- Harden ready to go for "one-start-in-a-row" streak: Rich Harden will start on Sunday at the Rangers. Scotty Blanco and I both whiffed on who would join the bullpen -- it's going to be Chad Gaudin (pronounced CHAD). Expect two great starts from Harden before he breaks your Fantasy heart again and goes on the DL for a sprained uterus.
- Carlos Gomez hits for cycle, something Johan Santana NEVER did: Gomez actually has two homers in his past eight games with six RBI and four stolen bases. Is he really available in 32 percent of CBSSports.com leagues?
- Brett Tresky went 3-for-3 with three runs scored in our Wednesday softball league: He also spelled everything correctly during the day's emails. Rumors of HGH abound -- although, Tresky spells it GHG.
- A-Rod close to returning in Week 7: Alex Rodriguez (sprained quad) is doing a little bit of everything right now, including taking BP and running in the outfield. He's eligible to return on Wednesday, and as the old saying goes, "Half of a Fantasy week with A-Rod -- is a weird phrase out of context."
- Lightning C Jeff Halpern out part of 2008-09 already: Halpern tore his ACL and part of his MCL and he's going to miss the first three months of next season ... which begins in like three weeks. He tore his knee up playing in the World Championships ... Dan Boyle hasn't dropped a skate on any wrists lately, so that's good.
- Magic win Game 3 in blowout, Billups' knee injury helped a little: Orlando stays alive with a win at home, but until they beat a healthy Pistons team, it doesn't quite count ... unless you bet the game.
- "My name is Votto, I like to get blotto!": Simpsons reference? Actually, it's his Fantasy owners that got a little blotto last night -- celebrating the rookie's three homers against the Cubbies. He's still available in 28 percent of leagues (Votto, not Otto the Bus Driver.)
- Richard Jefferson charged with assault: The New Jersey Net allegedly grabbed a man by the throat in a night club. To his credit, he didn't try to get his limo driver to take the blame like OTHER Nets.
- I nearly pooped myself on the way home from softball: After playing then eating wings at Bru's, my 20-minute drive home on the turnpike had to quickly become an 18-minute drive home, or else my upholstery would have a different color today. I made it ... this time.
- Rafael Furcal's back being problematic: Furcal thinks he can play on Friday after missing Wednesday's game. He's having an amazing season, making people add his name '00 Miguel Tejada-like to the Top Three Shortstops list. Scotty Blanco recently traded Michael Bourn, Stephen Drew and Micah Owings for Furcal in our Fantasy Mag Rotisserie league. Quite a haul for the contract-year shortstop. I nearly pooped myself when I saw that too.
When you get a chance, check out this blog entry by Baseball Jones, one of CBSSports.com's top blogging members. It's a great write-up about the blog genre in general and how some old school writers have a great disdain for it.
