so holliday a little overaggressive there. trying to break up the double play and turns out ironically creating a double play. >> joe: it was interesting because before the next pitch i wanted to meng they were playing -- mention they were playing all or nothing and putting a lot of pressure on the infielders because hale was getting a -- holliday was getting a big, big lead. >> jon: and maybe theriot could be made the throw. >> steve: i think what happens, he comes across the bag and holliday is right in his face and he loses sight of first base because hale is right in his line of sight and has he throws the ball, he throws down the line and derrek lee comes off, not able to make the tag. the call at first base by danley was safe, until overruled. >> joe: if you are the middle infielders, theriot, everyone knows you are supposed to throw at his head. and you are not necessarily throwing around him and make a wild throw to first base. you are supposed to force him to get down and i think if he would have thrown right at him,

then that should drift out to sea on friday and keep that sunny weather here f the holliday weekend. another beautiful day tomorrow. highs near 80 degrees. morales the same thing with a slow warming trend as we head to the weekend. thursday, just some clouds late in the day. right now, leon, the holliday weekend, partly to mostly sunny with highs in the mid 80's for saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday. pinch me. is this a dream? >> a great way to wrap up a summer. coming up, a two-wheeled effort to raise money for the alzheimer's mimers arers association. a look at the incredible journey, coming up. now you can save more every time that you shop, with tusands of items at prices that pop. now double the number of deals through the store, with your new card, you can't help but save more. it's specials each week on the things that you use, and real deal savings, now how can you lose? low prices every day in every aisle, top off the savings, so go ahead, smile. more and more reasons to fill up your cart, it's good for your wallet, your family, your heart. isn't it nice to know that you're

matt holliday throwing his helmet in disgust. here's why.too far away from the bag while attempting to break up the double play. interference. double play called. the game going into extra innings. in the 11th, tied at 3-3. not anymore. jake fox, just his second extra-base hit this month. the cubbies avoid the sweep, 6-3 the final. >>> for more on sports in the windy city log on to espnchicago.com. the bears win over the super bowl champs plus the cubs in st. louis. you might think this fella won a contest or something. no, apparently he's just high on life. >> plus this -- >> the ballgame is over and washington, in the system. are you kidding me? it's thrown and it is caught! >>> two weeks ago at the nhra's u.s. nationals, tony pedestrian regular on -- tony pedregon accused force of throwing the race to give his teammate robert hite a 10th and final position in the championship. those bitter words echoed for two weeks but today at the dragway it appeared that they had made up and it set the stage for some great racing. >> we're going to tal

matt holliday throwing his helmet in disgust. here's why.s too far away from the bag while attempting to break up the double play. interference. double play called. the game going into extra innings. in the 11th, tied at 3-3. not anymore. jake fox, just his second extra-base hit this month. the cubbies avoid the sweep, 6-3 the final. >>> for more on sports in the windy city log on to espnchicago.com. the bears win over the super bowl champs plus the cubs in st. louis. you might think this fella won a contest or something. no, apparently he's just high on life. >> plus this -- >> the ballgame is over and washington, in the system. are you kidding me? it's thrown and it is caught! - ( "super freak" by rick james playing ) - it's pretty amazing how one click of a mouse can make you move... groove, bust it, shake it, get down, - ♪ she's a super freak, super freak ♪ - get funky - ♪ she's super freaky - and let your freak flag fly. - ♪ ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh, oh, oh ♪ - ( laughs ) - visa debit is the safe, secure way to pay online. - ♪ super frea

you may see that with matt holliday. but playing with albert pujols and playing in st.that's a great place to play baseball.   . >> bob: they are going to t playoffs. by the way, they are playing their final series of the year against the cubs starting tonight. >> rob: remember, he has got a great dad. his dad recruited me to go to oklahoma state. tom holiday. i'm sure there would be a lot of discussions on would you rather be happy in st. louis where the living expenditures are nowhere near new york or this area, and probably be comfortable in that st. louis area, they are great fans there. not that much pressure on you to perform. >> oh, that's a good pitch by martin tailing away from the left-hander. and j.d. has his second strikeout. northrop grumman the systems powerhouse. >> rob: going to run away like he said, the two seem fastball, it just tails. it's not about velocity, it's about movement. i think you get strikeouts when you get ahead in the count and then you can kind of fi nation will the ball to do different things. 

