This morning I read a great piece by Willam Hazell in which he takes a quick lookk at the numbers you will find if going through the baseball standings over the past two weeks. As Hazell puts it, “take a look at the Major League Baseball standings in any newspaper today. The numbers you’ll find, especially in the “streak” and “last ten games” columns of the page, seem to have been compiled by somoene quite dyslexic…The Detroit Tigers, baseball’s surprise best team at 82-49, have dropped seven of their last 10 games. The reigning champs from Chicago are only 4-6 and have fallen out of their wildcard spot, with surging Minnesota finally overtaking them. The mighty Yankees have dropped four of their last six on their lastes West Coast road trip. Yet it is their rivals, the Red Sox, who have been the most fearless free-fallers, dropping 9 of their last 11 contests.”

This one is worth your time.