Mickey Mantle's F-Bomb Ball and Other Morning Links

Forgot to get out links yesterdays...so I'll try to make it up today (without any articles on PEDs!):

 

-There is a Mickey Mantle souvernier for sale...but you might not want to buy it for your kid.

-Google has had some bad luck lately. First the site sends out false error warnings to visitors to its search engine. And it seems that its e-mail service, Gmail, crashed for a while overnight. Not good news for two of its more well-functioning programs.

-I really should be a hockey commentator after my dead-on analysis of the Tom Renney firing yesterday on this blog. Scott Burnside agrees with me that if Renney's gone, Sather should be next. Pierre LeBrun also agrees with me that Tortorella will be a good coach to inject life into the Rangers, but what happens with Sean Avery comes back?

-I guess Brandeis isn't the only one selling its art

-The Yanks decided to take off from baseball yesterday to play pool. Seems like a good idea in my mind. For too long this team has seemed like a group of really good individuals or cliques rather than a team so anything to help them bond together is good. It ends up that Mariano Rivera does not only dominate on the field. And some cool pictures from the event here by Peter Abraham.
-Also word from Pete that Posada will receive a well-deserved award considering all that his charity does.

-PECOTA tries to predict if A-Rod will break the HR record (they say he won't...I disagree).

-Some very, very odd spring training injuries including an alligator attack

-Some very, very odd baseball names

-A really good signing for the Braves

-MannyBeingManny gets stimulus money. Nice work Scott Boras ;)

-Thankfully, Emmitt Smith will no longer be a football "commentator" (bring on Favre?). A good grasp of the English language should be a starting point.

-The New York Knicks Italian Heritage Night didn't go over so well in Italy

-Ohhhh...so that's what burning bridges is

-Kramer would be proud of this

-So I guess now is a good time to start up banks...but Bo Jackson and Ronnie Brown? I guess Bo Knows...

-It's really not a good time to have the last name Bowden and be in sports after this news about Jim Bowden. Now's a good time to get that GM resume in order.

-The Periodic Table of the Social Media Elements. And Facebook is worth $15 billion (inset Doctor Evil pinkie to the mouth)

-So if "Madea Goes To Jail" makes $41.1 Million in a weekend, does that mean (at an average cost of $10 a movie) we have 4,110,000 dumber people in America? Because I think that's what it means.

-This Google Maps shot is awesome.

-A sad sports story from college. A sad sports story from high school

-I'll take one of these

-I wish the iPod Touch/iPhone application management worked like this

-One person's way to be able to see all your favorite shows without cable. I don't recommend this. But it's an interesting idea.

-Lastly, an awesome Craigslist ad (H/T Wendy)