End of Week Link Roundup: Three Weeks Coming

I know, I know. It's been too long. We haven't even talked about Lefties' win. But in honor of Jay's birthday, I'm back and better than ever with the links of the week--3 weeks in the making. Here. We. Go.

Yankees

• River Ave Blues looks at the backup plans at each position
• A-Rod's changed a lot of opinions
• NYP's Joel Sherman takes a look at Jesus Montero's future
• A look back at some other Yankees as prospects
• The man who tore up Yankees Spring Training: Jon Weber...
• ...It wasn't enough, though  
• Yankee Stadium--pitcher's park? 
• The Yankees rigged the Spring Training battles
• Yankee-Red Sox games are very long
• It's good to be a Yankees
• Yankee quotes
• Former Yankees on Opening Day 
• Tabloid hysteria
• Switch pitching
• Carl Crawford in Pinstripes?
• Ervin Santana and the Yankees
• Scott Kazmir and the Yankees
• Andy Pettitte kept the ball down and threw 1st pitch strikes--and won
• Venuing
• Army help at New Yankess Stadium
• Changes to New Yankee Stadium
• Yankees fan: more passion than smart?
• STFU
• Winning art
• Remember when Nick Johnson and Jorge Posada were injury concerns?
• Best of the April Fools...
• ...or maybe this one
• Two-faced Vazquez

Other baseball

• Daniel Murphy...one to watch for?
• Can the Mets get anyone out?
• Mets lead in flags
• Jose Reyes dong prank at WFAN
• Doc Ellis and LSD
• The Phillies welcome a Mets castoff (and former Judge)
• What's the deal with the baseball names? 
• Phillies phans took over Washington
• Red Sox (really) suck
• A former Red Sox pitcher was stoned 
• The Times doesn't like the Red Sox anymore
• Remy's 
• So long Kevin Millar, you bum...
• ...Curt Schilling is a bum too
• What exactly a simulated game is
• Pedroia vs. Cano
• Jay-Z vs. Big Papi 
• David Wright vs. The Situation
• Sucks to be a minor leaguer
• Contract year slugger is a myth
• Getting on TV for a nice catch
• The statistical side of baseball has taken over...
• ...Bill Simmons is on board with that (with a few corrections)
• "My life in baseball"
• 122 wins for Boston (?!)
• ERA is out, RPA is in
• I love Flip Flop Fly Ball
• Stadium concessionaires
• Pete Dexter
• Nichols Law of Catcher Defense
• Baseball and hotdogs
• CJ Wilson (tonight's Rangers) starter and LOST 
• Smoking pot at Target Field? Not that serious/stern warning
• Baseball butts
• Which active pitchers will make the Hall of Fame?
• Crystal balls for ESPN, Joel Sherman, bloggers pt 1, Keith Law, TMI on Total Runs, bloggers pt 2, TMI with sure things, SI's Jon Heyman, Rob Neyer, Jayson Stark and BP AL Standings.
• The pitcher who gave up A-Rod's walkoff vs. the Red Sox last year is out for the season

Potpourri

• Hangover 2
• Musical with South Park 
• FRECKLES!
• Sean Avery fun (H/T Bryan) 
• Would you do the Sandra Bullock Trade?
• Tiger Woods's Inconvenient Women
• Tiger Woods ribbed
• Linda Cohn and I are mourning
• Rick Reilly wasn't much into Huggy Bear
• Drinking on the job in Denmark (H/T Sarah)
• Open NBA playoffs
• Does McNabb put the Redskins on top?
• Colbert Bump is real
• New Jewish delis (H/T Sarah)
• Phil Musnick isn't into ESPN
• Comedy Central and the Onion 
• No Crossover
• Jersey Shore season 2 is under way...
• ...and they're casting...
• ...for Boston
• Newark won something! (H/T Jay)
• Peeps (H/T Sarah)
• Obama goes both ways...
• ...and Obama has a legit Seder
• Verizon iPhone?
• Cruelest of the April Fools
• FOX News lies 
• Goldman vs. the SEC
• RNC phone sex
• Topeka

Thanks for reading, as always. We'll see you sometime this weekend!