The days are getting shorter. The temperature is dropping. The leaves are beginning to change colors. Which can mean only one thing: Mid-September baseball! Now I know that much of the drama has been drained from the pennant race (See the AL Central, AL West and NL Central races for examples). But both the NL and AL East races are still full of excitement, and the NL West, like every year it seems, is a 3-team dead-heat towards the finish line. To top it off, two intense series start tonight; the Braves and Phillies, and the Yankees and Rays.