>>yeah, by the time I got to the end of the thread I realized I had just mostly repeated y'all, but I tied everything together so well that I thought I'd just leave it -- hope you weren't inconvenienced too much. 8-) <<

Not at all! I don't know what we of the weaker sex would do without a bearded one to form a coherent synthesis of and lend credibility to our thoughts - especially on something like baseball.
always depending on the kindness of strangers,
Blanche