Kind of a risky leak, isn't it? How many potential anonymous sources could possibly have early knowledge of that decision? Maybe Elin called the Times up.

The new Mercury Rev album is out!

@BigRicks: Is "doing the same thing that's been done since the game existed" inflating strikeout numbers, or is inventing the DH trying to inflate offensive numbers? It's not like the mound is higher in the NL or something.

Some people say Bill Plaschke shouldn't be a writer.

Yeah, by all means, let's strip half the strategy out of baseball by converting both leagues to the DH. Fuck off, Hank.

Enjoy it while you can, Cardinals.

@Paper Cut: Given how his last few films have been received, is he still rated at all by anyone other than studio executives? (And after The Happening bombs, probably not even them.)

"Ha ha! I'm relating to you! The blue-collar people!"

@Ronnie Woo Woo: Theriot is supposed to lead off. Maybe they can slot DeRosa back in that second spot where he went 3-for-5 the other day (and he does have an OBP of nearly .400) and then put Hoffpauir seventh - that'd be a ton of at least potential power in that bottom of the order with Soto and Hoffpauir going 6-7.…

It's disappointing, for sure. On the other hand, in the 14 games he missed with the calf issue, the Cubs were 9-5 and scored 7+ runs per; if we assume he misses 42 games (just to make the math easy), that's a 27-15 record between now and July 30, which I would surely take. We'll miss the home runs, but no matter how…

Slate's Robert Weintraub, like many of us, loves the old purple prose.

But what does Big Daddy Balls think of it?

World Cup qualifying??? You're just messing with us now, aren't you?

I just can't believe that the MSM has the nerve to bitch about blogs when a guy like Bayless is basically trotted out to argue the craziest stances imaginable; it's doubtful he believes half of them. It's like when John Kruk admitted he said the Pirates would win the Central (when they were like ten games out in May)…

15% approve? Who are you people?

Cardinals and Red Sox fans have "always" gotten along well because of something that happened less than four years ago?

The Edward R. Murrow act would probably grow tiresome if he weren't so consistently dead on.

Yeah, the crazy thing is less that they're playing it and more that they're playing it so loud and that you can hear thousands of people singing along to it. WTF?

A Mark Wohlberg vote. Disapprove.

White Sox game? Yeah, I don't think so. Although I'm hardly surprised there was a big block of tickets available.