I’ll be on ESPNEWS today at 2:40 pm EST.

Squawking Baseball has a great interview up with John Coppolella, the Director of Baseball of Administration for Atlanta, focusing largely on the arbitration process.

Good article on how maybe we’re getting a little paranoid about food allergies. Funny slightly related story: My daughter has a mild allergy to pine nuts, and after she got a rash from eating store-bought pesto, we took her to an allergist for tests. The allergist was Taiwanese, and didn’t know what pine nuts were. When we explained, his response was, “People eat those?”

Steve Biel of the totally-dated blog Fire Jim Bowden gets quizzed about his role in the Vast Baseball Media Conspiracy by Dan Steinberg.

One thing that does bug me about the ongoing bailout: “Can the Administration report how many of the people due to receive tax dollars spent home equity on plasma TVs?” Seeing rent-to-own tire stores in Houston last week made me wonder just when it became acceptable to finance anything and everything you purchase.

So someone pointed out that my blogroll didn’t make it through the database export/import, which means the list of reader blogs is kaput. If you’re a regular reader/commenter and your blog was listed in my old blogroll – or should be in the new one – drop a comment here. As long as your content isn’t obscene or highly objectionable, I’ll add it.