regina holliday has now created a mural on connecticut avenue in northwest. it details her husband's three month battle against cancer and which she calls a sick health care system. >> patients have rights. you have to wait 21 days. >>holliday said she and her husband cannot afford health insurance or the tests that -- husband passed away in june. >>> 5:16. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. >> we begin with lisa baden. we were talking about how it is the first day of sepmber already. >> and chilly last night. i had to get up last night and get a blanket. we have the usual traffic flowing on the greenway, the toll road, route 7 betwn sterling and tysons. good on 66 between centreville and the beltway. a southbound direction between father hurley boulevard and at the beltway. things are good on 95. here is the beltway live, moving nicely in silver spring. >> thank you so much. let's look at we have. 47 in martinsburg. 60 in la plata. cool. 58 in fairfax. it is very refreshing. if you're heading out for school, you may want to put on a coat. 52

holliday improves to 16-6 against the yankees.y pettitte will not start wednesday because of a sore shoulder. >> this is what posada had to say afterwards: >> this from the home plate umpire: >> with more on the fisticuffs, the "baseball tonight" crew. >> carlson with a huge knot on the side of his head. carlson and posada both likely looking at suspensions. will give here say a little rest. posada, he was the one who should have said, i understand how this game is played. we hit two of your guys. aaron hill, your best player, gets hit in the back. i should expect something. carlson threw it behind him, kept it down, not anywhere around the head. i understand it's frustrating and very -- you think about the risk of injury by getting hit by a pitch. posada is upset but he has to have more sense than to act like he is throwing an elbow and then getting in a fight he is going to get suspended. also he had shoulder surgery last season. he injuries the shoulder again, the yankees' hopes do we dashed for the season. >> didn't look like

holliday improves to 16-6 against the yankees.y pettitte will not start wednesday because of a sore shoulder. >> this is what posada had to say afterwards: >> this from the home plate umpire: >> with more on the fisticuffs, the "baseball tonight" crew. >> carlson with a huge knot on the side of his head. carlson and posada both likely looking at suspensions. will give here say a little rest. posada, he was the one who should have said, i understand how this game is played. we hit two of your guys. aaron hill, your best player, gets hit in the back. i should expect something. carlson threw it behind him, kept it down, not anywhere around the head. i understand it's frustrating and very -- you think about the risk of injury by getting hit by a pitch. posada is upset but he has to have more sense than to act like he is throwing an elbow and then getting in a fight he is going to get suspended. also he had shoulder surgery last season. he injuries the shoulder again, the yankees' hopes do we dashed for the season. >> didn't look like

holliday improves to 16-6 against the yankees.y pettitte will not start wednesday because of a sore shoulder. >> this is what posada had to say afterwards: >> this from the home plate umpire: >> with more on the fisticuffs, the "baseball tonight" crew. >> carlson with a huge knot on the side of his head. carlson and posada both likely looking at suspensions. will give here say a little rest. posada, he was the one who should have said, i understand how this game is played. we hit two of your guys. aaron hill, your best player, gets hit in the back. i should expect something. carlson threw it behind him, kept it down, not anywhere around the head. i understand it's frustrating and very -- you think about the risk of injury by getting hit by a pitch. posada is upset but he has to have more sense than to act like he is throwing an elbow and then getting in a fight he is going to get suspended. also he had shoulder surgery last season. he injuries the shoulder again, the yankees' hopes do we dashed for the season. >> didn't look like

