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I’d like to do an odds and ends piece that is basically an advanced links post on the stuff that is on my mind.

These items will not always be linked they may just be snippets of thoughts.

Ok- Round 1.

- World Baseball Classic – Awesome!  I love the internatioanl baseball and the players are into it.  If you are a baseball lover you should watch it.  If only just for the Cubans!

- Fantasy or Roto baseball-  This is the least prepared I will ever be for a fantasy baseball season.  I don’t like it and it doesn’t feel good.  I need a have a good year.  Finished out of the top 3 last year.  That can’t happen again.  I blame AOL.

- My head is spinning with online game stuff.  There are a million things going on and a million games.  The battle in my brain over quality verses quantity never stops.

- I want to be more focused in general.  Any and all tips welcome

-  I am getting married in 60 days.  Wow.  Exciting and nerve wracking worrying about everyone one else.  Lisa and I are tight as ever if not more.

- Max Kellerman is off the air.  ESPN 1050 is retarded for trying to make a national radio host out of Colin Cowherd. Colin is a blowhard douche.  You can quote me on that.

- Our content on our sites needs to get more sports like.  Get nasty,  get dirty.  It’s just more fun that way.

Spending the last three days watching baseball has been wonderful.  I want to thank Bud Selig for all these things.  If we going to blame Bud FOR EVERYTHING then we should commend him for whats happened in baseball under his watch.

So many baseball fans have a knee jerk hatred for Bud Selig.  I get it,  the media harps on and on about steriods.  I get it,  Bud was there for the strike. I GET IT,  he tried to contract two teams. OK.  It he tainted the game with crazy new ideas like the WILD CARD- I GET IT.  The fact is he did some good things.

Here is a list of the good things done on Bud’s watch.

1. The wild card. – Ask Red Sox, Marlins and Angels fans about the wild card.

2. MLB.com – You can watch any game online.  He centralized web revenue so everyone’s precisous small market teams could have cash.

3.  Labor Peace. – Yes it’s ironic that he presided over the strike but he has got the owners pulling in the same direction to avoid labor issues.  Baseball has not had a strike or a major labor outage since 1994.  That’s 15 years folks.

4.  Better ball parks and growth of the game overall.  - If you like in a town with an old CRAPPY ballpark you know how much they blow.  When you go to an HOK design park baseball just becomes better.  New Yorkers are going to be in for the shock of their lives.  We’re used to Yankee and Shea and let me tell you,  they both suck.  People will forget about aura and mystique in a heart beat.

Thanks Bud!  If you want to hire me,  I’m available.

Every Sunday since my sports conscious brain began working I have watched the Sports Reporters on ESPN.  I am now on year 20 I think?

The sets have changed and the blow hard sportswritters have changed but the shows remained essentially the same.  3 sportswritters and host talking crap  anyway.  Its my thing.

Oh sure I’ve missed it many many times,  but eith the super power of the DVR I never miss it again.  Sure this is boring a little.  BUT HERE is what I am getting at – Sunday ritual.  I have one.  We all have one.

Sunday is probably the one day of the week that we all control unequivocally.  Papers, news shows then sports.  That’s my Sunday.

What’s yours boyos?