Dale Earnhardt just shit in his grave. I mean, if Jeff Gordon acts like this when cameras are around ... good lord.

His new daughter, Ella Sofia, surely can't wait to be baptized with Pepsi and taken to her first game at "Wrigley Stadium."

And while I've been away, but not really away from NYC, just not updating regularly after 7 years of doing so...

• Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s is out and New Yorkers are taking their skills to real rock clubs. I paid $49.99 for mine, only hours before learning that Best Buy has it for only $39.99 and will even throw in a $15 Best Buy gift card. The only problem with that is you have to make another purchse at Best Buy which, as far as I can tell, is owned by the devil and is the epitome of the downfall of customer service, which is on life support in the U.S.

• Barry Bonds called Bob Costas a "midget" who knows nothing about baseball. Two away from Hank Aaron's home run mark, Bonds continues to pile on his all-time record for asshole-y-ness.

• The Yankees are making a move again, just four losses away from Cleveland in the wild-card standings. I really thought we were toast — not just "in trouble" but "no shot" — after leaving San Francisco on June 24. And that was before scoring a total of 2 runs in two losses in Baltimore, falling to 36-39.

Such a schizophrenic team. We're 8-15 (.348) in one-run games, but 27-10 (.730) in games decided by 5+ runs, even though 2/3 of the lineup had struggled to get going in the first half of the season.

Keep tabs on my post about most wins by 5+ runs in a season. We're only 100 games in, and these Yankees, the crappiest in the Joe Torre era, have more wins by 5+ runs than the 1961 Yankees and are tied with the 1986 Mets. Those teams won 109 and 108 games, respectively.