Stan from Tacoma

you can support the man who writes DT for free and gives you hours of pleasure and pain.

What's in it for me?

thanks, jon.

craig in houston

When I get the cash, you'll have my support. Other than my own site, this is my favorite website.

I got mine today. Tremendous stuff.

Got my book last week, but Lulu hasn't delivered it yet.

I've been playing with podcasts recently and found some older MLB Radio casts. One was McCourt's press conference on the DePodesta firing (Oct 31). I was not impressed. Constant stutters and evasive answers.

The second was Colletti's press conference after being hired (Nov 16). He was articulate, gave pretty good answers, and not too many evasions (though it probably helped that he'd been in the job for less than 24 hours). What I liked was his comment around signing free agents to long contracts that would block some of the newbies in the minors.

Now, if we can just get 25 more donations this hour, we promise, we'll never run that Peter Paul and Mary clip again.

"no, really honey, I'm NOT gambling anymore!"

Looking forward to reading.

All that said, thanks Jon, you do a great job and it is my pleasure to help support what you do here at DT.

Another vote in favor of the Vin biography. Actually I'd love to hear a radio segment similar to what Bob Edwards used to do with Red Barber at 7:40am every Friday morning. That was extremely good radio.

And I'm sure I'll enjoy reading it myself. My time on the blog only goes back about a year (or a little less) so there's lots of pieces in there I haven't seen.

http://tinyurl.com/cyo6z

http://baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=4665

I also keep telling myself that it's not entirely unreasonable that Angelina Jolie would love to have a threeway with me and my wife and that my wife would think that it's a good idea.

When he's healthy, he hits. I'm not expecting a .900+ OPS, but in the low to mid .800s wouldn't be unreasonable.

Now how many AB's will he wind up with?

Anyway, thanks to all of you.

I am shocked that Vin has not been the subject of a biography. In the early 60's there was an excellent long article about him in Sports Illustrated, but as far as I know no full length biography has been published. If I lived in LA, I would take on the task myself. I am not a good enough writer to write such a book, but if the book was accompanied by a cd of Vin's play by play, who cares what I would write anyway: I am sure people would discard the book and listen to the cd.

Stan from Tacoma

I will agree with Sheehan that position is the big issue. Nomar has to stay healthy and play at the high-end of expectations just to match the Choi/Saenz platoon. Ugh.

31 - The difference between Kent and Garciaparra really boils down to injury history.