Ways to tell things are going your way:

- Kevin Youkilis, not exactly noted for his blazing speed, hits an inside the park home run.

- Curt Schilling, who has been a bit shaky in his last couple of starts, goes seven innings, giving up one run, no walks and striking out 10 against a very good Cleveland team.

- You closer gives up a run, has second and third, no outs and gets out of it with a 5-3 win.

- The Yankees dropped their 4th in a row to the Blue Jays tonight. The Sox are now 13.5 games ahead of the Yankees and 11.5 ahead of second place Baltimore.

One team for whom things haven't been going so well are the Milwaukee Brewers, who have lost six in a row, dropping a 2-1 decision to the Braves today. In fact, since I announced that the Brewers were my National League team for this year the Brew Crew has gone 4-12. They do still lead the NL Central by 5 games, and they have some astonishingly devoted fans.