This Week's Hacks

• In Tucson, the Diamondbacks are fit to be tied.

• My family is a demographer's dream. The teen pines for Barack. The wife insists on Hillary. Dad's got 'em McCain, Obama, Clinton - in that order - but it's all very fluid. In some respects, Hillary's a miserable candidate, but even I recognize she might make the best president of the three.

• Mark Reynolds, who we call "Cabana Boy", is shortening his stroke.
  

• I recently bought these baseball books at the huge VNSA sale held @ the county fairgrounds. Which book should I read first?
  

Summer of '49, David Halberstam

Whatever Happened To The Hall of Fame, Bill
James

1998 Arizona Diamondbacks Media Guide

The Mind of Bill James, Scott Gray

Tales from the Diamondback Dugout, Bob Page

Or, like a good boy eating his vegetables before dessert, must I first finish wading through Thomas Friedman's pretentious globalization tome, The World is Flat ?

• Finally, what women want