that's caterpillar's jim owens, dupont's chad holliday.ecome to you in the studio. >> thanks, beck. our address is squawk@cnbc.com. >>> when we come back, we go to the u.n. in new york where the president is getting ready to speak this morning at about 10:00 am eastern time. john harwood is there with a preview. "squawk box" will continue after this. >> who was the first female to occur on u.s. currency? the answer when cnbc's "squawk box" continues. aflac! is that different from health insurance? well yeah... ...aflac pays you cash to help with the bills that health insurance doesn't cover. really? well, if you're hurt and can't work, who's going to help pay for gas? ..the mortgage, all kinds of expenses? aflacc it's the protection you need to stay ahead of the game... exactly! aflac. we've got you under our wing. aflac, aflac, aflac... aflac, aflac, aflac >>> who was the first woman to appear on u.s. currency? the answer, martha washington, who appeared on the $1 silver certificate in 1886. >>> welcome back to "squawk." tonight is a cnbc

that will come in the form of holliday. in the third yibing, holliday grounds to third. but trips and falls. crosses, and after the game he said i'm all right. it's just a little bit swollen. he's tangled up there with a bruised knee. move to the fifth now. runner on third for albert pujols, crushing that thing. it's a two-run shot. his 36th of the year. st. louis up 4-0 in the 7th. the machine not done just yet. his 47th of the year. hit by the franchise record. his tenth multi home run game in a season. in the 7th now, adam wainwright coming off the 7 innings, five hits, no earned runs, that is a major league eighth win. the cardinals have now won 4 of 6. they can bank the machine. wainwright was asked, and he said i don't know how anybody else could be better than he is. ever. no offense to all those guys, but albert pujols is is really, really good. albert, your thoughts? >> i can't do it by myself, so, it's pretty special, you know but you can't think about numbers. i mean, you can look at those numbers, but i think our main goal was how are we playing in our divisi

matt holliday blasted a two-run homer in the ninth. oklahoma dropped from third to 13th. byu who beat the sooners jumped to ninth. florida remains the number one team in the nation. yesterday's quarterfinals no different. she won in straight sets. she will take on kim clijsters. murray was nursing a sore left wrist and it showed. selig, 35 winners, 10 of them aces. rafael nadal also advanced. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> an enduring hollywood heavyweight passes away. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, one of those wacky american traditions that has stood the test tf oime. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back on this wednesday morning. here's a look at your forecast. umbrella needed today from cleveland to cincinnati. it's not going to rain all day. maybe some showers here or there. if you want to stay drive just in days. miami, showers and storms around you this morning and the this afternoon. maybe some light drizzle and some rain jersey coastline, especially near the atlantic cit

i'm johnny holliday along with ray knight.rt for the ball club tonight and they needed that one. they get two straight in the win column. >> they did. macdougal a little scary there, but that fastball can be dominant. when it's sinking, they'll hit it on the ground. they did double play, game is over. a little nervous for a while. had it all the way, didn't we? >> in the bag. that's my boys. defining moment in this ballgame. you saw it. let's show it once again. 2-2 game in the sixth. willingham, walks nieves will get a hit. >> and then morse, mike morse pinch-hit hits a bullet to center field. his fourth pinch-hit as maybin trying tries to get this ball. gedz gets caught up against the wall. misses it. two runs score. put us ahead and we were able to hold on to that score and only scored one run when uggla hit the bomb in the ninth. >> you glue up in fort lauderdale. debbi will talk to mike in a couple minutes in our "nats xtra" post-game. there you seat numbers. big hitting game. only 10 hits the entire ballgame. nats 5,-0.

up getting the biggest contract of any free agent this off-season, including john lackey and matt hollidayris: wow. that is one to watch. espn baseball insider buster olney. buster, thanks. >> thanks, chris. chris: well, for more on the red sox series against the royals, log on to espnboston.com. john: speaking of a strong arm, matthew stafford, looks like the lions will stand by their man. he's our quarterback, jim schwartz said. we're pleased with him. he's going to be a very good quarterback in the league, and we're going to win with him. we are joined now by nfl inspider adam schefter. another quarterback situation in cleveland. the browns have scored just one offensive touchdown in two games. brady quinn, he's still their man. how long is that leash in cleveland? >> well, i think that people around the league know that the browns have one of the best f. not the best backup quarterback in the league in derek anderson, a quarterback who's probably better than some of the starters elsewhere around the league. so the browns have the luxury, if they're uncomfortable with brady quinn, of tu

