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Quick links.

Working on a book writeup, but two links worth seeing:

  • Someone did, in fact, estimate where the Twins would be if they’d done nothing this offseason. I think the answer is pretty aggressive, but a three-win swing is probably the difference between playoffs and no-playoffs for them.
  • Tom Brady is worth 1.35 Albert Pujolses. Or something like that. Of interest: Matt Cassel went to the same high school that later produced Mike Moustakas and Matt Dominguez (corrected – never blog before the double-espresso).
  • If you didn’t get the Rob Dibble stuff in today’s chat, here’s what he said about me. I’m terribly broken up about it.
  • Bad news for libertarians … and anyone else who dislikes corruption and subsidies for billionaires.

More shortly…

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→ July 8, 2008
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Links for today.

Good stuff I’ve found on teh Interwebs today:

  • Joe Sheehan’s take on the Sabathia deal. Free content, unusual for a Joe article, and very good stuff, usual for a Joe article.
  • J.C. Bradbury notices that Jeff Francoeur’s worst quotes are missing from the AJC’s Web site. I’m with Bradbury, by the way: “Frenchy” needs to shut his mouth until his OBP is no longer subterranean.
  • Revisionist history from Chuck Lamar.
  • The Big Lead weighs in (again) on the move of the Sonics franchise to Oklahoma City. I have never understood why this is a big story. It’s a business. The Sonics’ owners felt that they could make more money by moving the team. That’s the end of the story, isn’t it? If there’s something interesting here, it’s that the people of Seattle had the balls to say no to a pro sports franchise that tried to blackmail them into building them a publicly-funded stadium. Good for them. Yes, they lost their team, but the price of keeping the team was too high.
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    → June 30, 2008
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    Monday stuff.

    I did a Q&A on the Cardinals’ draft over at Future Redbirds. The first commenter made my day.

    The dish is the blog equivalent of a cool indie band. Nice.

    I’ll be on ESPNEWS today at 3:40 pm EDT, and after that I’m off to the doubleheader at Lowell in case any of you will be in attendance. Feel free to say hi.

    If you can read Italian, check out .144, a blog written by a diehard baseball fan in Italy (and a great supporter of the growth of baseball in Italy, and the associated site PlayItUSA, with articles on US-based sports all written in Italian. It’s a good resource if you’re trying to improve your Italian vocabulary, which I’m doing right now in advance of the August visit of one of my cousins from Genova.

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    → February 1, 2008
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    Drunk Jays Fans.

    I love these guys, because they make me seem a lot funnier than I really am.

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    → January 26, 2008
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    The Onion article about me…

    …okay, not really. But it could be.

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