Jon Marthaler makes every Saturday even more pleasurable with links for some leisurely weekend reading. Other times, you can find him here and here. We hope he endorses the use of that light-hearted picture of injury-prone new Twins pitcher Carl Pavano, which was sent to us by Kenny C. via this blog, which has an image at the top that is NSFW. If you are reading, Carl Pavano, please note that the vast majority of the readership hopes you steer clear of the operating table and provide some quality starts. Jon?

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Salutations, all. After a one-week Rand-imposed repose, I’m back with another edition of the weekend links. If this is your first time with us, a little explanation: I piece together 4-5 links every weekend that generally just barely manage to completely fail to have any sort of unifying theme. I make a few cracks about the weather, mention an extremely minor sport or two, and later Stu comes along and provides us a soundtrack and a few cracks about hockey. It’s all quite diverting on a Saturday.

All that said: on with the links!

*The first event in the new Gopher football stadium is coming up soon… which makes it a perfect time to take a look back at the old stadium. A team from University Libraries put together an absolutely tremendous digital repository of stuff - pictures, letters, brochures, programs, videos - all relating to Memorial Stadium. If you haven’t seen it, prepare to clear three hours from your schedule. (Feel free to start off with a WCCO TV report on the project, including an interview with Shane Nackerud of Greet Machine fame, who was instrumental in putting this project together.)

*John “Twins Geek” Bonnes is looking on the bright side for the Twins - and looking to the future. (Given that the Twins have lost six of seven since the post was written, maybe that’s for the best.)

*Canis Hoopus wants you to get interested in the WNBA. It’s good to see that somebody besides me is willing to embark on impossible, fringe-league-related crusades.

*And finally, unrelated to anything (except meat): RandBall’s own roughkat pointed out this chart, which is possibly the greatest graphic in the history of the internet.

On that note, it’s time to shut down for another weekend. Do stay inside. Mother Nature has turned on us, and it is a terrifying (and humid) sight to behold.

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