Early Baseball Observations...

The 2008 MLB season is underway and with it, like in seasons past, a few surprises.  For instance, who wold have believed the offensively loaded Detroit Tigers would go winless in their first seven games?

Or how about the Baltimore Orioles leading the super-tough A.L. East?  And can the St. Louis Cardinals maintain their strong start and outlast the other five opponents in the N.L's top-heavy Central division?

My best guess is that by the All-Star break these three teams will each have changed direction.  And speaking of the N.L. Central, it leads to a head-scratching question that MLB somehow feels it does not need to justify.  That is, how do two leagues with three divisions each find 5 teams in four divisions, yet the  N.L. Central is comprised of 6 teams, while the AL West has only 4?  Doesn't a move of Houston to the A.L. West sound too simple?  And since the National League absorbed Milwaukee from the A.L., wouldn't turnabout be fair play?  We would then have six balanced, 5-team divisions.

Oh well.  If it took the league two decades to address the steroids issue, it would seem that a logical move of this magnitude will likely happen only after they put Jose Canseco into the Hall of Shame, er, Fame...