1.   Among baseball people, the biggest talk is about the three managerial jobs that are open and the one that might come open.

2.   And baseball people take care of their own.

3.   And baseball people who knew Alcantara before he took the field that day in Chicago continue to ponder the mystery.

4.   And it must have been hard for owner George Steinbrenner to let the major-league trading deadline come and go without strong-arming his baseball people into doing something.

5.   Andruw Jones does that to baseball people.

6.   As a Royal, Appier toiled in relative obscurity, but baseball people were aware of his talent.

7.   Baseball people are living in a different and increasingly surreal world.

8.   Baseball people believed he was just trying to lead others away from the idea that he had a deal with Davis.

9.   Baseball people say that all the time.

10.   Baseball people sometimes have strange views on elements of the game.