The fight against mosquitos and West Nile Virus has taken to the skies. But what exactly can officials see?

If the satellite photos of your backyard arrive in time, there probably won’t be a need for the Santa Cruz County Mosquito and Vector Control (MVC) District to fly overhead and snap photos this summer. In a world thoroughly photographed (and the airbrushed free of humans) by Google, people are starting to come to terms with the idea that privacy ain’t what it used to be, but a few Santa Cruz residents may be alarmed to find out that the county is peering over the hedges in search of mosquitos, and promise they won’t look for anything else.

It’s the DH, stupid

By now, I’ve heard just about every possible reason for why the American League is just a better league. This is based on the head-to-head interleague records and the streak of AL wins in the All-Star Game.

Now, personally I like to call the National League “baseball” and the American League “Disney on Ice” because of the DH, which destroys the integrity of the game’s strategy. But more than hampering the in-game strategy, I think what we’ve seen since the last expansion rounds — which added 3 teams to the NL and only 1 to the AL — is the more sinister effect of the DH, the one that occurs in the off-season.The media has been bemoaning the lack of parity in the league since the last expansion, that in baseball your wallet size trumps everything else. What they’re missing, because of the incessant focus on the New York/Boston rivalry, is that this is only true in the American League.