Tony and Doug Inside MLB

They played 14 innings last night, going 1 for 11 with runners in scoring position before losing 4-3, and Grady consequently went with a scaled-back lineup today that included no Rafael Furcal, no Kenny Lofton and no Jeff Kent. The resulting skeleton crew appears to be little match for the always dominating Wandy Rodriguez.

Funny how you get jaded when you're around this game every day. I was enjoying lunch today at Ninfa's, one of my favorite Mexican diners in the food court of Houston's famed Galleria mall, when Jeff Kent and his four children walked past on their way to the adjacent ice rink for some skating. The three guys at the table next to me, all 20-something white-collar types obviously on their lunch breaks from work, recognized him immediately and were all a-twitter. One of them grabbed a cell phone, walked out to the ice rink and stood about 10 feet away from Kent, who was signing in with the attendant, and began covertly snapping photos of him with his camera phone. Fortunately, Kent never noticed. Would have been interesting to see what would have happened if he had, though.