"Not much bothered Justin Verlander in the first round of the playoffs, not the Yankees, just maybe the rain ... and the giant orange "Conan" blimp TBS had flying overhead.

"It's a night game. This thing looks like the sun," Verlander, above, told Conan O'Brien on his TBS talk show Wednesday night. He was there to promote the MLB 2K12 video game.

"It's huge," Verlander continued. "I had to stare at it the whole game. If I'm not pitching, we sit in the dugout and look around and I'm not doing much. When I look up, I envision your face on the side of the blimp. It was haunting me in the whole series." "