I was a mere 3 months old when this card was issued, but Oscar Gamble has been the inspiration for the name of one of my two annual roto teams for the last 6 years. That team is part of the storied Phat-o-matic league, a roto league of ruthless passive-aggressively polite yet cold-blooded […]

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I think it’s safe to say that James, your host of The Grand Narrative, has a bit of a passive aggressive relationship with putting sex on his blog. Takes one to know one. At any rate, let’s just say these days GN is in the mood, and this post about Japanese Schoolgirl Sex Codes is […]

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This guy is wanted in Thailand for stealing 200,000 baht from the Ladprao branch of the Government Savings Bank (GSB) in Bangkok. This is the actual police sketch.

He looks a little familiar but I can’t be sure from where. It’s either Ultraman or the guy I just saw ride by my apartment on a motorcycle.
(via Pink […]

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Who are the worst players with starting jobs in the majors? Dayn Perry, who, judging from his column photo would appear to be the Coldplay of baseball writing, has a bizzaro All-star lineup of yuck proportions. The Giants lead the way with three starters on the team in Ray Durham, Rich Aurilia, and Omar Vizquel. […]

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Two links here. The first is a Hardball Times interview with the Colonel Sanders of Sabermetrics himself Bill James. The interview is part fluff/part meat and the results are varied. One of the more interesting tidbits is that James will launch a new Web site any day now called Bill James Online, where he will, […]

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