Sorry, but since it's still only Wednesday I'm going to lead and close with a few more bites of Big Mac.

* Posnanski says it's time to forgive Mark McGwire, Bernie Miklasz had had enough of the cynics and Fungoes runs through McGwire's testimony, line by line.

* Oh, and one more thing about McGwire and Posnanski: Yesterday, Big Mac called JoePo. Just called him up, out of the blue, and they talked.

* In case yesterday's link-in-passing escaped your mouse, here's a great little primer on Ultimate Zone Rating.

* How lucky were the Yankees in 2009? According to Was Watching, pretty lucky.

* I don't know, maybe this is just for fanboys like me, but I sure dig Wezen-Ball's efforts to calculate the wins and losses of Charlie Brown's baseball team.

* This is pretty nifty: via Biz of Baseball, an interactive salary database.

* What do Hall of Fame voters undervalue and overvalue? Relative to winning baseball games? Sky Andrechek can tell you.

* I'm grateful to Craig for fisking Canseco's reaction to the big news, because it means I don't have to.

* Tangotiger points out something that I somehow missed: Bud Selig almost certainly knew that Mark McGwire was using steroids as early as 1993. Hrrrmmm.