• If you check out just one of today's links, please make it be this one. (And I cannot believe that nobody's showed me this site before, not that I remember anyway.)
• My old pal Tracy Ringolsby is fantastically right: Allowing suspended major leaguers to play in the minors is a farce, plain and simple. Does Tracy even need to explain why?
• Really nice interview with Jeff Pearlman, who doesn't know an iota about sabermetrics but does know a great deal about writing and athletes and human nature.
• Did Joel Zumaya really just set the record for fastest pitch, ever?
• There must be some old baseball guys somewhere who think Joey Votto should keep all this messy stuff to himself. Well, the heck with them.
• Jay Jaffe on Juan Pierre, Manny Ramirez, and why the Dodgers don't seem to have missed Manny all that much.
• As Peter Abraham cannily notes, last winter the Yankees spent $423.5 million. After 70 games last season, the Yankees were 37-33. And after 70 games this season? 38-32.
• Funny stuff from Amazin' Avenue about David Wright's BABiP.
• I should have grabbed this last week, but Gordon McGrath's piece about the (now) late Dusty Rhodes is still worth reading.
• Having tried -- and failed, miserably -- to play baseball the last couple of summers, I appreciate this John Updike poem all the more.
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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.