Newsmaker: Indie rock’s fantasy baseball king

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 Newsmaker: Indie rock’s fantasy baseball king
Stephen Malkmus is known for many things. He’s the former frontman of seminal indie rock group Pavement. He has released four quality solo records with his band The Jicks since Pavement broke up in 1999 — the latest of which, Real Emotional Trash , came out in March to mass critical acclaim. But there’s something you probably don’t know about Malkmus: He’s a sports fanatic and ... [link]

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Monday Grab Bag
Published 4/14/2008 by Stoeten at Drunk Jays Fans
... Pavement made a really incredible first record and then a bunch of other good ones too, and then Steven Malkmus went bonkos and broke up the band to became an NL only fantasy baseball freak with a hard-on for Dustin McGowan. At least, according to my loose interpretation of an article in the National Post. ...

Stephen Malkmus: Indie rock’s fantasy baseball king
Published 4/15/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Stephen Malkmus: Indie rock’s fantasy baseball king (Do Not Feed The) Royster...mainly because he was a blasted DH for 4 games in 1987! NP Frank Thomas was hitting up a storm last week. SM I know. I didn’t pick him up either because he’s a DH. You can only put him in the utility slot. It was kind of frustrating that he didn’t have any position. But yeah, I prefer the National League, myself. To me, there are just a lot more young prospects that are playing. I don’t know the AL as well, of course. It just seems like all the hysteria’s over there for the young pitchers, in the ...

I Finished My Taxes Edition of the Fantasy Sports Tidbits!
Published 4/15/2008 by derrick eckardt at RotoNation
... Newsmaker: Indie rock’s fantasy baseball king (National Post) - Musician Steven Malkmus is a big fantasy baseball fan. He’s such a big fan that he even did an interview talking about it. Great read. ...

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