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Category Archives: Links
San Francisco bans Happy Meals
For shame, San Francisco. For shame. If this nation’s children can devour 600+ calories worth of greasy food in a sitting, you’re damn right they deserve a toy.
Catcher defense rankings
More excellent work from Beyond the Box Score. A pleasant surprise (to some, at least): Josh Thole ranks 18th out of the 120 backstops listed.
DePo conference call live-blog
The Mets are introducing Paul DePodesta via conference call this afternoon, and since Matt Cerrone’s a bit sick, I’m live-blogging it for him at MetsBlog. Check it out, if live-blogged conference calls are your thing. Also, if live-blogged conference calls are your thing, maybe take up table tennis or something.
Mets’ best and worst uniforms
Craig Calcaterra gets to the Mets on his comprehensive list of each team’s best and worst uniforms of all time. I pretty much agree with everything he’s got here, but he neglected to mention the epic 1997 white-hat experiment (which I still prefer to the black hats).
Paul DePodesta in his own words
Good work by Sam Page at Amazin’ Avenue rounding up relevant quotes from Paul DePodesta’s blog.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Big League Chew, but forgot to ask
And remember, kids: The real money is not in gumball machines; the real money is in gumballs.
Still crazy after all these years
Note: If you’re going to write a single-source story, you should probably make sure that source is less delusional than Isiah Thomas.
Behold: Fridge couches
Neat idea. Hat tip to Stephen Kinnell.
Hey, check out some stuff I wrote
Because you don’t get enough of it here. I made a guest post for Bronx Banter’s Million Dollar Movie series again. This time the theme is scary movies, so I went with the O.G. slasher pic, Halloween.