Showing Up, New Bloggers, and the Definition of Dominance

Item 1: The Pirates actually showed up today against a legit Major League team. Quite an accomplishment, I think. Shane Youman tossed his first game for the Buccos this year, replacing the "injured" Zach Duke. Although 2 ER over 6 innings "feels" good, he only struck out two, walked one and allowed a home run. 4 out of 5 times, that line is going to net more than two earned runs. But we'll take it tonight, especially for his first start.

Meanwhile, the bullpen stepped it up bigtime. Marte, Chacon and Capps threw three innings, 5 SOs, no walks and no home runs! 4 out of 5 times, that line will net you no ERs. Way to look like a real major league team, guys!

Item 2: With Ken on hiatus, I feel our energy level is a little low around here. How do you guys feel about adding another blogger or two to liven things up? If you have anyone that would be interested in typing their fan-ranting for the likes of a huge audience of 2-10 people per day, maybe now would be a good time to add them. I know a rabid Indians fan who could add to our AL commentary.

Also, if we do happen to have any regular readers that we don't know about, maybe they should just leave a comment and we could just add them as authors.

Item 3: This year in interleague play (I just got around to looking at the final interleague standings today) there were TWO NL teams with winning records. Two! And one of them was the Rockies. Meanwhile, there were only THREE AL teams with losing records. Two of them are Baltimore and Tampa Bay, who have sucked almost as long as the Pirates, and the other was the White Sox, who I believe are scoring at a rate of one run a week. AL DOMINANCE. What do you think is more unbalanced right now, MLB or the NBA?