Theo Epstein echoes your boy, me. Obviously I didn’t invent the idea, but it’s awesome to hear it from the mouth of an actual Major League GM.

Joe Janish gives a thorough rundown on Aroldis Chapman. The coolest thing about Chapman? He’s one of like 12 people who live in Andorra. I’ve always been fascinated by the tiny European nations. Chapman should help his country blow by Lichtenstein in their annual rivalry game*.

*- Note: totally fictional

Ruben Tejada and Ike Davis are torching Arizona Fall League pitching.

Mike Salfino blinds me with science while investigating Mark Sanchez’s psychological state.

Zoe Rice, a familiar name in the Mets’ blogosphere, and I speculate on some good potential board-game movies for the Perpetual Post. This might be funny, but I can’t tell how it came out because it’s blocked by SNY’s fascist Web filter. We’re apparently not supposed to play or read about games, which ends up blocking a whole lot of baseball content and even more game-theory content. I’m looking at you, IT director Gil.

UPDATE, 10:23 A.M.
Gil has lifted the ban on games on my computer. Great job by him. The mark of a good IT man is his ability to keep up with the times. The times clearly called for the ban on games on my computer to be lifted.