Links of the Day 8/4/11

I guess all you locals are excited about Donovan McNabb starting practice today with the Vikings.

Speaking of quarterbacks, Joey Harrington was hit by a car while on his bike.

I haven't mentioned it, but I am sure you heard... Randy Moss is hanging it up. His smarts and work ethic will surely land him a successful post playing career

I do not care for the New York Jets. Tattoos are fine, douchey tattoos are not.

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Champions League
Viktoria Plzen 3, Rosenborg 2 - Is it ironic that RBK were eliminated by a team called "Viktoria"?
MLB
New York 18, Chicago 7 - Kind of nice to see this happen to someone else for a change.
Minnesota 11, California 5 - 5 homers! They won't hit another for a week.

Hey, look at what the Reds did.

The Cincinnati Reds played the Houston Astros today. Not all that noteworthy to anyone, outside of maybe the Reds and Astros. The Reds, however, wanted to do some interesting stuff. Take a look at the play log from their game. I have highlighted a couple of the plats below.
D Willis homered to right.
(Dontrelle Willis? He's alive? And hitting homeruns? For the Reds?)
B Arroyo ran for Y Alonso.
(Not to be outdone, Bronson Arroyom another pitcher, is introduced to the basepaths. How do you think Yonder Alonso feels about this turn of events?)


The Reds may not be playing very well this year, but at least the team is sort of interesting. Dusty Baker, man.

Links of the Day 8/3/11

Good afternoon! Staying out of trouble, are we?

Which name on this list surprises you the most? I say FP Santangelo.

In Europe, they call this "Gamesmanship"

The Twins and the Nationals probably had the weirdest deadline dealings this year.

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MLB
New York 6, Chicago 0 - This game was called early, which is too bad because the Whiteys were definitely coming back.
California 5, Minnesota 1 - I usually put the team's location instead of the nickname on these things. The Angels are kind of a fly in the ointment.

Cooking with Ryan: Spanish rice frittata

Frittata. Say it. I like saying it like I'm Doctor Evil. Fir-tta-ta. Excellent.
Basically it's a fancy omelet, but really, it's not. It has egg, milk and cheese, sure, but it also had bell peppers, onions, spinach, parsley, tomato, salsa and, of course, rice. It wasn't really a challenge to put together. Saute the peppers and onions and mix it all together before baking it. That's reallyall there was to it. I had it with ketchup.
So there was milk and cheese in the frittata, and I had it with a glass of milk. If you don't mind, I am going to go process some dairy.

Links of the Day 8/2/11

I did some home maintenance today, patching a spot on my ceiling. It looked like the Pillsbury Doughboy exploded in my living room.

Who should have done more at the deadline?

 Flippin' Philadelphia.

The Cardinals have been insane (via Deadspin)

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MLB
New York 3, Chicago 2 - wouldn't it be funny if, just once, the AL Central did something against the Yankees?

Jim Bowden in unconscionably stupid

Jim Bowden was once a MLB GM. He took over Steve Phillips' job as dumbass former GM providing insight at ESPN. In his career as GM, he worked for the Reds and Nationals, acquiring players like Ken Griffey Jr. and Alfonso Soriano. The teams he helmed were generally not so good. He has taken teams to the post season only twice despite having GM'd a team for well over a decade, It should be noted that the Reds swept the World Series before he got there.
One of his issues was always that he was brash and a little cocky. He made a lot of moves and believed he was right no matter what evidence there was proving him wrong. No greater measure of his hubris came than this weekend, when he was the sole media figure who kept filling up the rumor mill with Span-Storen rumors. Please, review his tweets
As I said earlier this week Denard Span -Drew Storen deal will go down it's a matter of time:secondary players have to be agreed to
Nats saved 1.1 to 1.3 m on Hairston deal, 2.47m on Marquis deals and got two decent prospects in both deals...Span next
Twins insisting on STOREN without substitution.. along with Bernadina and Lombardozzi in package for SPAN...both sides grinding #TRADES
Breaking down the Nationals two deals and the one they're about to make
And then finally, today...
Nats-Twins Span-Storen deal failed not because of the Nationals refusal to include Storen... but instead the 2nd player Lombardozzi

He has an Insider blog, and he had TWO posts breaking down the Span-Storen trade, as thought it were inevitable. Instead of saying that it didn't look like it was going to happen, he chose to become silent on the matter almost all day yesterday. Actually, on his restricted insider blog, he did say this

The Minnesota Twins are expected to acquire Drew Storen, the young closer from the Washington Nationals, in a multiplayer deal in which the Nationals will acquire center fielder Denard Span. The deal might be expanded so that Stephen Lombardozzi and Roger Bernadina go to the Twins, while Tom Stuifbergen goes back to the Nationals. The Twins can then make Ben Revere their everyday center fielder and Storen can be their inexpensive closer for 2012 and beyond. The Nationals would finally have an answer to their long-term need in center field by acquiring Span."
Awesome work.

Of course, as someone said, if the Twins and nationals were haggling over Stephen Lombardozzi, it's a discredit to both teams. The fact that Jim Bowden believes that the teams really were bickering over a future utility man discredits him.

Links of the Day 8/1/11

It's the 30th anniversary of MTV. It's also the 4th anniversary of the 35W bridge collapse. Seems like yesterday...

In a lighter note, this just seems sort of funny to me.

Free agency grades, including the Colts resigning Joseph Addai. Apparently, Peyton Manning likes Addai, making one of us.

Good luck finding Versus on your dial EVER AGAIN.

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Nothing since last night, chums.