I need a title

Wow, the blog is so fancypants now. If you imaginary readers only knew the great options we have now you'd be amazed.

• It used to be that you had to know html to do bullets
• or change text color
• or align center
• or right
• or bold and italics

• or block quote, whatever the hell that means.

Anyway, here I am blogging. Why am I blogging you ask? Well, there's been no blog for a month, Nick is on his honeymoon, Derek is helping his girlfriend move to North Carolina, and I have serious problems focusing at work. When I was at Nick's wedding on Saturday, I met his friend and "best man," Justin. Justin commented about how I'm a huge geek. I know, you're thinking that I must get that all the time and it's not very comment worthy. The reason it stuck with me though is that Justin came to that conclusion by seeing "that website" that we made, aka this blog. Yes, that's correct. We officially have 2 verified people who have read the blog (still out there Brian?). So proud.

So I should probably try and give some baseball related content. Honestly I don't have a great sense of what's going on in baseball this year. I've been really busy and focused on other things, which I suppose is both good and bad. What I do know comes from my daily checks on my 4 fantasy teams and the standings in the morning paper. I will now comment on both.

As for the standings, there are some things that are very surprising to me having not really been paying attention. I would be grateful if someone explain to me a few things.

1. Why are the Red Sox 10 games back? This was supposed to be the year when the Yankees and Sox were so head and shoulders above the rest of the league that the wild card was pointless. Discuss.
2. How the hell did the Rangers suddenly pull it all together. I know they have a young and talented offensive core, but that's been true for years. Did their pitching staff suddenly discover voodoo? I see they are slipping now and I say it's about time.
3. Similarly, how are the Cardinals the best team in the league? I know they have this great core of stars in Pujols, Rolen, Edmonds, and Renteria. Last I checked you needed more than that to win.
4. The Braves are doing it again. I don't know if this is more a story about Philly and the way they waste talent or Atlanta and the way they somehow succeed despite losing talent every freakin year.

Someone please do me a favor and explain. My attention span is about used up, so maybe I'll talk about the fantasy season the next time I decide to blog.

PS - Where are your comments on the trade deadline deals?