the cardinals are 35-16 since matt holliday arrived in st. louis.the sweep of the cubs at 8:00 eastern. >>> welcome to the other studio, the football studio, if you will as prime time "sportscenter" continues. john saunders through the miracle of tv goes from here to here. that's tom jackson. we've been together for? >> 23 years. >> and welcome to those of you watching the ravens and charges and the bills and bucs. we also have chris mort -- chris mortensen and bill scheckter. let's get right to it. we knew this much -- the winner of the patriots at jets game would be the only team without a loss in the a.f.c. east. jets doing the talking, patriots being quiet. well, why not? we won eight in a row in the meadowlands. darrelle revis makes a big pick in the first quarter. patriots had all the yards in the first half but only led 9-3. mark sanchez to dustin keller. young quarterback really coming into his own. brady for joey galloway, it's broken up. the new york jets have beaten the new england patriots. as we said, at the meadowlands for the first ti

everything is as still as death this morning and has been since 3:00 this morning, a stunned holliday, a militiaman wrote in wonder. michelle ng ceased altogether, recorded samue richards, an atlanta businessman, not long after. rumors flew that the enemy was retreating and had deserted their camps around the city. that morning, gray coate scouts fought their way forward expecting shots to wring out at any incident until they scrambled into the emp union lines. finally, an ecstatic militiaman holiday, confirm the rumors, sherman is compelled to fall back for want of supplies for his army. the yanks are gone and they are not likely to return soon. baffled, stunned, delighted, atlanta streamed out of their shelters and walked and rode to the lines, thousands of tourists venture through the fields to inspect the camps and pick up souvenirs. holiday scoffed when he saw them riding in buddies with white linen coats on. where, he aske where they in their holes in the city? the fight apparently won, he began to dream of going home. i am coming home, and play with my wife and babies and sleep

here comes matt holliday and ryan ludwick. derosa, a little greedy, trying to take third base.nail him. cardinals take a 3-0 lead. top three, 5-1 cards. derosa with the look in his eye. look where humberto quintero sets it up. top six, 6-2, cards. chad paronto facing derosa. watch where he sets up and look where it's thrown. i think you know the rest. derosa goes deep. his 23rd. the cardinals win it 7-3. >>> a broken fingernail would not sideline brett favre. if it were me stan would be working alone. he injured his fingernail late in minnesota's win sunday at detroit. coach says favre will play this weekend against the 49ers. marion barber is ity for the carolina game. he had a quad injury suffered late in the giants lost. "iffy" is my word. coach wade phillips put it like this, we don't know exactly where he is, end quote. you're hoping the training room. mike bell said he hopes to play sunday against the bills. the saints' back says he has full range of motion in the knee he sprained sunday in philadelphia. coach sean payton said the injury is a lot less severe than the club

bank of america's board meets today to reportedly name charles holliday as a new director. the "wall street journal" says they'll also discuss options as ceo ken lewis is charged with civil fraud, new york attorney general has threatened to sue management over a lack of disclosure about the bank's merger with merrill lynch. the "new york times" reports that the house oversight committee has given b of a until noon today to divulge information on the merger including when it became aware of merrill's mounting losses. >>> in frankfort, b of a trading down 16 cents, about 1.3% at 11.80. >>> in a coalition of top u.s. companies and investors is calling for a radical overhaul of executive pay. the group formed by the conference board wants to eliminate practices so-called golden parachutes, tax refunds, and personal use of company jets. the report, which is backed by at&t, cisco, and hewlett-packard and others criticizes for not reforming pay structures before the financial crisis hit. they blame that failure for causing a loss of trust in u.s. companies. >>> the european commis

by the way, byron kerr for johnny holliday, it is a terps football saturday tomorrow.an uggla followed by cody ross and cameron maybin. bottom of the second. 17 pitches. 10 strikes for martin in the first inning. he throws a hard breaking ball to the corner. 2-1. dan uggla hitting only .242, but maybe the heaviest .242 in the league. fastball. he's late for it. 27 homers. 75 rbi's. so, uggla has a chance for another 30 home run season. he will be a free agent next year. there's some conversation about his availability going on around this league. not the best defensive second baseman. if you have the kind of ball club where you need some offensive damage from that position, not usually associated with that position -- >> rob: right, he hits like a third baseman or first baseman that you would want to hit with power. he doesn't plate greatest second base as you said. >> bob: we've already seen that tonight. >> rob: that's a bad choice ifeel on his part. take the sure out at first like you said. pitcher is coming up. you'd have two outs. j.d. martin at the plate. instead

