Frank Caliendo Must Have Naked Pictures Of Somebody Important

Seriously. That's the only explanation.

I write this, of course, while watching the American League Championship Series on TBS, which is promoting Caliendo's new television show with a relentlessness that is equal parts impressive and repulsive. I have no plans to watch it, ever, but you gotta admire the tenacity.

I do so while sitting in my office at roughly 10:15 in the evening on a Tuesday night. This is my fate, until The Freaking Rays lose, which I'm starting to think may not happen until November. Seriously. At the moment, they're destroying the Red Sox for the second straight night, and unless I'm about to witness the greatest comeback in baseball history, Tampa Bay will go to bed with a 3-1 series lead in the ALCS.

(Hey! Another 'Frank TV' promo! What're the odds?)

Man, have you ever seen fans stream out of Fenway Park like that? Our man Todd Kalas opined during our pregame show that it was a 'corporate crowd,' owing to the unwashed masses' remote chances of landing Red Sox playoff tickets. Buncha MLB sponsors and Red Sox advertisers, that's the theory. I like it, and I'm going with it.

These pregame and postgame shows on Fox Sports Florida (have you noticed the new graphics and new look for the network? No? Oh.) have pretty much eaten up my calendar for the last two weeks, thereby preventing me from spending proper time on college football, the NBA, or anything else. I have got to carve out some time.

But here's a few quick hits:

--Raise your hand if you saw Florida's 51-point outburst against LSU coming. Okay, all of you with your hands raised? You're lying.

I was on the field for the first quarter of that game in Gainesville, and the noise level at the Swamp was the most intense I've ever heard it. One interesting note: much like Sun Sports with the Gators and Seminoles, LSU football is broadcast on replay by a regional sports network that serves Louisiana. Prior to the game, as the fans were getting fully amped, the LSU network's TV director made a comment to one of our Sun Sports crew members that he "didn't feel very good about this one." And this was before the game, when LSU was still the 3rd-ranked team in the country. Wonder what he knew.

--The Miami-UCF game accomplished two things: one, it set the concept of "offense" back about twenty years. And two, it confirmed that UCF is officially in trouble.

--The one team in Florida that wanted an off-week the least? Florida State. As sharp as that offense looked against Miami back on October 4th, you know that FSU wanted to keep going.

(It's now 13-2, Rays. Willy Aybar has 5 RBI, and Carl Crawford has 5 hits. This is becoming embarrassing.)

--Oh, yeah, and if the drumbeats for Randy Shannon's head really do continue to grow louder, as my friends in South Florida tell me, here's me starting a rumor: Mario Cristobal. Arguably just as competent a recruiter as Shannon, and his deep connection to The U will probably convince him to accept whatever lowball offer Miami makes. And it will be low, mind you. Which is part of the problem. However, I am not calling for Shannon's head, because I think he can turn it around down there if given the time.

Gotta get down to the studio soon...The Freaking Rays and the postgame coverage awaits.

(13-3. Pedroia drove in a run. Sonnanstine finally out of the game. I smell a comeback! Meh.)