Today's Lineup – World Series Edition

…or nine stories from around the Majors you may have missed today.

Folks in San Francisco may read this article and start encouraging Jeremy Affeldt to spend more alone time with his wife.

Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News leads his World Series Game 1 story with this sentence: "In case Yankees fans forgot, this is what a power-hitting third baseman looks like." Dagger!

Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press – you know that guy – writes about the Giants' big inning that toppled the Tigers.

MLB will honor surviving World War II ballplayers tonight before Game 2. Great story, that's why it's in the clean-up spot on this lineup!

The Sporting News writer Anthony Witrado says the Giants should have added the Melk Man to their World Series roster.

This Associated Press article breaks down the hairiness of the World Series.

Detroit businesses are readying for World Series games at Comerica Park.

Among notes and "flukes" from the San Francisco Chronicle: Barry Zito is only the fourth pitcher to get a hit of Justin Verlander. Well, ok, but Verlander pitches mostly to American League teams, which, you know, has the designated hitter rule. Just sayin'.

Huffington Post has a collection of World Series quotes for ya.