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The possible one-game playoff scenarios in the AL are summarized in this excerpt from an MLB.com story, with some wording adjustments I made to try to make it more clear: Current records: New York 94-65 Boston 93-66 Chicago 96-63 Cleveland 93-66 So if Cleveland sweeps Chicago...

I don't even remember hearing about "walk-off" home runs until the last few years, it seems like that term exploded in popularity fairly recently. It definitely is overused. But I still like "throwing [someone/something] under the bus," even though ESPN has beaten that into the ground. Good...

Mark, that actually happened just last month, when the Brewers won a game at home against the Nationals on a "balk-off" run in the bottom of the 10th inning! Oops, registration required...click here instead for the ESPN recap.

I haven't seen the highlights, but I can hardly imagine a weirder ending to a game than last night between the A's and the Angels. Tied 4-4 in the bottom of the 9th, two outs with runners on 2nd and 3rd, Frankie Rodriguez pitching to Eric Chavez. First pitch is a ball, K-Rod mopes about the...

Desperate enough to start taking roids only then, knowing that testing had just begun, and that he had denied ever taking them in front of Congress? Seems extremely unlikely to me. I'm sure he'd been through slumps before in his career, and even if this was the worst one he'd had in a long time...

I'm still kind of mystified about the Palmeiro situation. To believe the increasingly unlikely story that he accidentally took something that he didn't know was (or contained) a banned substance, you'd have to figure that he was pretty damn stupid. But to believe that he did it on purpose, you'd...