The Phils-Brews NLDS has changed venues - we've arrived in Milwaukee, where Miller Park is closing... literally, it's closing.

The convertible ballpark was open for batting practice... and this being Wisconsin in October, it's a tad cool. So cool, that one hitter was witnessing shaking his hands after taking a cut in the batting cage.

But the roof will be shut tomorrow, and again Sunday (if necessary). I'm guessing we won't need to be here on Sunday. Not just because the Phils are a determined team with a veteran pitcher, but because when we were here earlier this year, it was the shortest trip of the season - a 36-hour, two-game stay that began with night game and ended with an afternoon affair the next day.

So I'm taking that as a sign Milwaukee doesn't like us Philly folk.


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News of the day: Jamie Moyer prepares for his third clincher in 13 months.

The 45-year-old Phils lefty clinched each of the Phils division-title winning games in September. Now it's October, and the Phils can clinch the NLDS and move into the NLCS with a victory Saturday.

Moyer, the oldest player in baseball, has never played in the World Series in his two-plus decades in the game. Is he thinking of making it to that stage? Heck no.

"The World Series would be great to get to. I would enjoy it and I think every one of my teammates would as well," Moyer said. "But if we lose focus and start thinking about the World Series when we're not even out of the first series here, it can make things very difficult."

There's a reason for Moyer's success, people - he's a smart man.

More Moyer in your Saturday Daily Times...

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It looks like we might get those In-and-Out burgers after all.... the Dodgers have taken a commanding 2-0 series lead over the Cubs (I'm writing this in the event that you, like me, have been in a Phillies-only tunnel vision and haven't seen an inning of the other NL series).

While the Dodgers are the hot team, you'd surely like your chances if you're the Phils matching up against the Dodgers. With all due respect to Derek Lowe, there is no Rich Harden or Carlos Zambrano in that rotation (AKA a strikeout pitcher who can shut down the Phils offense in any given game).


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And now for a music interlude...

While driving in from Chicago (where I flew in from Philly), I tuned into a Milwaukee radio station that was playing a Bob Marley tune. After the song was over, the dee-jay made the comment that he was surprised that was in the rotation, since he believed Marley music was more for the summer season.

Perhaps he should shelve Marley for another reason - it's the walk-up music Thursday night's big bat/Brewer killer Shane Victorino uses at the Bank.

Inside Miller Park kudos to the guy piping in the music, as Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" just played. That's a lot better than hearing Coldplay whining three times a day at the Bank.

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Back to baseball --- if there is a Game 4 on Sunday, it will be the first game of the day, at 1 p.m. (EST).

Which means it will be at the same time as the game featuring the football team in town, I believe.