End of Week Link Roundup

The links have been piling up so let's get them out to you, but first, on the right is a great picture of Manute Bol and Spud Webb from SI's Photo Vault before they head out on a boat

12 Days Until Spring Training

• Joba Time! New York Post's Joel Sherman says he's heading to the bullpen and then talks about how to use both Joba and Hughes in a blog post. Jason @ IIATMS talks about this "huge mess". Craig Calcattera at NBC Sports says that they're making a huge mistake with Joba (I totally agree). David Pinto of Baseball Musings says they should both be used in the bullpen to shorten games, but the Yankees don't seem to be too excited about the idea. River Avenue Blues discusses it further. Rob Neyer of ESPN.com says they just need to pick a plan and stick with it.
• Johnny Time! ESPN's Buster Olney hammers Johnny Damon and says "he's not going to the prom". NoMass asks if there is a more arrogant player? Baseball Prospectus' Jay Jaffe tries to figure out Damon's next destination. Jon Heyman thinks that even as the Yankees and Damon are divorcing, they're also thinking about getting back together. Baseball Prospectus gives a view into the Yankees' two newest OF acquisitions: Winn and Greg Golson
• The guys who replaced Johnny Damon? NYDN's Jesse Spector thinks that Winn is a win. Jay at Fack Youk says that Reed Johnson chose his goatee over the Yankees. Big League Stew's Alex Remington thinks that Granderson will be fine for the Yankees as long as they limit his exposure vs. lefties.
• Ross at New Stadium Insider has a pretty amazing exchange between the Yankees a former season ticket holder who wasn't happy about Randy Winn or any of the Yankees moves. He follows it up with an interview with the scorned fellow.
• LoHud's Sam Borden quotes Brian Cashman saying that the Hideki Matsui deal was one of his best. It was still a lot of money, but Matsui did everything the Yankees could have asked of him in the Bronx.
• Hankenstein was let out of the locked room and he speaks with New York Daily News' John Harper
• Rob at Bronx Baseball Daily has a list of the Yankees players and their agents which shows that not everyone uses Scott Boras.
• Rob Neyer says that, in retrospect, Yankee Stadium isn't a hitter's haven
• The Shmuck Stops Here has a pretty interesting quote from the Ravens owner picking on the New York Yankees.
• Dave Cameron (rightfully) won the BtB Sabermetric Writing Award for Best Commentary Article for his FanGraphs post about the marginal value of a win when talking about the Yankees leftfield search.
• Spalding Baseball Collection has a great selection of old baseball photos on flickr 
• Fack Youk compares John Lackey and Javier Vazquez
• The FanGraphs team talks about WAR on ESPN.com
• The OCD Chick (and many others) has a recap of the Bloomberg Sports Launch Event
• MetsBlog has Cliff Floyd ripping on the Mets and The Legend of Cecilio Guante has a pretty awful Mets calendar
• Kotaku talks about the MLB licensing agreement leaving certain players off of video games
• Flip Flop Fly Ball has two great new graphics about common last names and home runs and PEDs 

Ilya? I hardly know ya!

• The New Jersey Devils got better by getting the best player available and as a Rangers fan, I'm none too pleased about that
• The one guy the Rangers did get was Olli Jokinen and ESPN.com's Scott Burnside likes the trade for the Rangers. This amazing post from Puck Daddy about the Jokinen trade includes some great comments by Mrs. Jokinen at the end.
• ESPN.com's E.J. Hradek say that Glen Sather's term may be coming to an end (we can only hope)

Two Great Blogs Run By People I Know

• The Ultimate Hate List is about every little pet peeve you have in a hysterical, honest fashion
• From the Mouths of Children is a teacher's real life account of funny things her kids have said in class

Potpourri

• Agent Arm Tellem tells Huffington Post about the fine mess that was caused when the NBA fined Nate Robinson
• IIATMS has a post about when corporate sponsorship goes awry
• The NFL may be moving closer to a lockout according to ESPN.com
• The Philadelphia Wing Bowl and Snooki from Deadspin
• The Onion has a hilarious article about Steve Jobs staying up all night designing the Apple tablet
• Meet the market's biggest losers according to Fortune and CNN (H/T Paul)
• Mashable talks about a very controversial Facebook profile of a child who died in the Holocaust
• Kinsey from Mad Men reviews the facial hair of his co-stars for New York Magazine
• Heinz is coming out with some cool new ketchup packets according to Yahoo! News
• Hill Country is trying to make you sick via Grub Street (H/T Sarah). I did all-you-can-eat on a Monday and I got full mighty fast
• Lastly, MacGyver vs. MacGruber via PopEater

Have a great weekend. We'll try to get some stuff up for you before the Super Bowl on Sunday