When I have to work every day, I want a day off. When I have days off, I want to work. Go figure ...

* This is just outstanding news: in June, the USPS will issue a pair of stamps featuring one of my favorite subjects depicted by one of my favorite artists (and if that wasn't enough, in July we'll have a Calvin & Hobbes stamp!).

* I haven't read all of Baseball America's top 10 baseball books of 2009, but I've read half of them and can second BA's emotion (and I downloaded one of them to my new Kindle, the greatest invention since purple football uniforms.

* Over at Baseball Analysts, Jeremy Greenhouse is up to more of his Pitchf/x tricks (and speaking of Baseball Analysts, man oh man do I love stuff like this).

* And this I like, too ... in large part because I appreciate the truth in advertising.

* Last week it was worth remembering Roberto Clemente. And so Craig Calcaterra did.

* Everything you always wanted to know (and more!) about Brooklyn's baseball wall.

* I don't have any real quibbles with Dayn Perry's five worst deals this offseason, except I'm still inclined to cut the Diamondbacks a little slack regarding their deal with the Tigers and Yankees.

* Typically, a non-fiction book written for a general audience will run something like 80,000-100,000 words. Joe Posnanski has written a blog post about the Royals in the 0's that runs more than 9,000 words. That's right. Just for "fun," Joe's written roughly one-tenth of a book about the decade's worst baseball team. I got to 2006 before I started feeling really depressed and had to quit reading.

* On a far, far happier note, Bill Baer gives us the Phillies' top moments of the decade (with a great deal of documentary evidence).