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.

Jason Giambi, who became for many the face of (the beginning of) the steroids era in baseball has been released by the Oakland Athletics, the team with which he first made the majors back in 1995. He spent most of his career with the New York Yankees, but missed their World Series wins by a [...]