Mark Reynolds

Stay up late this week and catch a shooting star. For once I'm not talking about picking someone off waivers. Go outside around midnight on Wednesday night and you might see a real shooting star: The Perseid meteor...

As we head into the stretch run, we take a look at a team winning in a very uncharacteristic fashion, a situation where less is more behind the plate and one of the more memorable games of this or any season.

Imagine for a minute that you had free reign to add any three players to your team for the second half, while punishing a heated rival by tagging them with three more of your choice. That's basically the essence of...

1. The argument for All-Star snubs is losing some of its merit now that a whopping 66 players are named, and that's before the inevitable additions because of injuries and other circumstances. But here goes, anyway....

The toughest job with a column like this is giving so many pieces of advice and knowing that some of them won't pan out. Every analyst wants to be right all the time, just like every ballplayer wants to bat 1.000....