February 10, 2012
Link-O-Rama
• If only I could have paid off my losing Super Bowl bet the same way as Maria Menounos.
• This post-Super Bowl column in the Boston Globe is everything wrong with sportswriting.
• I wrote a guest column for Baseball Prospectus, which has been my dream for 15 years.
• KFAN is the eighth-highest rated sports talk radio station in the country.
• I sometimes feel guilty about Link-O-Rama being sexist, so here's something for the ladies.
• I'm starting to think some of these "parents groups" should be more parenting.
• Finally, conclusive evidence that I've spoken to a woman.
• This week's "Gleeman and The Geek" guest, Lindsay Guentzel, was chosen as a finalist for the MLB Fan Cave contest, so go vote for her a few thousand times.
• Jose Reyes' dreadlocks sold for $10,200 on eBay. Seriously.
• I'm actually kind of surprised it took this long.
• Obviously the solution is to start using books as toilet paper.
• Just in case you need a pep talk after a long week, Coach Taylor is always here for you:
Can't lose, obviously.
• I've been watching the Starz series Boss on Netflix. It can get a little too cheesy at times, but Kelsey Grammer is great in the lead role and the show is definitely worth watching.
• And after mentioning Boss on Twitter one of the supporting actors randomly replied to me.
• We're doing very important things at Hardball Talk.
• Ozzie Gullen, mocking Baseball Think Factory regulars since 2012.
• Old habits die hard, even when your entire writing career has been spent on the internet.
• How many episodes of a new television show should you watch before you give up on it?
• This is the best decision rabbis have made since expelling me from Hebrew school.
• I'd love to have sat in on the meetings where this horrendous idea was approved.
• It took one week for former Harvard point guard and NBA journeyman Jeremy Lin to become every Knicks fan's favorite player.
• I'm not really the target demographic for Smash, but I look forward to running into Katharine McPhee at the NBC holiday party.
• Kendrick Perkins needs to learn that the key is being the source of the negativity.
• I moved out of St. Paul at age 17, so obviously this happened.
• And to think, this man dated Official Fantasy Girl of AG.com Mila Kunis for many years.
• Something tells me Terry Ryan won't be joining Twitter any time soon.
• Finally, this week's AG.com-approved music video is Basia Bulat signing "Before I Knew":