The Alternative Factor

The Ms have the third best record in all of baseball — better than any team in the National League, and behind only the Red Sox and Angels in the AL. How about that?

At the moment they're losing to Minnesota, 0-8 in the 5th, so it looks like their 5-game winning streak won't last the day. But the real news is that in August, Ibanez's offensive numbers have tripled, and Jeff Weaver (pictured) hasn't lost a game.

After the nightmare that was August 2006, it would seem this club is balancing the scales at last.

And in other News of the Highly Improbable, the Cubs and Brewers are fighting for domination of the NL Central while the Cards and Astros are just trying to claw their way past the .500 mark. And in the AL Central, the Royals actually have a chance to climb out of the cellar at the expense of the White Sox. The 2005 World Champions? Yes, those White Sox.

The polarity of the universe has shifted. But what of Lazarus? What of Lazarus?

My life in one photo

If you include the woman behind the camera, then it's all here: