F is for Florida

The East is locked up and the only doormat there, Montreal, has been playing better of late.

The contending teams are bunched up near .500. Put Florida or New York in the NL Central and they are 12 games out of first. New York is fading - they've won only 3 of the last 10 - and they have Ty Wigginton injuring Mike Piazza between unlikely home runs. Florida and Philadelphia will play 11 of their remaining seventy games against each other.

Looks to me like the NL wild card is sure to come out of the West.