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The Nuttings have dropped their slots bid for Seven Springs at the request of Major League Baseball. For some reason, some thought that the Nuttings would sell the Pirates rather than drop their bid for the slots. This is obviously not the case.

Pirates.com has a Q&A with Dave Littlefield up. It's mostly worthless, but Charlie takes a deeper look. I'm personally more intrigued by Freddy Sanchez replacing Jose Castillo on the homepage.

Speaking of Charlie, he recently did some thinking outside the box with a suggestion for Dave Littlefield.

Meanwhile, Bones at HW grades the only part of the Pirates' front office that did any work this year.

And as you probably know, the Cards are only one game from making this the most manager-centric World Series in years. In other NLCS links, Jeff Passan writes about Albert Pujols (though I'm more interested in the lead-in on the Yahoo! MLB page that refers to Pujols as "mercurial"), Cards fans can taste victory, and Mets fans aren't quite ready to give up hope yet (though I might if John Maine and Steve Trachsel were my team's only remaining hope).