here comes matt holliday and ryan ludwick. derosa, a little greedy, trying to take third base.e, 5-1 cards. derosa with the look in his eye. look where humberto quintero sets it up. top six, 6-2, cards. chad paronto facing derosa. watch where he sets up and look where it's thrown. i think you know the rest. derosa goes deep. his 23rd. the cardinals win it 7-3. >>> a broken fingernail would not sideline brett favre. if it were me stan would be working alone. he injured his fingernail late in minnesota's win sunday at detroit. coach says favre will play this weekend against the 49ers. marion barber is ity for the carolina game. he had a quad injury suffered late in the giants lost. "iffy" is my word. coach wade phillips put it like this, we don't know exactly where he is, end quote. you're hoping the training room. mike bell said he hopes to play sunday against the bills. the saints' back says he has full range of motion in the knee he sprained sunday in philadelphia. coach sean payton said the injury is a lot less severe than the club ants pitted. -- anticipated. >>> monday nigh

returns right after this. çlçlçlçlçlçlçlçlçlçll >>> this week on espn sunday night baseball, it's matt hollidayujols the whole thing, sunday night baseball, presented by taco bell, as part of the hunt for october on espn and espn 360, 8:00 eastern time. here are the cubs and the cardinals, chris carpenter on the mound. a big start for him. he was roughed up in the previous outing in the n. -- and the n.l. cy young may be hanging in the balance as we head into the final week of the season. geovany soto, car penter in a jam there. 5-4-3. bases loaded for derrek lee in the fifth. chasing the first pitch from carpenter. out of trouble again is carpenter there. bottom five. facing ryan dempster, it's brendon ryan and stales is out there for the cubs and dempster has stales behind him. hasn't played a whole lot out there. >> not a good day for left fielders, are you noticing this? >> and oh, he doesn't! >> a bit of a microcosm of the cubs season here. he makes a nice athletic play to get to it and then tips it in. >> he knew, but he didn't know. ryan's third, up 1-0. and then ramirez, runners in scor

. >>> this week on espn sunday night baseball, it's matt holliday, albert pujols the whole thing, sundayht baseball, presented by taco bell, as part of the hunt for october on espn and espn 360, 8:00 eastern time. here are the cubs and the cardinals, chris carpenter on the mound. a big start for him. he was roughed up in the previous outing in the n. -- and the n.l. cy young may be hanging in the balance as we head into the final week of the season. geovany soto, car penter in a jam there. 5-4-3. bases loaded for derrek lee in the fifth. chasing the first pitch from carpenter. out of trouble again is carpenter there. bottom five. facing ryan dempster, it's brendon ryan and stales is out there for the cubs and dempster has stales behind him. hasn't played a whole lot out there. >> not a good day for left fielders, are you noticing this? >> and oh, he doesn't! >> a bit of a microcosm of the cubs season here. he makes a nice athletic play to get to it and then tips it in. >> he knew, but he didn't know. ryan's third, up 1-0. and then ramirez, runners in scoring position. 1-1, bottom nine, r

jordan jefferson to trindon holliday, 12 yards, touchdown. l.s.u. rolls 31-3.aseball, senior circuit, cubs-cardinals. st. louis looking to win for a 46th time at home. ryan dempster kind of helping the cause. bottom five, scoreless. brendan ryan deep fly ball to left. bobby scales, no! the ball bounces out of his glove and over the fence for a home run. it's the third jack for ryan. st. louis up 1-0. bottom nine, we're tied at 1-1 with runners on the corners. it is ryan, a grounder past a diving aramis ramirez. mark derose, come on home. cardinals with their 24th one-run win this season. as they bounce the cubs, 2-1. so with less than two weeks left in the regular season, magic numbers are shrinking mightily. none smaller than the cardinals' number, which is now down to four and counting. can cardinals could seal the deal early this week. phillies, magic number is nine, as is the dodgers. and the wild card-leading rockies, that magic number is 11. >> rex ryan has been known for dialing up some killer blitzes over the years. this week he was dialing up jets seas

