Sports this 'n' that

 The Houston Astros won't be in the World Series this year.

In-state rival Texas saw to that Monday, pummeling the Astros, 11-4, taking the ALCS, 4 games to 3, in a series where the road team won every game.

In the aftermath, Houston manager Dusty Baker dropped hints he might step down as Astros manager. One would've thought he'd have done that after Houston won the Series last year.

But, Astros fans have another reason why their beloved team lost.

Senator Raphael "Ted" Cruz, otherwise known here as Timex Cruz.

Photo courtesy Fort Worth Star-Telegram via Yahoo!.

Cruz, a long time Astros fan, tried to defend himself on social media, noting that he was in attendance at last year's World Series when Houston defeated Philadelphia. Chalk it up, then, not so much to the Rangers being a hungrier team, which is in fact true, but to the antipathy toward Cruz. Yeah, right.

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Meanwhile, as the Phillies and Arizona gear up for a game 7 of their own tonight, New York blabbermouth Chris "Mad Dog" Russo is claiming he'll retire if the Diamondbacks upset the Phillies. Russo made the claim on his Sirius-XM satellite radio show on Monday. We'll believe it if he doesn't turn up on either High Heat on MLB Network or First Take on ESPN tomorrow.

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The far right website National Insider is trying to claim that ABC yakker Jimmy Kimmel will no longer host the LA Bowl in December, replaced by USAA shill and Fox's newest studio analyst, Rob Gronkowski. I wouldn't trust National Insider, so even though Gronk has posted on social media, I'd rather get confirmation from a legit news source, like ESPN.

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For the 2nd time this season, there was a post-game incident in Tuscaloosa after an Alabama football game.

This time, after the Crimson Tide blew out Tennessee in the 2nd half, and after everyone had left, some inebriated idiot got on the field, and got pancaked by a security guard, five days after a similar incident in Philadelphia after a Phillies game. One more reason to call for cutting off beer sales at halftime.