* Minority Report is a pretty crappy movie, but it looks great in HD.

* Alex Rodriguez is the MVP and I wish people would stop arguing about it. There's very few things I disagree with Jayson Stark about, but this is one of them. I sense that Lee Sinins is going to lecture Jayson on RCAA pretty soon.

* Is there a Madden Anonymous group?

* It's September, right? Late September? And the Cubs are in first?

* Every once in a while, my new cell phone crashes. Just stops, like its Windows or something. It's not horrible, just annoying and makes me wonder if we've reached that complexity tipping point for a device we rely on. I'm reasonably sure my TRS-80 Model III never crashed. Sure, the cassette drive would jam up, but it was a CASSETTE drive!

* I need some new coffee recommendations. The latest one I tried, a Yerba Mate mix, is pretty weak. I hear Jamaican's cheap in Canada.

* He's good, but I fail to see many comparisons between Cy Young and Greg Maddux. Pitching before 1920 is just a completely different animal. I'd have loved to seen the pitch counts on Young though. Bet he didn't go 120 very often.

*Wood, Estes, Zambrano, Clement, Prior, Wood fills out the rest of the season and, if no ties, puts Zambrano, Prior, and Wood as the playoff three-man. Clement could factor in there too. Why Estes on Wednesday? I just don't grasp that one. I guess Dusty realizes he can't pitch Zambrano (who needs a nickname) on short rest after 130 pitches, but it's a bad excuse.

* Carlos "The Bull" Zambrano. I like that one. I also still like "Digital" Prior.

* I should get more sleep.