The Daily Numbers: 2:37, starting time for the first two games of the NLDS between the Phillies and Rockies at Citizens Bank Park.
9:37, time of Saturday night’s game in Denver.
6 week old kitty that was set on fire before being rescued on a Chester street over the weekend. The cat is recovering.
108 years old, St. John the Evangelist Church in Lansdowne, which will close its doors next Sunday after one final service.
26, age of man who apparently drowned after falling into Darby Creek in Folcroft Saturday night.
4 people killed when a car went out of control on I-95 in Philly early Sunday, slamming into a tractor-trailer.
240 million dollars, what Pa. hopes to rake in each year on taxes on table games that could be added to the state’s slots parlors.
20 million dollar fee to be paid by slots parlors for the right to add table games.
23,685,222 dollars in gaming revenue at Harrah’s Chester Casino & Racetrack in September. That’s down 3.29 percent from the same month in 2008.
2 adults and a child rescued by 2 Good Samaritans from their burning car on Route 141 in Newport, Del. The adults were charged with suspicion of driving under the influence and reckless endangering.
67, age of man in Delaware arrested for indecent exposure after police say he exposed himself to neighbors in an apartment complex.
350 pound bear that fatally mauled a 37-year-old woman who was keeping it as a pet in Monroe County, Pa.
6 cars recovered from the muck of the Schuylkill River by dive teams, but none of them belonged to the Chester County woman who has now been missing sine Aug. 23.
3 people wounded last Saturday when gunfire erupted on a Wilmington street.
2 Flyers fans who were stabbed by another group of Flyers fans when they returned from Saturday night’s game in North Jersey. They were accosted when their bus arrived back at a bowling alley on Roosevelt Boulevard.
8 U.S. soldiers killed in a firefight with Taliban forces in Afghanistan.
9.8 percent jobless rate in the U.S. Companies dumped another 263,000 jobs in September.
1 winning ticket, sold in Florida, for that $189 million Powerball jackpot Saturday night.
69, age of former WFIL “Boss Jock” Jim Nettleton, who died over the weekend.
2.49 a gallon, what we’re paying on average for gasoline in the 5-county Philly area.
93 wins and 69 losses for the Phillies in winning a 3rd straight NL East crown.
2 straight wins for the Flyers to kick off the season. Saturday night new goalie Ray Emery outdueled longtime Flyer killer Martin Brodeur of the Devils.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.How much do you think is going to get done in offices across the region Wednesday and Thursday afternoons during the first two games of the NLDS between the Phils and Rockies?
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I Don’t Get It: How exactly a human being can pour an accelerant on a cat and then light it on fire. It’s just not human. I really don’t get it.
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Today’s Upper: There is a little good animal news today. The Philadelphia Zoo is welcoming a new orangutan, born to 16-year-old Tua on Friday. It’s the first primate born in the zoo’s new Primate Preserve.
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Quote Box: “We’ll bring it up to them, just for the hell of it.”
- Phillies Manager Charlie Manuel, on memory of being swept by the Rockies in the NLDS in 2007.