Now that we're through the allstar break, we hope everyone enjoyed the start of the second half of the season this weekend.  The Cardinals and A's for sure did, picking up where they left off to stretch their winning streaks to 5 games.  The White Sox on the other hand....  BSG breaks it all down for you this week, from where else, but Jackson Mississippi, home of the Mississippi Braves, Brian McCann's MLB roots, and Phil Wellman's antics.  It's the Week in Review!

It's official folks, we're halfway through the season.  Which means, amazingly enough, that you are watching the 14th edition of the Week in Review.  Congratulations for making it this far with us, we hope to see you at week 28.  But before that, how bout a visit at the All-Star game?  Thanks to the good folks at FoxSports, YardBarker, and Lexus, BSG will be all over FanFest and the other All-Star festivities this week, so to track him down, use your social media tool of choice to tweet or facebook him.  It's the Week in Review!

Coming to you from the shores of Mailbu, it's the Independence Day edition of the Week in Review!  BSG has much to say about the upcoming all-star break and the league's first rendition of the rosters, but he'll save that for later in the week.  For your national holiday, he digs deep into the numbers supplied by the good folks at wezen-ball.com, and comes back with the only 4th of July, baseball-themed, video-blog to analyze base-running times.  God bless America.  It's the Week in Review!

Is there anything sexier than the chest hair of David Wells?  Batting Stance Guy gives him a run for the money today as he takes the form of some of the best chest-bearing players to ever half-wear a MLB jersey.  Get this and many other lists of silly baseball goodness in the one book written to glorify such things.  Enjoy!

Not too much to add to that title, so we'll just say thanks to the Bleacher Report for including him.  And #6 at that.  It's a great list though, and we gotta give props to our buddy Josh Womack for topping the group.  So far, it's the only stance BSG can't imitate.  So check it out > The 20 Coolest Sports Tricks in History.

The Yankees and Dodgers kickoff an interleague series for the ages tonight in LA.  Will Torre and Girardi let it be a free-swinging affair for their clubs?  If so, we could see some other hitters join this group.  It's Batting Stance Guy with the All-Strikeout Team.  Enjoy!

Been a rough week for the Tampa Bay Rays, but they'll try and stop the bleeding as they look to avoid the sweep vs. the Padres this afternoon.  If not, Evan Longoria won't be able to cheer himself up with a Starbucks Lemon Loaf.  What else does he not like? Find out in Questions From BSG's Daughters.

When you're trying to imitate stances for all of baseball, it helps to talk to someone who's been around.  Enter Hard Hittin' Mark Whiten, who played for 8 MLB teams in his illustrious career.  BSG took some time at spring training in Tampa this year to talk stances with the journeyman slugger.  Enjoy!

In this week's rendition of the Week in Review, BSG takes a look at the "stop-action-pose," and who's doing it best.  And he had some heavy contenders this week with things like Adrian Beltre's falldown blast over the Green Monster.  But in the end, Hanley Ramirez takes the cake.  BSG explains why.  It's the Week In Review!