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"He Had Some Silky Skills ♬ Now He Walks Like Heather Mills" [Blogdome]
Published 3/2/2008 by Sussman at Deadspin
• Aston Villa fans' jingle about Eduardo's injury took some gumption. [FanIQ] • Herm Edwards was fully aware of the Patriots videotaping him. [FanHouse] • Lance Briggs is staying in Chicago after all. [Luol's Dong] • When Pat Burrell had to live with old people. [Bugs & Cranks] • Jeremy Brown retired, so that means Moneyball was wrong. [Fire Joe Morgan] • DE Justin Smith signs with the 49ers. [Niners Nation] • Randy Moss could could go to the [spins Twister wheel] Eagles. [The 700 Level] • Can ...

Links of the Week
Published 3/4/2008 by El Guapocito at Da Great White Hype
Things I found while burning my softcover edition of Moneyball.... -You go out to a bar. The hottest girl inside there is kinda sloshed and falling over you. You go back home with her and just as you enter your room, she passes out and you remember what Jesus said... don't have sex with girls that are passed out cause thats rape, brotha (Paul, letter to the Corinthians 4:24-98). So you basically thought you were going to light the lamp, when really there's no action to be had.Well, this is kinda like that, except you can get a lot more use out of an Xbox 360 ...

March is For Mailing It In
Published 3/4/2008 by stoeten at Drunk Jays Fans
... Not to steal Fire Joe Morgan's shtick any more than we already do-- especially after they just nailed some petty douchebag on his schadenfreude over Jeremy Brown's retirement-- but holy shit! Back in December FJM pointed out how both ...

Can Of Corn
Published 3/5/2008 by Texas Gal at Center Field
... Why you should watch the Boston Red Sox. As if you needed more reasons. [Refrigerator Logic] Moneyball is such a failure! [Fire Joe Morgan] Farewell, Fenway coke bottles. We barely knew ye. ...

"Joe Maddon Is A 2.4 Gigahertz Linksys Router"
Published 3/11/2008 by redsock at The Joy of Sox
It's not even mid-March and the guys at FJM are in crisp, mid-season form. ... They're bringing it like Pedro, circa 1999.

25 things guaranteed* to happen in baseball in 2008
Published 4/1/2008 by Pizza Cutter at Statistically Speaking
... or so.  This, like everything else that Oakland does, will be cited as evidence that Moneyball doesn’t work. ...