Closing time has become duck and cover time this season on major-league diamonds. That's because closers, baseball's protectors of the realm, are failing to complete their missions with alarming and annoying regularity, and taking their fantasy owners' numbers in all the wrong directions, as if by divine decree.
Bee fantasy sports columnist Stu Rosenberg didn't know the book on Bryan LaHair when he selected the Chicago Cubs first baseman in the last round of his draft. Five weeks later, LaHair is one of his most reliable and productive hitters.
Turning Leonard Nimoy loose in the studio to record "Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space" — featuring such classics as "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Earth" and "Music to Watch Space Girls By" — makes perfect sense compared to my highly illogical fantasy baseball team.
