What the hell?

Nats down 5 to 1 with 2 outs in th 9th. Fairly normal for them except for one small thing. They came back for the win.

Wow.

And in other news, the temperatures in Hades are reported to be plummeting...

I booked a trip to see Erica and Susan joined Facebook. I'm pretty sure Hades already froze over. But I do see some pigs outside my 2nd story window...

There are some who call him . . . . . . . . Tim.

Took the kids to their first Giants game yesterday. Twelve K's from Lincecum, a little torture from Brian Wilson and some Little League style fielding by Pablo Sandoval made for a pretty good first outing.

Continuing the theme.... WTF?

It's late June and the Nats are sitting right at .500 having won 11 of the last 12. This can't be right.

Oh wait, here it comes.....

After Thursday's win over the M's, Jim Riggleman walked away as Nats' manager

Ahhh, that's more like it.

He just respected the city too much to stay on while he couldn't consistently deliver the type of baseball that fans have come to expect.

Sh*tty.

This is a chart of the AL West teams and their standing in relation to .500 over the course of the season. I'd like to thank the Mariners for suddenly and unexpectedly making me feel better about the A's.

The Mariners will get interesting when, in a few days, a bored Ichiro will begin his quest to close out the season by breaking DiMaggio's hitting streak.

It's late July, the Nats are comfortably below .500, dead last in the NL-East and have lost their last three in a row.


All is right with the world.

It looks like the upside of the McCourt divorce is that the Dodgers will at least finish the season with the stars in place and perhaps make it through one more. Between not having the cash around to pay for decent replacements if they do trade away big talent, and the realization that getting rid of Kemp or Ethier or Kershaw would destroy the scrap of good will Dodgers fans have left, I think everyone involved realizes leaving things the eff alone is the best choice right now.