Miscellaneous Baseball Thoughts

As I type this - there are only approximately 55 hours left till the 4:00 PM MLB trading deadline on Saturday.... Mike Piazza is in a tailspin. He's only hitting .167 (.544 OPS) for the month of July. Maybe he should get himself checked for parasites.... Does Roger Clemens qualify for Comeback Player of the Year? I mean he wasn't bad last year but he did comeback from retirement. Currently he's 12-3 (2.77 ERA) and may have a pretty good shot at a seventh Cy Young Award... Has anyone gotten to 299 wins more quietly than Greg Maddux? Last year there was a huge party for Clemens everytime he took the mound in anticipation of 300. Let's hope that Maddux's 300th gets the attention it deserves... Keep an eye on Jeromy Burnitz. Right now he's 6th in the NL in HR with 26 (5 behind Jim Thome). Remember that I picked Burnitz as a darkhorse to win the NL HR title (I think he was a 60-1 shot)...