Odds & Ends

Dan:

• Listening to Cedric "I Am A Crazy Person" Maxwell on the radio and Tommy "Super-Homer" Heinsen on TV during Celtics games has really, really -- REALLY-- made me appreciate the quality of the Red Sox broadcasters.
• You have to like how the season has gone so far. The Sox are at the top of the American League, and you just have that feeling that they haven't even started playing to their full abilities yet.
• The way things stand right now, it's hard to see where the American League Wildcard will come from this season. My suspicions about the Yankees pitching staff is so far proving mostly true, although their ability to go out and get an arm or two mid-season may give them an advantage. The AL Central has so far been mediocre top to bottom. In fact, it seems the entire American League (outside of the Angels and Sox) are treading .500. And don't talk to me about the Athletics; there's no way they are this good. In fact, if they keep up this success it could prove trouble for Billy Beane who no doubt knows this team isn't a real contender and wants to justify dealing some players mid-season to boost his stock of young talent.
• For fans of The Office: If you want a laugh, check out Dwight's chart from the May 1 show, now posted online at http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/downloads/dunder_mifflin_org_chart.pdf.
• I recently said the Marlins were for real. But I'm not sure I really believed it. They sure are making me look smart.
• Meanwhile, the Cardinals are making me look really stupid. They just can not be this good.
• Lost really is that good of a show.

• You have to feel for the Milwaukee Brewers. Despite what many Cubs fans have told me, the Brewers really did have a great chance to win that division this year. But their pitching is decimated with injuries, and it looks like they may plummet into mediocrity this season. If that's the case: Go Cards . . . or anyone but the Cubs.

• Travis Hafner is single-handedly screwing me out of a fantasy baseball championship. As if I needed any more reason to hate the Indians (see my previous post).