Just like that, the all-too-quick Syracuse Chiefs season is just about over, and the sluggers will surely go down swinging with a trio of hometown series against various rivals at Alliance Bank Stadium, 1 Tex Simone Drive, behind the Regional Market. (Chiefs chief operating officer and executive vice president Tex Simone, who turned 82 on Aug. 21, is pictured at top left.) The Salt City’s boys of summer take on the Buffalo Bisons during 7 p.m. contests on Thursday, Aug. 26, and Friday, Aug. 27, then will proceed to clobber the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs on Saturday, Aug. 28, for a 5 p.m. doubleheader, and Sunday, Aug. 29, 5 p.m. The final innings with the Rochester Red Wings will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 1, and Thursday, Sept. 2, 7 p.m. Admissions run the gamut from $11 for adults and $8 for ages 12 and younger on the lower level, while general admission is $8 for adults, $4 for ages 12 and younger. Don’t forget the $4 parking fee. And don’t forget that springtime phenom Stephen Strasburg, either. For details, call 474-7833. MICHAEL DAVIS PHOTOS

Collectors will be in seventh heaven at this weekend’s 39th annual Madison-Bouckville Outdoor Antiques Show, located on 90 acres of farmland on Route 20 in Bouckville, midway between Syracuse and Utica. Classy bric-a-brac will be everywhere, including furniture, toys, paintings, china, books, quilts, clocks, dolls and much more. On Saturday, Aug. 21, show hours will be 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.; on Sunday, Aug. 22, check it out from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $7 for one day, $8 for a weekend pass, with children under 12 admitted free. Early-bird tickets, good for the entire weekend, go on sale Friday, Aug. 20, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the show’s Route 20 entrance. The cost is $40 for one person, $75 for two. Parking is free. For information, call 824-2462.

There’s more of a chance that Larry King will get hitched again before Pink Floyd ever embarks on a tour, which pretty much leaves tribute band The Machine to sonically soothe the Floyd-starved masses. With exacting replications of Pink Floyd’s progressive rock catalog, including the monumental Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, the latter celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Floyd tour this year, The Machine is surely the next best thing to being there. The mystical music runs from 5 to 11 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 21, at Paper Mill Island’s Budweiser Amphitheater, 136 Spensieri Ave., Baldwinsville, as part of the summertime Island Fest series. Lost Marbles will open the show. Admission is $10 in advance, $12 at the gate. For information, call 635-3521.

It’s a little different when artistic or historical institutions present a movie for various cultural reasons. The Everson Museum of Art, 401 Harrison St., will screen its annual outdoors science-fiction flick on Thursday, Aug. 19, 8:30 p.m., at the Community Plaza, and the movie’s still a doozy. Director Don Siegel’s taut 1956 thriller Invasion of the Body Snatchers merges paranoia and excitement in its tale of alien pods taking over a small California town, which features sweaty performances from (pictured, above left, clockwise from left) Dana Wynter, Carolyn Jones, Kevin McCarthy and King Donovan. Admission is free; for details, call 474-6064.

Rome’s landmark Fort Stanwix continues its 75th birthday celebration as a national monument with a screening of The Farmer Takes a Wife on Sunday, Aug. 22, 3 p.m., at the nearby Capitol Theatre, 220 W. Dominick St., Rome. Henry Fonda makes his screen debut in this 1935 romantic comedy, which also stars Charles Bickford and Janet Gaynor (pictured, above right, center) in a recreation of 19th-century life on the Erie Canal. Also on the 35mm program: the 1935 Laurel and Hardy short Tit for Tat plus a newsreel and cartoon. The Capitol rolls back to 1935-era prices for the occasion: 35 cents for adults, and 15 cents for children. For information, call 337-6453.