[commish]

Houston is going to have a tough series this weekend. Atlanta has been playing very good baseball for the last 2 months, the offense is red hot, they have a chip on thier shoulder of wanting to finish out the season at .500, and they would love nothing better than to end the season for the team that ended thier season last year.

John Smoltz has told Bobby Cox he wants the baseball Sunday and to not even think of removing him from the game unless his arm falls off.

[dfwgator]

I agree, Atlanta won't be the Royals. And Atlanta probably is looking for a measure of revenge for the 'Stros booting them out of the playoffs the past few seasons. It won't be easy, but we'll see.