Jon Marthaler makes every Saturday even more pleasurable with links for some leisurely weekend reading. Other times, you can find him here and here.

Salutations all! Today’s useless piece of knowledge: “Soul Limbo” by Booker T & the MGs has been used as an introduction to BBC Radio’s cricket coverage for more than 30 years. Given that the biennial Ashes cricket series between Australia and England is going on right now, this seems appropriate. You can sit, safely ensconced in your homes, apartments, or other dwellings, listening to this music, and knowing that people half a world away are even now lost in an impenetrable discussion of second slips and square legs and maiden overs. You can be happy, that is, because you are secure in the knowledge that you are not one of those people.

Let’s get on with some links:

*This was linked yesterday, but I feel the need to point out every part of Stu’s oeuvre at Twinkie Town yesterday: his feature story, his game preview, and his game recap. All are delightful. A quick interview conducted via text message with the author revealed that he was “just trying to get after it.” I’d go one better and say that he was “throwing the living fire out of the ball.”
LINKS:

*Feature Story

*Preview

*Recap

*Tommy Craggs at Deadspin notes that, relative both to regular workers and other pro athletes, baseball players are actually - in a way - underpaid. In response, Bill Smith and Jim Pohlad filed an injunction against math, citing “percentages embarrassing to the ballclub.”

*I just love stuff like this: Chris Brown at Smart Football quickly traces the evolution of the spread running game — from Rich Rodriguez to Randy Walker and then, in a way, back again.

*You know how every year some poor sap gets stuck with the Mr. Irrelevant tag for being the last guy picked in the NFL Draft? Well, they just had the Supplemental Draft, and only one player - that’s right - was selected. True story: he didn’t get picked until the third round. I suspect he has well and truly earned the Irrelevant moniker.

That’ll do it for me. Enjoy your respective Saturdays, Sundays, or whenever you happen to be reading this. I’m hoping somebody will stumble across it, years later. Hello, person from the future!

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