Someone not named Will writes that baseball is inherently conservative thus rendering my working thesis "Conservatives are Inherently Baseballs" moot. Makes sense considering the unbelievably powerful union, employment of immigrants, sacrifice flies and the profit sharing. But we gotta get rid of the "suicide squeeze", totally sounds gay. Oh, and who needs umps, the market will decide. Hands off, Ken Burns.

I don't know much about sports. Even less about football, but occasionally I get wrangled into playing in a Fantasy Football league. Yesterday was the draft...so how did I do?

This guy was my favorite player on the '87 Twins.

My little contribution to NFL.com's piece on this happening.

Now he can fire Billy Martin in Heaven.

... In Comic Sans?

One of my favorite nerd blogs is The Science of Sport. It's by a couple of guys from South Africa, and topics have ranged from doping in cycling, to Castor Semenya and the benefits afforded by her gender.

Not only am I excited for the World Cup to kick off, but the ads have been amazing as well. Especially when you hire Lucas Films to help!

I don't believe in grading a draft immediately after it happens (you should really wait about three seasons) -- and this year's is all about delayed gratification.

Spoiler Alert - It's not the Yankees.

We;ll find out in a few hours how off I am. If they even pick *one* of these players I'll consider this mock a rousing success.

A neat little compilation of stadium implosions from, of course, Mental Floss

Allen High School, located in a growing suburb of Dallas, has approved the construction of a $60 million new stadium to house their football team that will break ground next month.

About a boy and his Wonderlic...

Funny analysis of Mr. Burns' starting 9 using baseball nerd-core stat WAR (Wins Above Replacement). Smithers did a horrible job picking this team...

Honesty in sideline reporting.

Quick video showing how fast some football players are compared to average people. (by average people, they mean one guy wearing a suit). Still amazing.

Let's replace shop with classes on how to handle fire arms. We can call it pre-army education and ensure that children are only shot intentionally.

Last One - Buck O'Neil. Not much of a singer he says ... sounds pretty good to me.

George Brett's "True Story" (again ... bad language)