End of the Week Link Roundup

The last Yankee lefty to hit .400 in April was Paul O'Neill who hit .448 in April of 1994 and appeared in this great Seinfeld episode highlighted to the right...And we're off:

Yanks!

• Tim Brown of Yahoo! Sports has Jorge Posada ranks all his pitchers and the results are great
• TYU on Robinson Cano and "clutch"
• Want some weird A-Rod hate? HardballTalk's Craig Calcaterra has the details and Wall Street Journal has some more of the haterade. 
• Joe Posnanski goes out of his way to defend A-Rod
• The Bronx Goblin on Jorge's availability last night and Joe at River Ave Blues checks in on Cervelli's good luck 
• IIATMS pits Cano vs. Pedroia: the intangibles and ESPN.com's Rob Neyer weighs in
• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly on Javy Vazquez from NoMass
• A Yankees fan beat the New Yorker fact checker according to CBS News
• Ian O'Connor of ESPN New York talks to Ed Whitson about Javy Vazquez and Pinstriped Bible tells us why Curt Schilling wasn't totally correct
• Mike at River Ave Blues examines if Tyler Clippard is the one who got away
• The Yankees staff vs. the Media in paintball from YES Network
• RealClearPolitics has Jeter telling the President to watch out with the Yankee shots
• Ben from River Ave Blues on the John Sterling conundrum  
• The Yankees and the emotion of their Walter Reed visit from the News' Mark Feinsand
• The Onion says that True Yankees and Regular Yankees will be wearing different unis to distinguish

More baseball

• The Wall Street Journal has a New York-centric section further stoking our "center of the universe" mentality (correctly)...though they're already short a Yankee beat writer
• B-R's Sean Foreman writes in the New York Times about LOOGY's. Awesome.
• The Big Lead has a great reason for the Mets recent win streak
• How David Wright bulked up (with The Situation) from the Wall Street Journal (H/T Jay)
• FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal has a bizarre interview with Tony Bernazard
• Castro and Utley turned a spectacular double play for the Phillies (H/T Ben)
• Miguel Olivo is bad ass and Big League Stew tells us why
• SI's Jon Heyman looks at the rest of the first base market post-Howard and ESPN's TMI blog tries to figure out how much Sir Albert is worth
• ESPN has some really good news about the All-Star Game that took far too long...
• ...talking about baseball has another idea of the All-Star Game
• Jeff Feagles retired at age 44
• Bill Belichick gave Joe Maddon a hoodie 
• FanGraphs via ESPN's TMI blog on Austin Jackson's fatal flaw and TMI debates the best switch hitters in the game
• Halos Heaven debates if Bobby Abreu will make the Hall of Fame
• Matt White's story continues to amaze me
• The Red Sox went out of the country to try to find a catcher according to MLBTradeRumors
• Dogs in Citi Field
• Will Leitch of NY Mag tells us why the MLB Twitter crackdown matters
• The Daily News' Jesse Spector has some striking performances between Hamels and Lincecum.
• Chris Perez is a sore loser according to Big League Stew's 'Duk
• 30-for-30 about Billy Joel's last shows at Shea (or Shitty Field)? I'm there

Potent Quotables

• From SI's Jon Heyman: The Yankees are worried about Javier Vazquez. But as one competing GM said, "If Javy Vazquez is all they have to worry about, they're in pretty good shape.''
• ESPN's Tim Graham on Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum's trade-happiness: Why do I get the feeling that if Mrs. Tannenbaum sent her little Mike off to school with his packed lunch, he rarely ate whatever she made? By the time the lunch bell rang, he would've traded his bologna for a PB&J, his pretzel sticks for a fruit cup and offered recess services for a pudding to be named later.

Potpourri

• King Henrik and a Princess according to Deadspin? Awesome.
• MidwestSportsFan has a GIF battle between Chris Hansen and A-Rod
• Take a picture on Sunday for the New York Times
• Is Steve Carell leaving The Office?
• Iron Man 2 reviews are mixed
• The final season of LOST blogged by someone who never saw it before and LOST prints (H/T Stacey)
• Two buzzer beaters in one second  
• Come on Santonio Holmes
• The Goldman hearings were entertaining 
• A boy scout merit pin--for video games
• A new Jerry McGuire?
• A blogger's house gets hit up by the feds
• The Simpsons and Jon Stewart stand up for South Park 
• Let's beat up some Nazi's
• Snow in the late April
• Tourist traps across the US
• Etiquette campaigns in New York and Toronto from 2nd Ave. Sagas