The Weekend...

Quick thoughts from the weekend...

Everyday's a Halladay when Roy's on the Bump: What a performance by Halladay on Saturday night. It's pretty amazing to see a perfect game, let alone twice in 3 weeks. When someone asked Marlins Outfielder Cody Ross if the Marlins were embarrassed about getting no-hit, and he said "Of course not, Roy Halladay's the best pitcher in baseball."

Speaking of the best players in baseball...: Pujols hits 3HR against the Cubbies yesterday, and each of them were absolute bombs. It's pretty cool to see the best pitcher in the game throw a no-hitter and the best hitter hit 3 homers.

Speaking of good pitching performances: Carlos Silva of the Cubs would have had the best pitching performance of the weekend if not for Halladay. This guy just loses 30 pounds and all the sudden he's been one of the more solid pitchers for the Cubs. Lilly looks like he's coming around, and with Zambrano coming back to the rotation soon after a pretty successful stint in the bullpen, the Cubs could make a run for the NL Central, but I'm not too optimistic about that unless Derek Lee and Aramis Ramirez start hitting.

Red Alert: The Reds scored 27 runs in 2 games. Granted, it was against the lowly Astros, but that's just a potent sample size of what this team is capable of. But Pujols and Holliday look like they're ready to turn it on for June with a solid end to May. I know I keep talking about it, but this Cards-Reds race is going to get exciting, and the two square off in St. Louis this week.

Mighty Max: Max Scherzer recorded 17 outs yesterday. 14 of them were strikeouts. He looks like he could be this years Ricky Nolasco: struggles out of the gate, but a short stint in the minors corrects things in a big way. I think it's something to be cautious about from a fantasy perspective, because it took him 113 pitches to record those 17 outs, and he walked 4.

That's it for today, happy memorial day....