End of Week Link Roundup

Thanks to all who participated in the first ever NYaT live chat today. You can see a replay of it here. We'll do it again in two weeks before the Super Bowl. The photo, from 1969 and in honor of the J-E-T-S, comes straight from the SI Photo Vault and shows Joe Namath grabbing a drink with a lady friend. Let's get to the links:

Talkin' Baseball...

• NY Mag did an interview with Curtis Granderson and found out he likes eating at the BLT chain and he got advice on New York from Gary Sheffield. I can live with the former but the latter scares me.
• David Schoenfield of ESPN says that Derek Jeter was the second-best SS ever and was even better than Cal Ripken, Jr.
  
• Big League Stew has a list of the worst uniforms of the last decade (I hated the Angels ones)
  
• Jayson Stark of ESPN proposes a Jerome Holtzman award for the best relievers and I love the idea
• A great Dusty Baker graphic from Beyond the Box Score
• Rob Neyer of ESPN.com and Matthew Cerrone of MetsBlog.com question the Mets picking up Gary Matthews, Jr. The 'Ropolitans can live with $1 M a year for Matthews.
• Rob Bradford of WEEI has an inside look about what happened between Jason Bay and the Red Sox
  
• A top Oakland A's prospect is leaving baseball for priesthood according to FOX Sports' Jon Paul Morosi.
• Sam Borden of LoHud talks about "The Hall of Memories" and Donny Baseball
• NPR says that computer-generated sports stories may make beat writers extinct. Ouch
  
• River Avenue Blues quotes a report that says the Yankees offered Jesus Montero straight up for Roy Halladay. Interesting...
  
• Sandy Koufax will speak in public according to Big League Stew!
• Beyond the Box Score lists some potential 2011 Hall of Fame hitters and I like Jeff Bagwell and no one else on that list. Sorry.
• Peter Gammons on the revenue gap in baseball
  
• FanGraphs looks at the horrible winter of 2006 when pitchers got WAY too much money and produced WAY too little
  
• Dayn Perry of FOX Sports looks at the 2011 free agent class
• Mike Axisa of River Avenue Blues looks into the 2009 Yankee offense to find out if it was lucky or unlucky (amazingly, they were unlucky)
  
• Eric Byrnes may not be unlucky...he may just be bad according to FanGraphs
  
• FOX Sports' John Halpin lists some early fantasy baseball sleepers with Brett Gardner among them
• Big League Stew's Alex Remington gives a primer on Win Shares and wOBA. The former I like but probably won't use (it still confuses me why I would use it over WAR) and the latter I've been trying to use a lot more of...and this certainly helps. Some more good stuff on wOBA from Bless You Boys
  
• Murray Chass gets a beatdown by The Baseball Analysts (and deservedly so)
• Speaking of pariah's (just kidding!), Jorge Arangure Jr. has a great post on ESPN.com about Jose Offerman
  

Hut, hut, hike!

• Are the Jets playing this weekend? I heard some rumors of the sort...but that can't be true, right? I mean Rex Ryan declared his team out of the playoffs weeks ago. Oh...(we spoke a lot about the Jets in our chat today so go to the replay if you want Jets talk)
  
• Mel Kiper, Jr. of ESPN thinks that Carlos Dunlap from Florida is going to the Giants. Don't know much about him, but he seems like a really good fit. 
• Antonio Cromartie of the San Diego Chargers looked like he tanked it ("pulled a Randy Moss?") in the 4th quarter according to The Big Lead
  
• I watched the Giants 2007 Super Bowl video the other day and was surprised (again) to see how much Reuben Droughns contributed to the Super Bowl team. I'm surprised again as ProFootballTalk says that he got busted today for growing pot in his house.
• Maybe Bill Cowher won't be the next Giants coach according to Ralph Vacchiano of The Blue Screen
  
• Bar None in New York City is about to become a hot spot to watch the second NFL game on Sunday according to Yahoo! Sports. I hadn't been to Bar None since I've been "of age" so I didn't even knew they showed football. I just thought it was a teenage hangout...

Potpourri

• Sports Pickle has a hilarious bit about what sport each Jersey Shore cast member would play. I'll give that two fist pumps!
• LeBron wasn't the biggest fan of Craig Sager's latest disaster of an outfit as The Big Lead shows
  
• RealClearSports has a lists of the sports knuckleheads of the month
  
• Law & Order: SVU predicts the future according to The Daily Beast
• John Travolta is a jackass
• Samuel Dalembert is certainly not according to ESPN's TrueHoop
• The New York Daily News kisses the feet of New Jersey (H/T Jay, who loves NJ as much as this writer)
• I lived in one of the 8 coolest college dorms according to US News & World Report

Have a great weekend!