Billy Ripken finally tells the story behind the infamous "Fuck Face" baseball card.

Maybe in three years, it would make sense for the Orioles to consider such an enormous contract. But not now, not when both teams are miles away from contending, not when they need a whole lot more than Teixeira.

Brandon Isleib over at The Hardball Times has written a series of articles about what if there had always been two divisions in baseball since 1901. He has done a lot of research and put together on how the divisional play would've affected baseball from 1901 to 1968.

There are three articles and this article begins with links to the first two articles. It is interesting to see how some teams with divisional play may have gotten into the playoffs and how others went from just appearing into a dominance in their division. I found it to be a lot of fun to read, especially during the off-season when I am bored because there is no baseball.
Hope you find these articles as interesting as I did.

From Peter Schmuck.

C Lou Palmisano from the Nashville Sounds (Milwaukee Brewers)
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/P/lou-palmisano.shtml

SS Robert Valido from the Birmingham Barons (White Sox)
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/v/robert-valido.shtml

I haven't looked closely at their histories yet, but this seems like good news.

UPDATE (from duck): We've already flipped Lou Palmisano. From The Sun:
"The Orioles selected catcher Lou Palmisano from the Milwaukee Brewers organization with the fifth pick of today's Rule 5 Draft, but then traded him to the Houston Astros for cash considerations."