Julee's 7 today! Happy Birthday girl! We had a Rolling Pin donut fest, in lieu of a birthday cake!

Baseball News - John Shea, Chronicle Staff Writer reports that the Giants are likely to host the 2007 All-Star Game. Maybe I can afford to be a season ticket holder by then!

Reading Rich Draper's article reminds me of how much I miss Joe Nathan in our pen.

Good stuff here, by Andrew Baggarly, Staff Writer of the Oakland Tribune. He effectively sums up Five things that have gone right, and Five things that have gone wrong, thus far. Just reminded me that it's all about perspective - I was all freaked out about our affinity for grounding into those darn double play balls, but just knowing that others have done the same, collectively, as a team, calms me down a bit. Also, regardless of how poorly we did earlier this season, we're still in contention for the division at this point. And, really, it's not all about the win percentage - just get us to the postseason again, and anything's possible - two wildcard teams have won in the past two years, so it really is all about just gettin to the postseason, and steppin it up once we get that opportunity again. I can practically taste it...

Oh, and Mulder rocks my world. Oh, and Bobby Crosby and Tom Glavine. and...
-o