Weekend links with Jon Marthaler
Posted on June 27th, 2009 – 10:03 AMBy Michael Rand
Jon Marthaler enthralls you every Saturday with links for some leisurely weekend reading. Other times, you can find him here and here.
Jon?
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Happy Saturday! We usually start by talking about the weather, but frankly I’m sick to death of weather at this point. We had a reconfigured-brass-monkey-type winter, and yet we’ve already had six days in the 90s this summer, as many as we had all last year — and it’s only June 27. If I can figure out who is dealing with complaints (other than you, dear readers), I will be lodging one.
Now would be a good time for some links:
*Two Twins links of the week for your reading pleasure. First, John “Twins Geek” Bonnes examines Francisco Liriano — and comes out just as baffled as everyone else. Second, Nick “Nick” Nelson has a look at Twins prospect Danny Valencia, who could be your Twins third baseman as early as next year, assuming of course that Michael Cuddyer doesn’t get moved to third base again.
*In TV ratings news: having the University of Texas beat the Texas Rangers in the ratings is not news. It is news, however, when it’s the Texas _baseball_ team that out-drew the Rangers.
*As seen on Deadspin: Slate writes about center-field camera angles. As it turns out, the Twins will be shooting games from dead center next year, which is heartening. I have trouble imagining that any fan would prefer the old, offset, field-level camera to an angle that can actually show balls and strikes.
*Also from Deadspin: I loved this examination of NBA draft picks’ body language when shaking hands with David Stern. Ricky Rubio has never looked so young — and Jonny Flynn couldn’t look more confident. Is it sad that I wasn’t convinced about the Flynn pick until I saw the breakdown of his body language?
That’ll do it for this weekend. Keep on keepin’ on out there in RandBallLand. We’re all in this together.
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