Things to read while wondering whether the fact that Britney Spears albums and concert tickets are actually selling is a sign that the economy isn’t as dire as we thought it was: dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip dip BA dum, sha na na na, sha na na […]

Things to read while taking full advantage of the extra three days the Civil Rules give you for responding to a brief that was served by regular mail: Victor Wang ranks the farm systems. Victor’s approach is different than many you’ll see in that he weighs multiple prospect lists first, and works from there. I’m […]

I don’t usually post on weekends, but this weekend I did. In case you missed it: Late Friday evening I had two posts on the postponement of the Barry Bonds trial: This one with my prediction of what might happen in light of the prosecutions’ appeal, and this one scratching my head at ESPN’s Lester […]

Things to read while wondering whether Aragorn ever regretted releasing the Army of the Dead before that final attack on Mordor: John Beamer straightens out all of you knuckleheads who routinely mess up your correlation and your R squared. Me? I never touch the stuff. Chris Jaffe reviews a book by Robert Fitts on Wally […]

TGIF, babies: Richard Barbieri’s this annotated week in baseball history puts Google Earth to a fantastic use. Dan Turkenkopf investigates whether pitchers can control how a ball is hit. I won’t even pretend to understand all that, but I do know that some pitchers seem to have every ball hit off of them rattle off […]

Someone asked what the catching platoon was that I referred to yesterday. I’m ashamed to admit it because there’s no way it pans out, but it’s John Baker (FLA) and Dusty Ryan (DET). It’s a sim league and I chose them based on MARCEL projections that are probably way off for at least Ryan because […]

Things to read as you sit back and feel all smug about how you’ve put together quite a nice little catching platoon in one of your fantasy leagues: Why does John Walsh hate George Scott? That question — and everything you ever wanted to know about double plays — is answered here. Chase Utley is […]

Things to read while wondering if there are any news stories that the media won’t link to the bad economy these days: Josh Kalk looks at the “young guns” who could play a big role in 2009. Will they come through, or will they be shot down in a blaze of glory? Steve Treder gets […]

Things to read while getting your mind around the fact that “The Natural” — a pretty yet deeply flawed movie — somehow got four Oscar nominations. Man, 1984 has a lot to answer for: Chris Jaffe looks at the unique career of Rick Sutcliffe. He stops short of the broadcasting portion of that career, because […]

I was catching up on recorded episodes of “Man vs. Wild” last night — Bear Grylls actually ate bear poop in this one! — when I noticed no less than three commercials for new Discovery Channel reality shows. For those who don’t watch the Discovery Channel, these aren’t the super-contrived kinds of shows you see […]