There was a salesman from a small bat company in the clubhouse this morning, and in addition to propping up several of his company’s models against the edge of a table in the middle of the room, he also spread photos of about eight major-league clients along the top of the table. The last one on the far right: Matt Stairs, in full Phillies regalia. I happened to mention to the guy that it was Matt Stairs who basically ended the Dodgers’ season with that monstrous two-run homer off Jonathan Broxton in Game 4 of the NLCS last year — there was still a Game 5, but with the Dodgers having blown a two-run lead in the eighth inning and now trailing 3-1 in the Series, you basically knew it was over at that point. The sales guy claimed that his company’s bats were the hardest in the business. If you were there at Dodger Stadium that night, you might believe him. Stairs’ homer might have been the hardest-hit ball I saw all season last year, and one of the hardest I have EVER seen. As soon as the ball left his bat, the fellow scribe who was sitting next to me in the press box yelled, “JESUS!!!”