Sunday Links and Coffee
Good morning! Here’s another Sunday Links and Coffee update, some links from around the baseball world to take in while you have your morning coffee and get ready for the football games.
Bud Selig has told the small market teams to spend some money. Bill Madden has the story in the Daily News. One can only imagine how painful it must have been last week for Bud Selig to tell his small-market brethren,Florida Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria and his stepson president David Samson, to pony up on the payroll in the face of major heat from the Players Association.
Selig should be happy about this. Well regarded Cuban defector Aroldis Chapman signs with…the Reds? Yep. From the Cincy Enquirer.
Who is Mark McGwire’s biggest defender? Tony LaRussa. TJ Quinn on ESPN.com. But Bob Knight comes close. He defends McGwire in this ESPN video in a way only Bob Knight can. He says: Gatorade is a performance-enhancing substance. It replaces electrolytes in the human body that are used up through extreme exercise. (ESPN disables embedding of their videos so you’ll have to click)
One year after avoiding arbitration with all ten eligible players, four Phillies filed this week.
Curt Schilling: I’ve been called a lot of things, but never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan. Whoops.
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