End of Week Link Roundup

We couldn't do a Spring Training link roundup without a good baseball picture. So here's one of Roberto Clemente from the SI Photo Vault playing catch in a parking lot. Now on to the links:

Take Me Out To the Ball-Game:

• Some more great baseball photos from ESPN's Rob Neyer: Fantography: Snapshots of Baseball and Mister Baseball's pictures of baseball fields across Europe. Pretty awesome
• Speaking of Neyer, New Jersey Jewish News says that Sandy Koufax may have had a "Neyer" moment.
• FanGraphs dives deep into Mariano Rivera and Phil Hughes and Jay from Fack Youk follows up on that
• More from FanGraphs on the aging catcher for the Yankees, Jorge Posada and more from Fack Youk on the youthful Yankees hitting the arcade.
• Marc Carig of The Star-Ledger proves once again that Red Sox Nation is obsessed with the Yankees with these television commercials (maybe because some people still feel like they're the team of the decade). Carig also has a great interview with Bernie Williams in which he discusses with him his Hall of Fame chances.
• This Purist Bleeds Pinstripes now knows why people devote their lives to Jesus...Montero. Check out those projections. That's projection porn for you, people. And FanGraphs has more on Montero and WAR.
• Katie Sharp writes for ESPN about how fast Brett Gardner really is and Tom Tango writes for ESPN how he would construct a $100 M team on 1-year deals. Tim Marchman of SI ranks actual General Managers and finds that the top 3 are in the AL East.
• Bronx Baseball Daily continues their look at where former Yankees are now with this recap of where all the former Yankees are around the majors
• [If he's healthy] HardballTalk's Craig Calcaterra discusses why Nick Johnson will be the Yankees' number 2 hitter
• If you didn't know it already, The Hardball Times proves that the Mets are hitting the ball the wrong way
• Former Yankee, Chad Moeller talks to Tyler Kepner of The New York Times about the different pitchers he caught in his career. Very belatedly, a writer who voted for Miguel Cabrera over Joe Mauer explains his MVP choice to Kepner.
• Lastly on baseball, Jesse Spector from the New York Daily News looks at where Olympic gold medalists and baseball Hall of Famers mixed in hometowns.

Madison Square Garden teams:

• Deadspin has a great gallery of customized jerseys, but jersey #13 has a special place in the heart of all Rangers fans (H/T Jay)
• New York and Spike Lee gave a truce to Reggie Miller for one night according to the New York Post
• Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo! Sports says (kind of harshly, in my opinion) that if Olympics made you love hockey, the NHL will break your heart

Potpourri:

• The Big Lead has news of a horrible marriage between Hearst Newspapers and Bleacher Report
• Forbes has the numbers on the embarrassing sale of the Charlotte Bobcats. Forbes also has "an app" for betting on the Oscars
• I haven't been to Katz's yet despite the name, but after reading this Grub Street New York post and knowing how much I like my neighboring 2nd Ave Deli, I think it's time
• Yahoo! Sports has a bizarre of a football coach encouraging newspaper theft from his players
• Really interesting look from the New York Times at a Deadspin post that came back to bite the writer for being too harsh. And a really interesting look by Vanity Fair into David Letterman and what's going on at CBS.

Quick Hits:

• Likes: Zoolander 2, LOST Execs talking about the series to EW, press passes for bloggers
• Dislikes: Less time on earth (H/T Wendy), snow in my travel (H/T Sarah), GOP scare tactics (H/T Wendy), and ticket schemes (H/T Jay and Sarah)

Have a great weekend and make sure not to put your Nexus One into your skinny jeans!