You got me

As many astute readers have pointed out, I had a rather glaring omission in my recent discourse about major leaguers who have scored 100 or more runs in 10 successive seasons.

Left off my list was a contemporary player who is about to score in excess of 100 runs for the 12th consecutive season: Alex Rodriguez.

Good Lord, is A-Rod a run-scoring machine, or what? As I write, he has already scored 127 runs, which gives him an excellent chance of breaking his own PR of 141 established in 1996. He will lead the league in runs scored for the fifth time.

Good catch, folks. Thanks

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Ian Kennedy is a 22-year old rookie pitcher for the New York Yankees. He has a problem.

He's supposed to get married on October 6. That would be Game 3 of the ALDS.

Oy!

Now I realize that when you spend all of 2006 pitching for Staten Island you don't automatically project yourself into the 2007 American League pennant race, but that is exactly where young Mr. Kennedy finds himself. He could very well be on the Yankees' postseason roster, and that means he'd be, um, busy on the afternoon and evening of Saturday, October 6.

This was all so eminently avoidable.

He's a baseball player. Baseball players have a three-month window in which they can be married. They can be married in November, December and January. Period. End of story. If his little sweet patootie doesn't understand this, or, worse yet, objects to this, then the marriage is doomed, anyway. Better to know these things sooner, rather than later, you know?

Football? Same thing. A football player can get married irom mid-February to the end of June. It would also be wise to check out, and therefore avoid, mini-camp dates.

Basketball? They get July, August and September.

Hockey? June, July, August.

I mean, how hard is this?

But weddings are a pain, no matter when. It's almost impossible to schedule a wedding that doesn't interfere with some sporting event. Fooling around with the NFL playoffs, Final Four and Kentucky Derby is always risky. But sometimes big events just materialize. I went to an evening wedding that was up against the epic Pedro Martinez-Roger Clemens Yankee Stadium duel in 2000. OK, no one could have forseen such a match-up when the wedding was booked. But check this out: there was no TV available!!!! We had to get up-dates from a limo driver listening on his car radio.

That's not acceptable.

Look, kid, you've got a problem. But how your fiancee handles this will tell you a lot about where this match-up is going in the long run. In a way, you're lucky.