We’re back to do it again for the NL.  See what you think of our picks, and feel free to sound off in the comments.

Well, the All-Star break is over–long over, if you’re a team like the Red Sox, whose momentum has suddenly shifted.  Races are heating up almost universally, and it’s time to start talking playoffs. There is, after all, only one October.

Every week, UPH will look at one confusing thing in sports, and figure it out.  It will then become Stuff We Didn’t Used to Get.  If you’ve got something you want us to investigate, drop us a line.
What the heck does the trade deadline even mean, anyway?  It just happened on July 31st, yet MLB [...]

David Ortiz apologized for being a distraction. Twenty minutes earlier, the player’s organization mea culpa’d: some of the players on the 2003 list didn’t actually test positive, saying that of the 104 names on the list, both the player’s association and MLB agree that only 96 of them actually tested positive.  But Fox baseball says [...]

Sonia Sotomayor ended the 1994 MLB strike.   She grew up working for what she’s got.  She’s smart as hell, and not afraid to make it known.  And last but not least, the woman loves her team.
Yup, it’s official: We’re making the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice the first honorary member of the UPH Squad.  [...]