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  Circus Contraption
  The Drones
  Bad merger coverage – hitsville
  Five arguments against the Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger – hitsville
  White Stripes – Let’s Build A Home
White Stripes – I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother’s Heart

The ‘Base’ Metaphor Explained

Spanking the Future – mmorford
Are you in sufficient awe of just what the hell you can do with that thing?

Rep. Ackerman on Madoff Fraud

  Head Of AEG Live On LiveNation-Ticketmaster Deal – forbes via hitsville
  Black–Eyed Snakes
  The Budos Band
The Undertones – Teenage Kicks

Clubs are scared of Manny – mkriegel
Injury Tool – fantasypitchfx
Baseball contracts can be off the wall – latimes
Last clean player, please bring the flag – kkaufman
Yankees should probably just leave Jeter at short – rneyer
Pitching Perspectives with Rick Peterson: Understanding the Epidemic of Youth Pitching Injuries – fullcountpitch
How will Girardi’s style change in ’09? – sny
The New New New New Barry Zito – baybridgebaseball

The Old Wisdom – jcarroll
It’s so much easier to understand politics if you’ve been to junior high.

Are We Going to Buy the Bezzle? – bmiller dailykos

Pitch sequence: High fastball then curveball – hbtimes
Confusion, or collusion, in free-agent market? – latimes
Theo Epstein interview – boston

The Radishes – Sophia EP
Shakin’ in my Boots: A TX Rock-n-Roll Collection
Billboardís analysis of the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger – hitsville
Satriani Lawyers Plan to Serve Coldplay Lawsuit at the Grammys – motherjones

AN Visits with MLB.com’s Mychael Urban Part I  Part II – athleticsnation
Dodgers have options, but Manny may not – krosenthal
Who will be the next Rays? – tverducci
Positions of interest among AL teams – bolney

The retroactive Super Bowl running diary – thesportsguy
What do recruiting rankings mean anyway? – scout
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EMI death watch? – hitsville
Did Apple really lose the iTunes pricing war? – hitsville
Elvis Presley – First Time Birmingham – blogstoned
Estrus 100% Apeshit Rock Sampler
Norton Records – Rolling Stones singles

Aging Gracefully: With Salt and Patience, an Iowa Couple Makes World-Class Prosciutto – nytimes

  Still Small Voice And The Joyful Noise
  DRM or no, file-sharing dwarfs legitimate digital sales – hitsville
  The DRM fight isnít over yet – hitsville
  Mysterious Bob Log III reveals all – tucsoncitizen
  Bob Log III – My Shit is Perfect – vimeo
MGMT – This Must be the Place

Ballparks in Winter – homerderby
When is Mannyís endgame? – atbat
Cold reality check for remaining free agents – tverducci
Heath Bell and Arbitration – itmightbedangerous
Roger Clemens is Teflon no more – chicagotribune
Warren Savage On: Moneyball 2009 – electronicsweekly
Strikeouts are Fascist. (Walks, too) – themockingbird
Red Sox efficient, creative with free agent cash – msnbc

A Cheese Primer – chow
Slow down for shanks – sfgate

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold – rebert

Can cryogenic cooling miraculously improve car parts, sports equipment, and musical instruments? – straightdope

Questions for Sports Economist Andrew Zimbalist – freakonomics

Rules for next year’s BCS critics – usatoday

Let Freedom Ring: Busting the Myth of the Salary Cap – bbprospectus
The Going Rate != Intrinsic Value – squawkingbaseball
Willie, Bloomquist and the Dunn – joeposnanski
Loyalty a Foreign Substance in Baseball – mchass
Braves’ offseason of mediocrity – ajc
Mark Teixeira saga sours Red Sox on Scott Boras – bostonherald
The Cubs – blogmaverick
Hot Stove Daily: Oakland Athletics – jpassan
Henderson, Rice earn Hall passes – mlb

2006 : The Drifters

Some players in compensation-pick purgatory – bolney
Dodgers are playing the Manny Ramirez game perfectly – latimes
Gammons’s take – boston
Old guard squeezed in new market – tverducci
Moneyball Comes Full Circle – jonahkeri
Citi Field: Where Homeruns Go To Die – amazinavenue
Romero Joins a Unique Group – mchass
Pettitte not happy with Yankees right now – newsday
The great divide – marinersblog
‘Frustrated’ Chipper questions Bravesí dealings with Smoltz – ajc
Cox, others react to Smoltzís exit – ajc
Sweeney hopes to play one more year – royals

2008 : The Death of High Fidelity
2006 : Priceless