What Season Is This Again?

You know what tonight is?

It's Major League Baseball's version of a green-white-checkered finish. Weather permitting, of course.

The last three and a half innings of Game Five of the 2008 World Series are scheduled to begin at 8:30pm tonight on Fox. Fox Sports Florida will present live pregame coverage at 7:30pm -- that's right, an hour of pregame for what will end up being 90 minutes of baseball. You can't get TV like that just anywhere. Weather permitting.

The Rays, as I have written a thousand times already, are the best story in baseball and probably the best sports story of our lifetime, but they're killing me right now. The extended postseason has seriously cut into my college football time as well as my NBA prep. I took part in a fantasy basketball draft on Monday night while at my office watching the beginning of Game Five...I've never been so unprepared. I think I may have drafted both Lopez twins, but I can't be sure. It's all a blur right now.

This is usually my favorite time of year: the beginning of the NBA season, coupled with some smackdown weekends in college football (Florida-Georgia, anyone?). But at the moment, I'm just wiped.

So anyway: if and when the World Series ever starts again, look for live pregame and postgame coverage on Fox Sports Florida. This Saturday, I'll be in Jacksonville with Brady Ackerman for a live one-hour pregame show on the field before the Game That We're Not Allowed To Call The Cocktail Party Anymore. And next week, Lord willing, I'll be spending three days at an undisclosed location, preferably with spa treatments and fruity drinks with umbrellas.

Weather permitting.