My friend Adam sent me the following link and called it “the greatest thing in the history of the Internet.”
Here is what you do:
Click the mouse to drop the penguin off his glacial ledge.
Click again to swing your bat.
Enjoy. Yeah, I ripped it. Hope you weren’t planning on getting any work done for a few hours.
Excuse me if you’ve heard this one before, but George Steinbrenner is out of his bird. Bob Klapisch has a piece at ESPN today about the madness of King George. This is not new territory here, and we are bound to see much more of this kind of article during the coming season. Klapisch praises the calming influence of Joe Torre and Brian Cashman (can you imagine the headlines if and when Steinbrenner fires Torre?). Cashman’s buddy, Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane, doesn’t hate George either:
“What you have to remember is the Yankees don’t spend more than they make. There’s obviously a method to their madness. The real evil is spending what you can’t afford,” Beane said. “As much as the Yankees spend, they still only have a 25-man roster, so that creates opportunities for us. We can trade for a guy like Chris Hammond and have the Yankees pay a significant amount of his salary.
“It’s like a shark feeding on a swordfish carcass. You have to choose from the chunks of flesh that fall off.”
There will be a lot of fleshy third basemen available soon.
Rick Peterson is blinding the Mets with science. The former pitching coach of the Oakland A’s is known for his motto: “In God We Trust. All others must have data.” Peterson currently has some of the younger Mets pitchers strapped up with reflexive markers–which are connected to high-speed cameras and computers–to evaluate their pitching motions, at Dr. James Andrews’ American Sports Medicine Institute. Very interesting stuff, indeed. In case you missed it, here is Jonah Keri’s highly informative intereview with Peterson for Baseball Prospectus last year.
At the same time, deep in the heart of Florida, Jose Reyes and Kaz Matsui—the Mets’ new double play duo—are working out for the first time together.
Meanwhile, the Yankees are talking with Scott Boras about signing first baseman Travis Lee to a minor league deal.
Six days until pitchers and catchers report for the Yankees; eight days for the Mets.
