What to watch for tonight in Game 2 of the World Series:---TIME CHANGEFans planning to see the first pitch will need to tune in earlier than expected. The start time was moved up an hour to 7:08 p.m. EDT because theres rain in the Cleveland forecast. Major League Baseball announced the shift Tuesday night midway through Game 1.Id rather do that than have the game start at 8, and then get caught in the latter part of the game with some rain. So I think its a good idea, Cubs manager Joe Maddon said.Indians manager Terry Francona was fine with the change, too.We can handle that, he said. I dont care what time they tell us to play. ... Im going to be here anyway by 10 (a.m.). So it doesnt really matter.PINKIE POWERAll eyes at Progressive Field are bound to be on Trevor Bauers right pinkie when he starts for Cleveland in Game 2 of the World Series. He sliced the finger earlier this month while fixing one of his many drones. Then in Game 3 of the AL Championship Series at Toronto, blood began dripping onto the ball, the mound and his uniform, and he lasted only 21 pitches.Bauer says hes set to face the Cubs. He threw a simulated game this week with gauze over the finger -- a no-no during actual action -- and there was no bleeding.Im going to go out there and execute to the best level of my ability, and its going to be what its going to be, he said.JUST OK JAKEJake Arrieta gets the ball for Chicago in Game 2 with a mostly unimpressive October resume. He dominated in his first postseason start, pitching a shutout against Pittsburgh in last years NL wild-card game. But hes 1-2 with a 5.82 ERA in four playoff starts since, including a 4.91 ERA in two starts this postseason.The 2015 Cy Young Award winner was solid this season but hasnt replicated last years success. Chicago limited Arrietas innings during the regular season hoping to keep him fresh for a late-October run, though, and the World Series would be the perfect time for a resurgence.MANAGING MILLERIndians reliever Andrew Miller threw two scoreless innings in Game 1, but also tossed 46 pitches -- his most since 2011, when he was a starter.So, will the AL Championship Series MVP get the ball in Game 2?You know, I dont know, Cleveland manager Terry Francona said after a 6-0 win over the Cubs in the opener. I just think that theres a lot that can happen tomorrow. One, we might not have the lead. Two, it might rain. Three, we could have a lead and he wont be available for as much.The Cubs got two hits and two walks off Miller.I liked our at-bats overall against Miller, Chicago manager Joe Maddon said. I liked the fact we got him up to 50 pitches, also. So there were a lot of positives with that. We struck out a lot, but Ill defend the fact that we had some good at-bats.DECISIONS, DECISIONSChicago whiffed 15 times in the Series opener and was shut out for the third time in six games. Will manager Joe Maddon juggle his lineup looking for offense?Chris Coghlan started Game 1 in right field over slumping Jason Heyward, who signed a $184 million contract to join the Cubs last offseason. Coghlan struck out in both his at-bats. With another right-hander pitching for Cleveland, will Heyward be on the bench again?STICKING WITH SCHWARBERCubs manager Joe Maddon said Kyle Schwarber will absolutely start at designated hitter again after the young slugger went 1 for 3 with a double off the right-field fence and a walk Tuesday in his first big league game since April 7. Schwarber, who also struck out twice, had been sidelined since having surgery to repair two torn ligaments in his left knee.I thought the bat speed looked good, Maddon said. You could see on the finish sometimes maybe the brace grabs him just a little bit. I kind of noticed that. Otherwise there was no kind of negative atmosphere surrounding his at-bats. I thought they were outstanding, actually.Schwarber is the franchise leader with five career postseason homers. All of them came when he was a rookie last year. Discount Nike Air Vapormax . The native of Mont-Tremblant, Que., captured a World Cup downhill event Saturday, his second this year and fifth career victory on the circuit. Black Friday Nike Air Vapormax . -- Catcher Brett Hayes has agreed to a $630,000, one-year contract with the Kansas City Royals, avoiding salary arbitration. https://www.fakevapormaxwholesale.com/ . To the surprise of many, it isnt the Wolverines but their in-state rivals the Michigan State Spartans. Nike Air Vapormax Sale .ca NFL Power Rankings, overtaking the Denver Broncos and remaining ahead of NFC competition San Francisco, Carolina and New Orleans. Cyber Monday Nike Air Vapormax . -- Cam Newton pranced into the end zone, placed his hands over his chest and did his familiar Superman pose. Through the shires of England it rolls…The Sky Sports Pod is a tricked-up fish-and-chip van-type affair from which commentary on the T20 Blast competition is