1) With everybody focused on A-Rod’s 600th homer, I’m more concerned with the way he’s hitting in general. Despite his claims, it’s obvious that the only thing on Rodriguez’s mind is when his next home run will be. However, has everyone forgotten that he was on the all-star team this year yet is batting below 270. with less than twenty long balls?! Alex, you’ve got plenty of time to catch 600, let’s focus on getting on base buddy.

2) Where did Jose Bautista and his 33 homers come from? I hadn’t heard of the guy before this season, and for obvious reasons- he’s playing on his sixth team in a six year career! He was unimpressive on numerous bottom feeders like Tampa Bay (during the dark days when they were known as the Devil Rays), Kansas City and Pittsburgh. He’s now tearing it up on the MLB’s biggest surprise, the Blue Jays. The Yankees just learned their lesson the hard way; the Jays can hit. We got burned for eight runs… two nights in a row! We’re in danger of being swept thanks to the king of inconsistency, AJ Burnett. I’d rather him be consistently bad so the Yanks would at least know not to start him. Instead, he pitches a Cy Young worthy game and warrants another start, which he blows. He has so much talent but hasn’t put together a string of great games in an eternity.

3) The Heat became the team to hate by putting together an unbeatable team this off season. They’re the Yankees of basketball and just gave everyone another reason to despise them. When LeBron was signed they sold all of their season tickets in a matter of minutes. Normally, the purpose of the season ticket department is to promote and sell season tickets all year long. The Heat, having already sold their entire stock, just fired the entire season ticket branch because they don’t need them anymore. The department was penalized for the success of the franchise and its employees are now jobless. I understand that sports is a business, but Miami could have just relocated the workers. Maybe this is a sign that the Heat are struggling financially due to their recent signings. Intentions aside, it wasn’t the classiest of moves.

It seems like the only teams I write about these days are the Yankees and Heat, but football season is coming. It should be a great season after all the roster changes that went down this summer.