Morning, everyone - and it’s Saturday morning, which is currently making me think of WCCO Radio. Thinking back, it seems that the “Good Neighbor” was the background noise to my entire childhood, but those memories are especially powerful from Saturday mornings. Bruce Hagevik (an Ortonville native!) or Jeff McKinney doing the news, Denny Long and Charlie Boone in later years… given this, I’d invite you to make Boone and Erickson the soundtrack to today’s post. All I need now is to hear Roger Erickson sonorously bellowing the school closings, and I’m pretty sure I could time-warp back to 1989.

On with the links:

*One of the great things about these here Internets: when somebody in Michigan writes a story about Wild defenseman John Scott, I can actually read it. And now I know something about Scott, besides the fact that he’s nine feet tall and that once in 1933 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, he wrestled a Russian bear to a draw.

*It seems unfair to just link to Joe Posnanski twice every week, but I can’t help it. First, he explains why trading baseball draft picks is a bad idea (two words: Scott Boras) and what might be done about it, then he ruminates on NBC’s hiring of cheap-shot artist Rodney Harrison. Both of those posts were from Friday only. That’s one day’s output. I enjoy reading Joe Posnanski so much that I’m pretty sure I should send him some money, but other than buying three or four copies of his forthcoming book, I can’t quite figure out how.

*Proving that the best way to make the TV ratings for the Stanley Cup better would be to have all 30 teams involved, the ratings in both local markets for Games 1 and 2 were astronomical. About 43 percent of the people watching TV in either city were watching hockey, those nights. I’d be more impressed, but I’m pretty sure I remember the Wild drawing a couple of 67 percent shares locally during the 2003 Western Conference finals. So, uh, eat that, Detroit and Pittsburgh?

*Be warned about the following post from Canis Hoopus; several readers were overwhelmed by the 80,000 or so words that I linked to last week. This week, it’s all about the mistaken belief that Al Jefferson should move to power forward.  Key quote, regarding Jefferson being “short”: “First of all, this may come as a surprise to some of you but basketball players do not defend with the tops of their heads. It’s true.”

*That’s probably enough, but one more quick one: Aaron Gleeman taking apart Delmon Young, which I found enjoyable.

That’ll do it for me. For those of you who didn’t click on the above Boone and Erickson link, you missed a snippet of “Sid! The Musical,” starring Sid Hartman, and believe me when I tell you that it is absolutely your loss.

Enjoy Saturday.

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