Links galore (lots of baseball stuff today with pitchers and catchers soon to report!):
-Rob Neyer agrees with me about Jeter. Jeter at SS and Brett Gardner in CF is probably their best move.
-This can't be good for his negotiations.
-Some really great points from Darren Rovell on the Citi Field situation (H/T to Rob Neyer for a lot of these links). I LOVE the last suggestion about just extending the lease. Makes perfect sense and it would make everyone involve happier.
-Speaking of those Metropolitans (I need to write a long post about the Mets incompetence soon)...wouldn't they have been better off giving Manny $36 million than Oliver Perez, a guy who still hasn't been worth $36 million in his career.
-My senior year at Brandeis, I read Jerome Holtzman's No Cheering In The Press Box to write my final paper for my final journalism class (one of the few books I actually finished in college). Tim Marchman is reading it and has, in his blog, my favorite quote of the book:
I started writing baseball in 1908 when I was fifteen years old, for the San Francisco Bulletin. I was the youngest baseball writer in the United States with a daily by-line—"Abe the Irrepressible Rooter."... In those days most writers resorted to slang, and I was trying to outdo 'em as best as I could in my feeble way. I wrote the old cliches—he "rammycackled the old tomato." He "ripped the stitches off the ball." That's the best I could do. Christ, all I graduated from was grammar school....
-Baseball Toaster had a fairly good collection of writers.
-This one is for WoWo and his dad, the two people I know who always seem to try to keep score during games.
-The Porn story is still one of my favorites from the Super Bowl. Freakonomics brings up the fact that they seemed to arbitrarily settle on that $10 figure.
-Audio from the US Airways flight.
-Audio from Jehuda Reinharz on the Rose Art Museum fiasco (he even admits they bundled the PR).
-Sandy Koufax was hit by Madoff as well.
-More LOST recaps from Doc Jensen (the best in the business) at EW (last week's from EW)...he seems to agree with me on a lot of points (including my Miles call!)
-I really think the Knicks are just trying to make players feel comfortable so that they want to come play for them. I'm not sure what else explains all this humiliation (maybe the inability to double team???).
-A car bombing like this in the United States is nuts. Really interested in hearing the story behind this. I'm sure Law & Order will do a "Ripped From the Headlines" when they find out more information.
-An article on why you should support Barack Obama's stimulus package written by...Barack Obama
-New sheriff in town for the SEC.
-Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer. Here's wishing her all the best.
-Ben Smith at Politico is already handicapping the candidates to replace her if she should step down.
-Ohhhh...so that's why New York City smelled like Pancake Day.
-Google Latitude is here (and quite scary). Go here on your computer or blackberry (download the new Google Maps to get the experience on the BB) and you'll get into it. So stalkerish.
-Good to know ostrich is not Kosher for my trip to Australia in a few weeks.
-And, lastly, I said before how we're turning Japanese (scroll down in post). Now the British seem to be trying to do the same. It harks me back to this Einstein quote: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”
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