How about a little bit of General Major League Baseball commentary, then? No, I am not going to go so far as my Journalistic Role Model Hunter S. Thompson and call for ELIMINATING THE PITCHER! or anything like that (more on Thompson's truly bizarre but nonetheless interesting ideas for baseball some other time)...

anyway, enough of that gibberish for now...

The Detroit Tigers saw their winning streak broken by the former Seattle Pilots (the Milwaukee Brewers) today. The Tigers and Chicago White Sox continue to win quite a bit more than they lose and are neck and neck in the race for the American League Central title. Chicago plays later tonight and can move to within a game of Detroit with a win over St. Louis. The Cardinals are not a bad team at all (currently in first place in the National League Central and with the second best record in the entire NL...nevertheless this did not stop the White Sox from laying a 20-6 (yes, 20 runs!) drubbing on the Cards yesterday.

Both West Divisions are looking mighty weak at this juncture in the 2006 campaign, with Oakland and Texas tied for first in the AL West despite being only five games over .500. In the NL West, first place San Diego is just four games over the break even mark. All five teams in the NL West are over .500, with just one and a half games separating first place San Diego from the last place logjam of Arizona, Colorado, and San Francisco.

Boston and the NY Yankees are in a close race in the AL East, with Toronto not too far behind in third place.

In the NL East, the NY Mets have the most comfortable lead of any division leader at this time, nine and a half games ahead of Philadelphia.

Finally, in the NL Central, the aforementioned St. Louis Cardinals currently have a five game lead over second place Cincinnati.

Still plenty of regular season to go, so who knows how it will all shake out in the end. Only time will tell and all that.