New Gammons Column

ESPN.com has a new Peter Gammons column up. Gammons is the best - there is nothing like reading one of his columns (especially for those of us who were weaned on his Sunday Notes columns in the Boston Globe). I do have a couple of thoughts/disagreements with Peter though:

- Gammons tries to make the case that the AL Wild Card may come from the West (and not necessarily guaranteed to go to either the Yankees or Red Sox). Now - I'm on record for saying the Yankees won't make the playoffs this year but I also don't see the Angels putting it together and finishing either first in the West or having a good enough record for the Wild Card. To me the Wild card will come down to either Seattle, Oakland or Toronto (who has a much better team than the Angels).

- Any time you read "Player X is healthy and on a mission" - it is almost guaranteed that player will be out for the year before the All-Star break. Gammons uses that descrirption for Troy Glaus in his column.

- Gammons wrote "The consensus is that the Giants are going to take a fall [in the NL West]." I couldn't agree with this more. I see the Giants fighting it out with the Rockies for last place in the NL West this year.