Metropolitan Museum of Art security guard and Amazin’ Avenue poster letsgocyclones draws some interesting comparisons. The R.A. Dickey entry is best, but then R.A. Dickey is a pretty magnificent canvas.
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Yawn
You know why we yawn? Don’t worry, no one else does either. But I bet anything you can’t read this whole Times article without yawning at least once.
Terry Collins on managing a bullpen
Obviously with stuff like this it’s a lot easier to say the right things than actually do the right things with the game on the line, but it bodes well that the first thing Collins mentions about bullpen management is the pitcher’s workload. Probably also a good sign that he was himself once a bullpen coach.
Royals Review and Carl Crawford
Patrick Flood details a bizarre Internet turn of events.
DC-area Papa John’s offering 10 free toppings because Ryan Torain rushed for 121 yards in a quarter
No, I can’t find the rhyme or reason either. For a while, DC-area Domino’s offered one dollar off per pizza per Redskins touchdown, which was nuts when they scored six touchdowns that one time. Do chain pizza places in New York offer deals like this after Jets and Giants games? Could it ever be enough to prompt you to order from a chain pizza place in New York?
Fun fact: Someone in my office building today ordered Domino’s. In Manhattan. It was weird.
And furthermore, are there 10 toppings you’d want on a pizza, together, from Papa John’s? Former roommate Ted Burke suggests “10 times the regular amount of cheese,” which seems reasonable. Looking at the menu, I guess I could go pepperoni, ham, spicy sausage, regular sausage, beef (this is a topping?), bacon, canadian bacon, extra cheese, green peppers and jalapeno peppers. That might be a decent pizza.
Replacement-level player merits press conference
And yet the Dodgers’ acquisition of Jay Gibbons flew almost completely under the radar. Via Eric.
Matt Stairs still going
Awesome. I hope he makes the big-league Nats.
Meta musings on the blogger-friendly front office
James Kannengieser weighs in on speculation that Sandy Alderson’s candidness and accessibility to bloggers will affect the way bloggers cover the team. James is spot-on here. Everyone everywhere is susceptible to biases. Good mainstream media types and good bloggers will fight through them and strive to find some objective truth. Less discerning ones will cave to the spin they’re being sold. Providing access to bloggers will not prevent most bloggers from criticizing the team, it will make their criticism better informed.
Scribernetics: Watching the watchers
William Jim has invented a bunch of stats like “Bold Utilization of Nebulous Sources (BUNS)” and will use them to rate New York-based and national baseball writers. It’s not too far off the ground yet, but I hope he keeps this up.
Well this is terrifying
After five shark attacks in six days in Egypt, a scientist believes a shark might have developed the taste for human blood. We’re screwed.
I was swimming with some friends in Florida a few years back and a lifeguard type drove up on an RV and yelled at us to get out of the water. We got all pissy and started giving him bluster about how there were no laws that said we couldn’t swim there, until he said, “there are sharks in the water.” That is a foolproof way to get me out of the ocean.
Tedquarters 