A quick post, hope you don’t mind, but some thoughts:

  • Mark Teixeira started the year in an awful-beyond-awful slump, remember?  Well, his since-June has been so good that his average is now higher than Derek Jeter.  As one tweeter put it, I’m not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.  (Really, it’s both–good for Teixeira, bad for Jeter).
  • Kerry Wood likes to toy with our emotions…I’m a little scared to look at the strand rate. (For the month of August it was 100%).
  • I don’t want to contemplate life without Mariano.  I really don’t.
  • It always feels like there’s a ton of season left to play until they bring back the Magic Number countdown.  It’s kind of crazy to think that the Yanks’ magic number is 22, and yet the Rays are still right there, with them.  Talk about a race…
  • It’s amazing what a really good signing Marcus Thames remains as long as he stays far away from the field.

I’m headed down to Trenton tomorrow to see new uber-pitching prospect Manny Banuelos, who, despite having an appendectomy this year, has still emerged as a possible top 100 candidate.  Very intriguing, indeed.