Wabash. It's John and me again, and I'll say it before he does: he has played six fewer games than I have, so two games back is worse than it looks. His Cannonballs have Maddux and Belle and Tom Gordon in the bullpen, and they don't beat themselves. My Special Deliveries have Larry Walker hitting like a man with a grudge and not much else. We play a four-game series at the October meeting, and I have it circled on the calendar in red.

Prairie. George's Hornets are running away with it. He drafted Glavine and Juan Gonzalez and Barry Bonds and then spent the summer making trades the rest of us said were foolish, and we were wrong every time. Unless the Hornets fall off a cliff, it's George in December.

Ted. Has the home run leader, the batting runner-up and the saves leader and is ten games under .500. Ted writes from Florida that he has "no pitching and no luck," and he is half right.