hotel hell

also happened to catch jim rome's 5-minute int'view with jim edmonds last hour. rome asked "what happened last october against the red sox," and edmonds said "we just came up flat"; rome followed, "how the hell does a team come up flat in the world series?" and edmonds hauled out the pathetic canard about the team hotel not being up to snuff. he also said (paraphrasing) that the cards' current theory is that boston's front office didn't think they'd be in the world series anyway and hence didn't reserve rooms for the visiting team until after all the prime lodgings were taken. . . . in other words, the stupid hotel is still a hot topic in the clubhouse. you'd think they might talk instead about rolen's 0-fer or edmonds' 1-fer . . . .

if you're a rome subscriber you can hear this on the net at rome's site.