Today at With Leather and across the sports-o-sphere has been a celebration of the “greatest night in baseball history”. If you aren’t up to speed, you can check out some of the amazing statistics or take a look at the emotional faces of men who both played in and watched the games.

The Tampa Bay Rays are going to the playoffs, and that works out well for The Dugout — that be-goggled gentleman in the photo is Kyle Farnsworth, relief pitcher and folk hero of the Official Chatroom For Major League Baseball. He pitched nearly a full inning against New York’s Scott Proctor, and if you’re a Dugout historian (and I know you are) you’ll know important that is to our epic, long-term storytelling.

Regardless, please enjoy today’s Dugout, which is technically the first in our semi-annual, semi-daily recapping of the MLB playoffs. (And drop us a comment, would you?)

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While most New York Jets fans were being talked off their figurative ledges, the team’s stars were out tearing up the clubs in New York City in the hours after their 24-19 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday. Quarterback Mark Sanchez and wide receiver Braylon Edwards showed up to the Juliet Supper Club around 3 am, where Edwards racked up a $2,500 tab, which included a $1,100 bottle of champagne. Meanwhile, I drank George Dickel and Tab.

But while Edwards was in the DJ booth, telling the crowd that the Jets will make it to the Super Bowl next year, Sanchez was wiping his boogers on more important matters:

A source said: “Mark sat with Braylon for a short while, but soon enough he was back at the bar flirting with the bartender, a gorgeous South American girl — busty with long, dark-reddish hair. They were doing shots together, and he kept whispering in her ear and holding her hand. He looked pretty enamored and was at the bar until closing time.” (Via Fox Sports)

Play on, playboy. Meanwhile, World Vision, a humanitarian organization that focuses on child poverty throughout the world, has secured two generous donations from the Jets and the Chicago Bears – their respective AFC and NFC Championship merchandise.

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