Astra Zeneca has a lot of cojones printing a pink ribbon sticker, while they spend twice as much on marketing as they do on research. Yeah, we're working towards a cure-as long as it doesn't interfere with quarterly profits.

Indians 6, Boston 2. Loaded the bases with 0 out, then stranded them all. If you do that, it simply is not meant to be tonight.

Thinking about the woman in Fort Worth who killed her children-Motive? 4 children in a trailer, that's your motive.

Russ Ortiz is being paid American money to pitch baseball games? Seriously?

Was Urban Shocker not picking up his phone? Sheesh.

RIP, Marquise Hill. Another athlete gone too soon.

An inside the park homer from Kevin Youkilis? Only slightly more likely than an inside the park homer from, say, me.

"You can get what you want-or you can just get old."

Interesting program on “A Way With Words” this week. One caller was asking if “disadulation” was a word. It apparently was coined on “The Office”, a show I should probably watch. Of course, their answer was correct-a word is a word determined by its usage, not by the Word Police. If you say a word, and the listener correctly gauges your meaning, then its a word-it communicated an idea. That’s what words do.

We beat Texas again last night, although it was a struggle. Dice K keeps having his one big inning trouble-he loses location for an inning or so, then finds it again. But we hung on to win, making some mischief against their pen. The Yankees keep losing. I’d say they are dead, but we all know that 13 ½ games as late as August can evaporate (see Zimmer, Don or Buffalo Head Club, The)