The Yanks, with Pettitte and Burnett, have lost their last two games (at home vs. the Orioles) by a combined score of 17-7. Yanks starting to smell that fall air? Ooh, I have another possible excuse for Yankee fans to use later--"we were just so amazingly good that we got too far ahead, so we weren't ready for the ALDS. So it was only our awesomeness that cost us."

So we can make it 7.5 with a win tonight, and then if everything goes exactly perfect tomorrow, we can be 6 back. Last time we were 7.5 back with three games played in one day, we fell to 9 back. This time we gotta get the 1.5 games going the other way. But we have to win tonight first. We can win the World Series from the wild card spot, yes, but might as well keep rooting for the division until there's absolutely no chance left. But the key is, the Yanks aren't as set up for the playoffs as everyone's assuming. Not saying they can't sweep right through, but there's also a chance they win their CC games and no others and exit in the first round. I'm psyched for an anti-Yankee rooting October. If they don't blow this division lead AND fall behind another team, too.

So I turned on the Nebraska game on the Internet (it's free to hear the radio call), and one of the first things I heard was a commercial: "You're probably thinking about your crop production...." Kind of reminded me of when I first got out there for college and I saw all these Tornado Shelter signs and thought they were fliers for a band called Tornado Shelter.