71.   Finally, baseball has a pennant race again.

72.   Finley is the kind of player who can make a difference in a pennant race, which is why the Indians and Yankees want him.

73.   Fading contenders such as the Rangers and Cardinals can peer into baseball history and find several pennant races won by teams that appeared to be finished.

74.   For breakfast the other day, we should have had box scores and big-league pennant races, the leaders and the desperate and the no-hopes.

75.   For not only did he lose a potential everyday assignment, he also got yanked out of a pennant race when the Rangers acquired him from Anaheim.

76.   For one thing, the Yankees might actually find themselves in a pennant race.

77.   Fortunately, the players are largely immune to the irrational, hysterical, emotional swings the rest of us suffer through in a pennant race.

78.   For me, it was so exciting to be back in a pennant race.

79.   Go For Gin does his part, but Zito has no way of knowing baseball will call off its pennant race before the home stretch.

80.   Gooden is definitely in trouble and that means the Yankees could also be in trouble in this perilous pennant race.