11.   The hottest thing in baseball these days is not the Seattle Mariners or the July trade banter.

12.   The way Appier throws those pitches makes his repertoire multiply like the rabbits that supposedly inhabit the baseballs these days.

13.   There is a new order in baseball these days and that has something to do with Alex Rodriguez.

14.   Tom Glavine wants to and really needs to throw a baseball every day.

15.   We speak here of postseason day baseball, a time-honored tradition that predates even Ken Burns.

16.   We play baseball every day.

17.   Where I grew up, in upstate New York, kids played baseball every day of the summer.

18.   You could come to the conclusion that this was the best day baseball had had in years.