Start your engines...

Well now for the start of the pennant race in the AL East.  The favorites are Tampa and Boston, but the winner will likely be the Yankees, they will be tougher or they will be broken by the ordeals of their season. The league does not seem to want their success, they tax the Yankees, ten times more than any other team, give their money to other teams as profits.  They pay much more for talent and have much less than than their rivals, especially pitching and youth. Then there is the on-field disparities, the Yankees get the least of borderline calls for their pitchers or hitters, its as if every umpire has a script to follow.  They outed A-Rod the only player to have his confidential health information published ..as if being dumb enough to take steroids and shorten one's life was not bad enough, now the press "on steroids" has a field day with him.  I don't think there is an advantage to steroids for a hitter, big muscles slow down the bat and steroids slow down the brain; impair judgment... imagine how many more he could have hit with a clear mind and nature's own incredible reflexes.  You don't need big muscles to hit home runs, and hitting is more important than home runs. So with injuries and age, and hostility all around...if they can swim they will become the sharks in the water, and they will be toughened to win under pressure.  Boston has overrated pitching and the most generous treatment by umpires...incredible, but they will fade, Tampa will be the wild card and will take someone to game seven.  The race begins...this is news n Boston, I think they thought they were ahead because they swept the Yanks a few series... Calendar says its not August yet, that is the time to prove what you build in July...the race starts now.