Yeah Goose! Elected to the hall from back when men were men, closers were closers, and he who controlled the mustache controlled the world.

There are enough opinions out there if you’re interested, especially in re: Tim Raines. You have to be excited when a former Padre goes in, especially in this particularly well uniformed era, but for some reason the hall of fame debate doesn’t interest me that much. Mostly the making fun of things is what I find entertaining. The rest of this post will be spent talking about whatever I feel like.

What excites me is the new simpsons references tag, which you can see on the right sidebar there. We went back and added other posts that include our trademark brand of semi-complete references to the greatest first 10 seasons of all time.

I hope we don’t get sued for that picture of the Goose. The guy I stole it from had it posted on flickr, so lets hope he gets served first. So yeah. Turn on the New Hampshire primary coverage. Or make some Padres Miis. Either way.

Hopefully Ray will be able to save this post.

Beyond The Box Score interview with Paul Depodesta

Paul comes across as such a smart guy. I wish he would have answered this question:

QUESTION: Not too long ago the new Pirates’ general manager Neal Huntington did a Q&A session with MLB.com and answered a question about the metrics they use to judge players, I’d like to pose that same question to you: what are some of the statistics you to evaluate potential targets?

Depo responds by saying he can’t divulge the proprietary methods the team uses. Statheads probably already knew that, but couldn’t Paul just say “VORP” so we feel smarter?

I just logged on to Gaslamp Ball to find the link to their Depodesta interview, which is fantastic by the way, and saw they also linked to this story. I take one day off work, and think I’ll be getting ahead of things but noooo.

The only solution here is to take more time off work.

Alex Rodriguez endorses Mike Cameron in the Bronx (New York Times)

The two were teammates on the 2000 Mariners squad. The bulk of the article is of the rare Yankees speculation variety, so you may want to check it out before the coverage is bumped for the most recent Devil Rays rumor.

Analysis of Mark Prior’s Mechanics (Hardball Times)

I’m still disappointed (and encouraged) about Arizona’s hiring of Carlos Gomez. Before being snagged by the evil Snakes, Gomez broke down the delivery of Mark Prior (among others) for the Hardball Times. Short version: Prior needs to be more aggressive.

Worst Hall of Fame Arguments of 2008 (Vegas Watch)

Link stolen from Fire Joe Morgan. Who can’t resist a good fun making of baseball writers ever now and again?

P.S. This post is by no means an attempt to bite Ducksnorts’ Friday Links. Sacrificial Links are crazy enough to come out any day of the week, this is just a coincidence. This will probably happen on one out of every seven Sacrificial Link posts.