to consider the woulda, coulda and shoulda. Sometimes we get the one who tells us what to think.

Nothing unusual, but Utley's first homer, as described by John Sterling on radio -- he called it as if it were a lazy fly to right -- was nothing like the shot Utley hit, as seen on Fox. By the way, though we never would suggest that Sterling's a shill, he picked the Yankees in three.

Good replays and overall use of tape, all game. But good telecasts tend to show up when Fox stays off the crowd and sticks with the game. Go figure. Also, it might have been impolite to note all the empty expensive seats for the first World Series game in new Yankee Stadium.

On one hand, a 6-1 final that included a complete-game pitcher reasonably shouldn't have run 3:30. On the other, a World Series game between East Coast teams actually ended before midnight!

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