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Today's links were compiled while both despising the intentional walk and thinking that if they're going to give some teams a four-day All-Star break, they should give all the teams a four-day break ...

• If you're in Kansas City this weekend and you want to join Rany Jazayerli and a few dozen of his closest friends at Kauffman Stadium, here's how (and yes, I'm sorry that I won't be among the dozens).

• Joe Posnanski thinks MLB blew a great chance to properly honor Stan Musial, and I suppose I agree. (And Joe also despises the intentional walk, at least in the All-Star Game.)

• This is pretty sweet.

• Repoz's intro for this one is classic Repoz: "Jeter holds off another one ..."

• OK, I've seen enough: go ahead and put this guy in the Hall of Fame, just for the sake of coolness.

• Alex Belth eulogizes Paul Hemphill, who passed last weekend. I wish I had something to say about Hemphill, but I've never read his baseball novel even though I've had it for years. I need to start reading books before the author dies.

• Does Robert Redford have a "Neyer moment" in HBO's new Ted Williams documentary? Ron Kaplan checks. (By the way, I apologize for not having seen the movie yet. I will this weekend, and will report back next week, especially if someone gives me a kick during the Tuesday chat.)

• If you'll indulge me, a bit more follow-up on the Waxahachie Swap:

First, I still can't find my copy of "The Book," but as co-author TangoTiger recently notes, in the book they didn't consider the odd codicil to Rule 3.03, which says that a pitcher may change to another position only once per inning. This makes the Swap a wash, generally.

And second, another commenter added a Waxahachie Swap involving Chuck Tanner to my list, giving Tanner two Swaps and moving him into a tie for fourth place in the all-time Waxahachie standings.

Keep 'em coming, friends; I haven't had so much fun since the old days when I would devote column after column to the game's most obscure arcana. Remember? When I had a few hundred readers? (You know who you are.)

• Video of the Week: Jon Stewart on Lenny Dykstra.