I for one am glad A-Rod bounced back from his enforced year off with grace and determination. I think more of him now than I ever did.

One of my best childhood memories is attending an old-timers day game at the stadium with my father in the early 1950s, when DiMaggio was a new old timer.

Don't tell me Nuno's another Hughes. How does Girardi pitch him around Yankee stadium? And if Yankee Stadium is such a hitter's park, how come no one told the Yankee hitters?

In 1961, Roger Maris batted third and Mickey Mantle batted fourth. Maris hit .269 but drove in a team-leading 142 runs (w/ 61 homers), while Mantle batted .317 and drove in 128 (w/ 54 homers). Meanwhile, Elston Howard hit .348, arguably making him the best hitter that year, but had just 77 RBIs. I guess when you've got a number of very good hitters, it doesn't matter where your best one bats as long as your pitchers give up fewer runs than you. (Crucially, the 1-2 hitters -- Bobby Richardson and maybe Tony Kubek, if I remember correctly -- were on base a lot, despite having modest averages in the .270 range.)

Even if the average person doesn't realize it, the Navy knows we're going to run out of oil eventually, and wisely they're getting ready -- as are several airlines. As feedstocks, capacity, and demand increases, prices of biofuels will come down -- and meanwhile the price of gas will increase because of dwindling supplies of oil. I don't know why people think we have an unlimited supply of oil -- we don't.

Incidentally, the real cost of gasoline in the US ranges between about $10 and $15 per gallon, but various subsidies keep the price lower.

The Defense Department, meanwhile, also knows that climate change is a national security threat. (Google "DOD on global warming" to find references to support this.) Biofuels are carbon neutral, so at least the greenhouse gases they produce will be reabsorbed.