Apparently Bud Selig is hoping for a Global World Series between U.S. and Japan after the regular World Series. Not sure exactly how that would play out — especially considering pitchers and innings — but it’s a cool idea, and I believe something Bobby Valentine’s been advocating for a while.

Shaun Ellis does not care for SNY’s Jets programming.

Mark Himmelstein does some fascinating research about Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Minor League groundball/flyball data.

Andre Dawson is Cooperstown-bound. I wish Tim Raines got more support, but I won’t begrudge the Hawk his ticket. The amount of Twitter anger over the whole affair was a bit ridiculous, I think.