Defensive Indifference

And if you didn’t know that, it’s time to crawl out from under that rock. There’s pretty much no debate here, the Mets absolutely robbed the Twins. Here’s my take at AOL.
Rather than more analysis, here’s a link dump of other people’s work on the deal:

Nate Silver has the PECOTA for Santana. [Baseball Prospectus]
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It is with a heavy heart that I pass on the news of Tina Cervasio’s imminent departure from NESN. It seems like only yesterday that I first beheld her beaming visage on my television, and was immediately caught off guard by her eager and gregarious nature, not to mention her fantastic interviewing skills and […]

Deadspin ran this earlier today and it’s too good to pass up, even with the pro-Obama stuff at the end. “Well, I would probably have to, um, alternate sides.”
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And, OK, I’m not politically inclined in the least, especially when it comes to the two […]

Via FanHouse and Geoff Baker’s Seattle Times blog comes the news that Erik Bedard, as long anticipated, is about to become a Mariner. Seattle has called back Adam Jones from the Venezuelan Winter League, in which the playoffs are underway. That’s a rare move and something the Mariners wouldn’t do unless they had a really […]

Yes, John Kruk was on a full episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force Sunday night. No it didn’t make any sense. Did you honestly expect anything different?

Carl: Kruk from the Phils? Dude, I hit you with a battery in ‘89, you remember.
Kruk: D-Cell, yeah I still got the scar, and I still use that […]

This article over at AOL poses an intriguing fantasy keeper league dilemma: who to take out of the top young pitcher trio of Joba Chamberlain, Clay Buchholz, and Phil Hughes. To me there’s no clear choice, but Herrera concludes that Joba The Hutt is the best bet based on his lights-out late season […]