Items of note
The maelstrom of hot-stove nonsense is upon us. Marty Noble tosses out a slew of names in an MLB.com article. Some would be OK, some wouldn’t. Depends on the cost for most of them, really.
Neil Genzlinger at the New York Times gets a bit sanctimonious over Fox’s coverage of the NFL from Afghanistan. I feel like I’ve read a billion stories bashing athletes and broadcasters for comparing sports to war, and not a single one has ever included the perspective of an actual soldier who’s offended.
People compare stuff to war all the time — the most elementary card game is called “War.” I’d like to imagine the troops are smart enough to distinguish real war from metaphoric war and have more important things to worry about than being offended by Fox’s coverage.
A visibly undead Sammy Sosa surfaced this weekend. Color Omar Minaya intrigued.
Baseball America published its annual top-10 list of Mets prospects. Their site is currently screwy, so here’s the list from Mets Minor League Blog. Anyway, I try not to get too nitpicky about this stuff, because though BA does a great job tracking prospects, trying to order them in any specific way seems like an exercise in futility. Also, beware of spin.