next batter matt holliday bouncetor seconds. 4-6-3. holliday does a lot of things. speed not one.ow but not a burner. marlins win this one 5-2. st. louis is lost 5-6. florida does not go away in the wild card race. they've won ten of the last 14. josh johnson likes to sound like 6-0 in day games. with his win this afternoon, johnson wins the 22nd time in his last 27 decisions. that's good enough for a winning percentage 81%. best for the bigs in the pitchers with at least 20 decisions. >> what to watch for tonight when you're watching rockies-giants 10:15 eastern on espn. the best playoff race in baseball. san fran two and a half back of the rockies on the wild card. they've beaten colorado five straight times at at&t park. dell rah low is a meets matt cain. >> n.l. west leading dodgers gun informing the sweep of the pirates. etheir hit the walkoff homer tuesday night many bottom sixth, man on secondnn it's matt kemp. two-run shot. number 24 on the year. 11th home run in day games. bottom eight, ronnie belliard third home run in a dodger uniform. eighth of the year little bit of i

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. >> bob: with matt holliday they are 32 and 11. off speed and get as way.at 3rd base. so mock gotta head, he's -- got ahead, he's nibbling. >> they need to keep matt halladay. i think that team in the bronx will go after him. mock throws a hard breaking ball. you know bard is thinking i have to keep it in front of me. he does. happened to roll up his sleeve and over his back. he did a nice job keeping that from a 2 bag advance. >> bob: bard has to be alert here. victorino at 3rd base anything getting 15 feet away from home plate. because of shift where zimmerman is playing, if victorino wanted to he could take a 50-foot lead off 3rd base. there's no one to hold him. there's no reason for him not to be halfway down the line. >> rob: he is halfway down the line. >> bob: mock has to be tempted to run after him. up the middle. well-played. and the phillies are done in the top of the 1st inning, maxwell leads off next. these bags right here-- they fly free! i wouldn't pay to fly in here. why would these airlines charge for bags? why do you charge for bags? what'

for ray knight, i'm johnny holliday. thank you for joining us.ner, bob carpenter and rob dibble. enjoy nats baseball. ♪ ♪ (tucci) only at&t has the best selection of full keyboard phones. like the lg neon, just $29.99 after mail-in rebate. but it wasn't what i wanted to do, and i thought, i don't want to do this for the rest of my life i probably don't want to do it tomorrow. i told my dad, "i want to start a brewery." i told him, "i think you're crazy." i started sam adams with boston lager to make rich, flavorful beer. and he went and sold it one bottle at a time. no one had tried an american beer that had that kind of flavor. boston lager really was a groundswell. there's that saying, "do something you love "and you'll never work "a day in your life." i don't feel like i've worked for 24 years.

colorado did have matt holliday at that time to kind of rally around.arbon copy of cabrera's first at bat from the swing to the pitch to the throw. two outs. >> rob: how do you like me now? we are playing in, taking away the punt. taking away the short chop. keep making adam dunn lean that way though. keep stretching catch some of these balls. nice to have a six foot six first baseman. >> bob: it is. that is a lovely target. here's david eckstein. when you look at this roster eckstein i guess had kouzmanoff off of the position players the senior members here. and then adrian gonzales right behind them. so they need a guy like eckstein to stick around for another year or two. they resigned him next year already. he bounces out. gonzales throws him out. here comes adam dunn. adam has a base hit and so does ryan. it is time for the middle of the order to start taking big swings and making some noise. it's... no, not yet. it back that way. it's on. ( ding ) book now at southwest.com.  >> bob: top of the fourth inning here at beautiful petco park in sa

