I’m not sure our games against Baltimore qualify as that much more difficult, especially with Roberts out, and the whole Palmeiro scandal…the team has played really poorly the last couple of months.

I’m still nervous about what seems to be the necessity of running the table against them, given the stakes…it’s hard to beat any team 8 in a row.

KC has actually been playing the Indians pretty tough, but any question of why they’ve lost 100 games gets quickly answered by a ninth inning like tonight (and the one they had against us when they blew a 4 run 9th inning lead).

But we need The Tribe to win to keep Baastin 1.5 back in the Wild Card — which we are no longer concerned about, right ???

Also, people don’t often think of the Yankees as scrappy and lovable, but you have to assign those adjectives to Crosby. I really get the sense he’s trying to maximize his talent no matter how limited, to help the team.

And that baserunning artistry from Jeter is the kind of thing that will continue to perpetuate the legend of Derek Jeter. I have no idea how he did on his SATs but the guy has all kinds of baseball smarts, don’t he?