AAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!  Do not want!  Go the f%#! away, 2007!

for a 4-bedroom house in Maryland?

Thank you for doing a baseball specific DLD.

... but I prefer peppered moths.

You picket.

What do you do if the Writers Guild of America goes on strike?

Tim Goodman offers a preview look as the late shows return tonight with and without writers.

Leno used to be hip and edgy back in the 80's when he was a guest on Letterman but, man, has he been unwatchable since he took over The Tonight Show. I might have to take a peek for auld lang syne.

Guess that makes me a scab.

top 5 teams.

Devito-Ma: Where do Yankees rank behind Rays and Redsox in prospect handbook?

Jim Callis: (3:03 PM ET ) John Manuel has kindly IMed me our Top 5: Devil Rays, Red Sox, Reds, Rangers, Yankees, in that order.

I don't see how the Yankees are top 5.

Unfortunately, HollywoodOz is going to boycott me now.

lopsided, but the other is the most even.  The Tiger trade seems more lopsided.  Willis was an All-Star and Cabrera is awesome.

Most Lopsided Trade

1. The Diamondbacks traded for A's starter Dan Haren, who could give new Arizona teammate Brandon Webb a run for the Cy Young as the two go back-to-back for the next three years. Maybe by the end of the 2010 season, the A's and a couple of the six mostly no-name players they received in this swap will be back to competing.

Most Even Trade

1. The biggest trade of the winter, between Florida and Detroit, seems at first glance like a complete hijacking by the Tigers. Detroit landed one of the best young hitters in the game, Miguel Cabrera, and a durable mid-rotation lefty in Dontrelle Willis in the December deal. Florida ended up with a handful of prospects. But know that the Marlins, who made out fine in their last big supposedly franchise-burning swap (getting Hanley Ramirez and many others for Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell), got exactly what they wanted in this trade. Mainly, they got younger and cheaper.

Didn't the A's get younger and cheaper as well?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...

link

... are we advocating here?  

http://www.minorleagueball.com/story...

1. Carlos Gonzalez, OF, Grade B+
2. Daric Barton, 1B, Grade B+
3. Brett Anderson, LHP, Grade B+
4. Chris Carter, 1B, Grade B+ (an aggressive grade but I LOVE this guy)
5. James Simmons, RHP, Grade B
6. Henry Alberto Rodriguez, RHP, Grade B  (big-time sleeper, great arm)
7. Trevor Cahill, RHP, Grade B-
8. Aaron Cunningham, OF, Grade B-
9. Corey Brown, OF, Grade B-
10. Andrew Bailey, RHP, Grade B- (another sleeper with an aggressive grade)
11. Sean Doolittle, 1B, Grade B-
12. Javier Herrera, OF, Grade C+ (great tools, but refinement??)
13. Dan Meyer, LHP, Grade C+
14. Greg Smith, LHP, Grade C+
15. Sam Demel, RHP, Grade C+
16. Andrew Carignan, RHP, Grade C+
17. Grant Desme, OF, Grade C+
18. Travis Banwart, RHP, Grade C+
19. Josh Horton, SS, Grade C+
20. Jermaine Mitchell, OF, Grade C

Grade C guys interchangeable with some above include Jeff Baisley, Graham Godfrey, Dan Hamblin, Aaron Jenkins, Brad Kilby, Vince Mazzaro, Kevin Melillo, Cliff Pennington, Landon Powell (who could be a Grade B if he could stay healthy), Jason Ray, Richie Robnett, Justin Sellers, and the enigmatic Matt Sulentic.

Whoever did those grades seems to have no idea about the players they're grading.

Everidge has the same power numbers as Pennington? Not hardly.

Windsor has worse control than Braden? In what Bizarro World?

Myron Leslie is a second baseman? I've seen him play 1st base, 3rd base, and left field - but second? He has all the range of the 2007 version of Barry Larkin.

Gustavo Rosendo is in the system mostly to serve as interpreter for pitchers at his level that don't speak English and has never hit anything, anywhere, ever, yet according to 1stInning, he has the same talent as Everidge.

And if Brad Kilby is the ultimate strikeout pitcher, I'm Dutch.

Jose Guzman a better pitcher than Vince Mazzaro and Jason Fernandez? (head explodes)

Unfortunately, the Interactive Odor Setback Model developed by this dude isn't (yet) calibrated to tell you all how far away from me you have to move.

(Nor, to preempt FSU, can it tell you just how far away from the capitalist pigs you'll have to move to avoid the stench of the new Fremont stadium.)

I don't know if this has been mentioned earlier but Mr. Ziegler is going to be a non-roster invitee to the A's major league camp this spring.

So sayeth Scout.com. I'd link but 'tis insider content.

On the one hand, Clemens appears to want to fight the PED accusations in the court of public opinion.  He's made statements, a youtube video, and on Sunday he's gonna let Mike Wallace have at him on 60 Minutes.  Of course, at age 89 Mike may have lost a little off his fastball, but still, Clemens is resisting mightily where most other players have either remained silent or quasi-confessed.

On the other hand, as this interesting analysis suggests, if Clemens goes on TV and calls his accuser ex-trainer Brian McNamee a liar, Roger is then subject to legal action, and deposition.  It's once thing to lie to a reporter, and quite another (as a Mr. Bonds or Ms. Jones would tell you) to lie under oath.

I'm torn...I so want the self-congratulatory anti-steroid jihad to recede, yet I relish the idea of Roger Clemens being tarnished and feathered.   What's a principled reprobate to do?

it seems the poll is more relevant than I'd imagined.