Above all else, this will be remembered as the week that Dayton Moore v. Insanity Wolf came into our lives, probably the single funniest blog post I've read all year. Meanwhile, earlier this week, there was an out-of-nowhere Greinke to the Brewers rumor, which I first heard about via Schaum on Twitter. For the Brewer response, click here.
Enjoy the rest of the links, which are sundry and numerous. You'll find that the conpletely reasonable Pirates rebuild continues to draw bizarre criticism, that hitter/pitcher matchup stats suck, that Brandon Inge has bad knees and all kinds of stuff from around the globe. I'm on the road this weekend, so you're spared my weird baseball speculative fiction for the time being.
- Greinke to Brewers Rumors? - Brew Crew Ball
- Fire Dayton Moore: Let's have a duel: Insanity Wolf vs Dayton Moore
- Peas in a Pod: Sam Runion and Tim Murphy | Kings of Kauffman | A Kansas City Royals Blog
- This is gonna hurt, but the Royals should at least look at trading Joakim Soria | Mellinger's Blog on the Royals and Baseball
- Third Base in the AL Central - Royals Authority
- Nick Sloan's Official Web Site: Zack Greinke On Marriage
- Smoke, fire, trade rumors and the Royals | Mellinger's Blog on the Royals and Baseball
- Royals Review on Twitter
Baseball:
- Perry Hill Speaks Out - Bucs Dugout
- Which tells us more: The last 7 at bats or 7 at bats against this pitcher? - Beyond the Box Score
- Changing the Giants' Organizational Philosophy - McCovey Chronicles
- Travis Hafner, Homeruns and Andy Marte - Let's Go Tribe!
- Smackdown: Damon vs. Abreu - SweetSpot by Rob Neyer - ESPN
- Adam Wainwright and Late-Blooming Fascism - Viva El Birdos
- The Productive Out: Re-Alignment: Fixing Baseball, Part 1
- The Challenges Ahead for Hoyer | FanGraphs Baseball
- 2010 Projections: Bill James Annual edition - Viva El Birdos
- Both of Brandon Inge's Knees to Receive Surgery - Bless You Boys
- Joe Nathan's Not Losing His Fastball, Is He? - Twinkie Town
- Top 20 Minnesota Twins Prospects for 2010 - Minor League Ball
- Living in the Limelight: Gregg Zaun's Free Agent Value - Driveline Mechanics
- The Waterfall At Angels Stadium Is Not A Public Swimming Pool - Fans - Deadspin
- Jason Bay vs. Matt Holliday, Bill James vs. devil_fingers: Free Agent Projection Showdown - Driveline Mechanics
Grab Bag:
- CSI | A Growing Hysteria
- Will David Cameron turn out to be a one-term wonder? | Andrew Rawnsley | Comment is free | The Observer
- Shot, Frozen and Burnt: Sweden Turning Stray Rabbits Into Biofuel - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
- The Roman Catholic and Anglican churches: Unleashing the Counter-Reformation | The Economist
- YouTube - Chris Rea - Texas
- Nov. 1, 2009: the greatest sports day ever? - Inhistoric
- How to fix the WNBA. - By Josh Levin - Slate Magazine
- Nunavut’s economic dreams are icebound - The Globe and MailDown Under at the forefront - The Globe and Mail
- Can Buffalo Ever Come Back? by Edward L. Glaeser, City Journal Autumn 2007
- Training: Overtraining, or "What I See in High Schools Every Day" - Driveline Mechanics
- "BOK Appeal": Will the BOK Center Really Help Attendance in Tulsa? - Swish Appeal
- SELENA GOMEZ TO STAR IN WHAT BOYS WANT, A MOVIE WITH THE SAME CONCEPT AS A CHAPPELLE'S SHOW SKETCH | FilmDrunk - Movie news for ex-cons, sex-cons, and Genghis Khan
- Down Under at the forefront - The Globe and Mail