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This week, Grantland launched, which Rand covered in some detail last night. This requires an official Weekend Links Policy Decision: I will not be linking to Grantland articles. Don't get me wrong, the site is really, really good - so good that I'd do nothing but post links to Grantland, if I included them. The site goes into the same category as Joe Posnanski and Steve Rushin - required reading. Here's their RSS feed, here's their Twitter feed; follow them.
On with the links:
*I really enjoyed Robert Lipsyte's memoir excerpt about his encounters with Bob Costas. I find Costas to be kind of a fascinating character - he's obviously a wonderful and likeable character, only he has kind of Mike Lupica streak in him that sometimes seems to respond to any slight, no matter how small, with bomb-throwing.
*Parker Hageman often studies the Twins videos and is able to explain, with examples, of why a certain Twins player is struggling. This week, he's examined Danny Valencia, and we've reached a first - Parker has no idea what's going wrong. This is almost more exciting than usual!
*The other Twins links for this week: John Bonnes talks a little about Run Expectancy, which is always good; Hageman looks at Delmon Young, and this time, has some answers; and Alexi Casilla's sudden hot streak is studied, to see if it can actually keep going.
That'll do it for me; now please, enjoy your Saturday, despite there being no Stanley Cup or NBA Finals game tonight, for some stupid reason. Someone should schedule these things better.