dispensed, breathlessly, at pitch level (allowing, were supposed to believe, this bunch of recently retired professional cricketers to be publicly astonished by the speed of the game).Skys coverage of cricket has been nothing if not innovative, and time stops for no one. Leaning through the Pods serving hatch is the tasty menu of ex-pros now on the Sky roster, from the veteran Paul Allott, who last played in 1993, to the fresh-from-the-field Rob Key, until earlier this year captain of Kent.The Pod is casual, fun, on point for the Blast experience, and behind its faux-ramshackle charm lurks Skys ruthless modernity. A story in the Daily Mail last week said that there is soon to be a changing of the guard in the Test match studio too, claiming that Ian Botham and David Gower were no longer going to be the main men of the stations coverage as they have been for more than 20 years. (This was subsequently retracted, though.)Then there are absences that leave a heavy heart: recent times have taken Tony Greig, Richie Benaud and Tony Cozier from us. Theres a particular sadness that comes with the passing of voices from your cricketing childhood, the sense of a past receding forever.Benaud, in particular, was a link between the old world and the new, and the subject of a famous story that illustrates well the change that has now fully come. Channel Nine were among the first broadcasters to switch from two commentators to three for each half-hour stint. So incident-free was one session involving Benaud, and so keen were his partners to fill it, that the 30 minutes passed without Richie uttering a word.True or not (and it has the hint of the apocryphal about it), it showed the world view of someone who had been educated in the early language of television, when the viewer was assumed to be able to watch the pictures and see what was happening without being told. Benaud would enhance and complement when required, hence the genius of his pause-and-talk style: Dont even bother looking for that… its gone into the confectionery stall and out again doesnt contain the words Botham, Alderman, six, or anything else that immediately identifies it with the events it followed, and yet simply reading the words will transport anyone who remembers the moment.Benaud was that rarity - a man who was highly accomplished in two separate fields, as a player and a broadcaster. The other greats of my formative years werre clearly divided.ddddddddddddOn radio, John Arlott, Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Brian Johnston, Henry Blofeld, Cozier, Don Mosey and so on were broadcasters, and were there to describe. Around them were experts - Trevor Bailey, Fred Trueman - former players there to illuminate. On television, the distinction has always been less clear: Jim Laker was in situ for the BBC, along with Raymond Illingworth, Ted Dexter, Jack Bannister and more. Among them they created a kind of lingua franca, a paradigm for how the game was described, and by extension, how it was thought about - perhaps even how it existed in the minds of its followers.Almost every cricket broadcast now features three commentators, cast in various roles. The idea that some may sit silently, a la Benaud, if theres nothing to say, seems as quaint as returning to 1970s bats. In the full-on, muscular present day, cricket is endlessly happening, series piled on series, format on format, day upon day, and there is a wild clamour of voices keeping up.And just as the game has changed, so has the way its talked about. There are still the former pros who have an aptitude for the job. David Lloyd is utterly natural but steeped in the game. Mike Atherton, increasingly avuncular on the mic and a superlative correspondent for the Times, is a significant and important figure in interpreting this new era. Ian Ward has led a great leap forward in technical analysis, and Key and Mark Butcher have established a great rapport with both players and the camera. The quality of the coverage is incomparable to the 70s and 80s, when the single fixed camera presented every other over with a fine view of the batsmans backside.But what of the lingua franca? How will it frame the game for the generation who are now becoming cricket followers? They wont have Danny Morrison in their ear in the same way that Arlott was once in mine (mercifully so). Theyll think nothing of Nick Knight saying Is that a boundary… yes, it is… as they watch a ball rolling very obviously to the rope, because they would never have heard a simple, marvellous crisply uttered just as the ball breaks through the field.This blog isnt intended as a lament. We have gained so much from the advancement in coverage and in access to the world game. But there will always be a demand for a language that makes things dramatic or beautiful or poignant or funny. Thats the challenge to which the three in the box must rise. ' ' '