Starting Tuesday at "The Bank" a probable World Series preview will play out for the baseball world to see. 

The Boston Red Sox will be in town for a three-game set that has many fans drooling at what will be. 

The series match ups go as follows. Beckett (6-2) v Lee (8-5), Lackey (5-6) v Worley (2-1) and the businesspersons' special Thursday at 1:05 puts John Lester (9-4) v (TBD).  This game would have been Roy Oswalt's turn in the rotation, but with his latest back flare up and comments implying his career might be over. 

Oswalt can be a bit "cranky" at times, but if you pitched for the Houston Astros, who, outside of the franchise's only Series appearance, was a lousy team with little shot to win a ring, you'd be cranky too. 

The Dude wants a ring, that's why when he was on the trading block last summer, he pushed real hard to be Fighting Phil. 

The SAWX, as Mike Wilbon from Pardon The Interruption (PTI), likes to call them, were dead and buried in April; Or where they? A 1-9 start, and the baseball world had the shovels and FTD called for funeral arrangements. All we needed were the MLB docs to call "time of death." Absurd, I thought and still do. 

If you're going to the game, you should get to see what the baseball world will be glued to come the last weeks of October.

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Earlier this week there was a Donovan McNabb sighting in media reports. Apparently, McNabb is bummed out that the NFL season is in jeopardy, saying something to the effect that he's ready to take on the NFL defenses. There are two problems with his claim:

1. The Redskins will be dump him a nano-second after a labor agreement is signed because his head coach doesn't want him. 

2. When trying to back up his proclamation he will "choke," or is that "puke"?

I'm guessing the National Hockey League and the folks at 5 Ponds Golf Club are hoping a strike comes to fruition for very different reasons. 

While were on the subject of the NHL, did you know that four of the last eight teams to make the Cup finals are part of the Original Six? (Detroit Red Wings twice). Hockey now has a "High Ceiling?" 

I'm willing to bet with the wheeling and dealing the Fly Boys did this week - yes they will now only use two goalies a game instead of three - parlayed with a Boston Bruins Stanley Cup win, is making the owners of The Bucks County Ice Sports Center a little happier. It's Hockeynomics ya know!

OK, can someone please tell me where the handball courts are? And doesn't anyone play stick ball here? You'll have to excuse my want to play the games I did as a kid in Brooklyn, N.Y. Play golf you say? I'd rather drive behind a PennDot truck with floggers for 20 miles. 

Has anyone watched Serena Williams at Wimbledon this week? Her serves are like a Bob Gibson fastball-NASTY! 

"Soccer Mom" & Daughter Alert!

The 2011 United States Woman’s World Cup Soccer Team is favorite to win its third trophy. Sources tell me if the American women do in fact win, the trophy will be auctioned off by Sotheby's in the United Kingdom with the proceeds going to China to put a dent in the national debt and making it a international coalition of sorts. We will all be indebted to the ladies for bailing us out. 

I've just filed a missing persons report- Philadelphia 76ers where are you? 

And that's is for This Edition of  Roll Call