• You gotta love this photo (unless you're a Twins fan, maybe).
• If you didn't like Bobby Scales already, you will after listening to this piece on NPR.
• As Craig Brown notes, while Ryan Zimmerman's 30-game hitting streak is really little more than a footnote, his overall performance this season suggests a breakout year.
• You think ballplayers these days aren't superstitious? Check this out.
• A rare cross-post ... Paul Lukas is right: The camo madness must stop!
• Nice piece from the Times last week about a young slugger who's trying to follow the same path as Manny Ramirez (but won't be anything like a first-round draft pick).
• Also in the Times, Dan Rosenheck goes to great lengths figuring out if A-Rod really benefited from pitch-tipping (assuming of course that it actually happened at all).
• Do you ever wonder who's in the Baseball Writers Association of America? Well, wonder no more; Maury Brown's got the whole list -- all 725 names.
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Rob Neyer
Neyer is a senior writer at ESPN.com. He began his career with legendary baseball author (and now Red Sox executive) Bill James, then joined Stats Inc. and wrote about MLB, the NFL and the NBA. Neyer joined ESPN.com in 1996, and it's believed that he's written more words for the site than anybody.
Neyer moved to Kansas City in 1976, just in time for the Royals' first division title, and fell in love almost immediately. He attended the University of Kansas the same four years as Danny Manning, and is now happy to wait another 20 years for the Jayhawks' next championship.
