Can't believe I'm saying this

Like any good word smith would do, this is probably my fourth or fifth draft at this week’s column.
I wanted to talk about the Phillies, the Eagles and Columbia’s big game tomorrow night with Lancaster Catholic.
I already to talk about how tomorrow’s Section 3 football game with Lancaster Catholic will be "pride night" on the hill and how the Crimson Tide needs to dig deep, not hang their heads, play 48 minutes of quality football and they just might crush the Crusaders.
I have written that piece and posted on my blog at www.chronicleledgernewsgroup. com/tide talk.
Then I was already to write off the Eagles during the second half of their game with the 49’ers on Sunday and what happened, they made a few big plays, won the game and saw the division come back to them.
So that left the Phillies. I hope as you read this, the National League Championship series is over and the pinstripers are preparing for their first World Series in 15 years.
I was already to tell everyone about the mistakes Charlie Manuel has made during the series, then I realized he’s actually making Dodger manager Joe Torre look like a t-ball manager.
For the most part in this series, Manuel has been outstanding and as of Tuesday morning, he had his team with a 3-1 lead in the series.
With the exception of rolling Jamie Moyer out there on Sunday and perhaps leaving Chad Durbin in a tad too long Monday night, he’s done magic with his pitching staff.
Torre on the other hand has over managed with his staff.
He’s moved the batting order around to get the proper match-ups.
I wish he wouldn’t use So Taghuci that much. He didn’t play all year and now he’s the first pinch-hitter off the bench.
Matt Stairs and don’t take this the wrong way, looks like he should be playing slow-pitch softball at Janson’s, comes off the bench and hits a key homer Monday night. Wow.
I’m not completely a member of the Charlie Fan Club, but his work in this series needs to be noted.  I just hope that if there is a game seven, Jamie Moyer isn’t the starting pitcher.

Odds and ends...

o Nice touch in the opener having Harry Kalas and Larry Bowa give the line-ups.
I’ve had enough of Joe Buck and Tim McCarver.
o Thought the ball and strike umpires in this series haven’t been too good.
o Glad to see Andy Reid at least tried some rollouts of Donovan McNabb on Sunday at the goal line.
o Who is the favorite in the NFL? This might be one of the best years yet because teams I think are favorites aren’t.
o Food alert -- best hot dogs of the season were found Friday night at Annville-Cleona.
By the way, I thought the improvements made around A-C were nice, but it still looks like the same football field to me.