Thanks to Oakland's win last night, the Royals will spend at least another day alone in first place in the AL Central. The American League is incredibly balanced right now: the Tigers are winless, everyone else either has two wins, or three. With no exceptions. There are no four-win teams and there are no one-win teams. The National League lacks a four-win team as well, although there are a spate of teams still sitting on one win. It means nothing, and won't last, but aside from Detroit, as of yet, no one has had a disaster start, and no one has really flown out of the gate.

Gil Meche makes his second start of the season today, looking to build on a so-so six inning outing opener against the Tigers, which looked progressively worse over the next three days as Brian Bannister and Zack Greinke posted even stronger outings.

Meche will face off against Livan Hernandez, who not only is still alive, but is still in baseball. It only takes a few years in the National League, especially if you are playing for an NL West team, and I'll quietly lose sight of you. Well, the man's a Twin now, and he's only "33", so this looks like a nice pickup by Minnesota.

(Jokes about players from certain countries being older than listed are still funny, I think. Innuendos about players "looking slimmer" however, were not only never funny, they were cowardly. If you think David Dellucci used PEDs, as apparently Ed Farmer and Steve Stone, the White Sox radio team, do then just say it. Be a man. Show how righteous and un-shrunken your testicles really are. Defend our national innocence! If we are going to devote so much time and money and energy on this, then let's get rid of the nudge nudge wink wink level and just treat them like enemies of the state.)

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