It is a muggy day here in the Bronx. The sun is trying to come out and when it does the sky turns a lighter shade of grey. Not exactly autumn weather. The Yanks send Carl Pavano out there today to serve it up to the first-place Rays. Me, I’m going to the movies, gunna check out the Joel and Ethan Coen’s new comedy, another caper about a bunch of bumbling idiots. Sounds about perfect. Hitting an 11:00 a.m. show and will be back to catch most of the game.

Thread away, if you dare.

Hey, even if these are sad times, at least there is baseball today. It’ll be really sad in a couple of months when football, hockey and hoops are all we’ve got on our plate.

So as Aaron Gleeman says, Happy Baseball.