matt holliday, left center field. a three-run shot. his ninth home home run.ngs, four anned -- earned runs. >> in final preseason games the starters usually make a cameo. usual live the credits are filled with extras and soon to be castaways. but on thursday the eagles plan to give michael vick extended minutes. they will you him out of the wildcat in he first half, and vick will start the second half under center. >> you'll see him play faster this week than last week. it was matter of getting him acclimated into the speed of game, and this week he will gate few more reps. >> it's hard to gauge it on preseason games because you want to see so much, and it's just hard to incorporate it. i think it's been a job well done thus far, and i think he will be a big part of the offense. >> he's going to take some snaps. i didn't really put a number on it. he has been doing it all week and it looked fairly smooth. >> in last thursday's game against the jaguars, vick was in for six plays, five as quarterback. he was a perfect 4-4 on pass attemps. 3-3 on short passes. >>

i'm johnny holliday. enjoy your evening. we'll see you friday night at nationals park.ford taurus. sfx: ((sync beep)) please say a command. read message. highway 8 closed. update route. turn right on silver road. we speak car. we speak innovation. introducing the all-new taurus from ford. drive one. team. with all the negatives surrounding marshall, let us remind you of the positives. he's caught over 100 passes each of the last two seasons and was a pro bowler last year. the jets could use that kind of a playmaker. while they were 11th in the le agast yea with 22 receiving touchdowns and eighth in total catches, regular production up and down the field was one of the league's worst. in fact, only cincinnati had fewer yards per reception last year than did new york. >> he was much better than in his debut, but there's still work to do, the words of vikings' head coach brad childress following brett favre's performance against the texas yaps. former vikings' great fran tarkenton, who was very critical when the vikings signed favre, weighed in with his feelings on favre a

the holliday pick-up is the pick-up of the season.ldn't be talking about this, this month. so i remain with duncan and what' -- and people forget it was nobody when he came up for chris carpenter and on and on it goes for being a great pitching coach but this is a team very capable of winning the world series. >> it has one of the. greatest players ever in pujols. hands down. we've got a guy whose been around that long. hard to say whether this was his best team from here. i think he's got an excellent chance to end his career on a very memorable note. >> you look at what dave duncan has done. the asian of this staff is the kid who wear it is clothes are the last time we have -- by the time they got to boston, even john smoltz, who left, did everything in his last start for the red sox except leave yankee stadium with a coat over his head, they get a couple good starts out of him when they've got him on one side of the rubber to the other. this, to me, this year in baseball, the greatest free agent is not going to be a ballplayer. it'

the ob: swing and a miss and bergmann throws it by david you know, and they can talk about matt holliday get any pitching up here, they have got nothing next year either >> rob: see the pitch track northrop grummanice 3/4 delivery at this. you can have e of you waok the nants, top 10 all year on offense, but no good on defense. you got to shore up the defense. two years in a row, bad defense. i told you about the minnesota twins. the twins do not have the best pitching staff and now they just lost clifton morneau. they can't afford it. and they never spent money for it anyway. the only money they spent was to keep joe nathan in house and have the great closer there but other than that they don't spend a lot of money. but if you only make 66 or close to 70 errors for the entire season that's spectacular. that's the kind of stuff that ceepsz you in it this late in the year, four games behind the tigers in the central. you know the tigers paid a pretty penny for their team. >> bob: bergmann on a breaking ball strikes out beltran. he got ahead with the fastball. buries the hook. >> rob: and

>>> cards and brewers, trevor hoffman blown only two saves all year, make that three after matt hollidaythe ninth. cards beat the brewers in milwaukee. >>> college football, oklahoma dropped from third to 13th. byu jumps up to ninth. florida remains the number one team in the nation. >>> serena williams has been cruising through the u.s. open. yesterday she won in straight sets and will take on clkim clijsters in the semis. >> murray was nursing a sore left wrist and it showed. celic 35 winners and it showed. >>> he is arguably the greatest basketball player of all-time. this friday michael jordan will be inducted into the basketball hall of fame. he's chosen david thompson to give his induction speech. who is david thompson? the former all-american at north carolina state who led the wolfpack to the national title in 1974, and finally check this out, minor league game between the arkansas travelers and the springfield cardinals, travis coalby, shot deep to right center, two runners on base, both tried to score, one following the other but thanks to a perfect throw to the catcher, steven