- We got a nice shout-out from David Pinto over at Baseball Musings. I have been reading David’s blog for some time now and I credit him with a portion of the inspiration for my enhanced interest in performance analysis over the last few years. Thanks, David!

- Jay Jaffe has some exciting news that folks here will most definitely want to check out. Steven Goldman, Pinstriped Bible writer, has been editing a book to be released by Baseball Prospectus about how the Red Sox were able to win the World Series this year. Jay has contributed a couple of pieces to the book. Granted both are Yankee fans, but they are two of the very best scribes on the internet. Jay’s Futility Infielder combines wonderful prose and rock-solid analysis while Goldman’s clearly well-read and is quick with an historic metaphor. Jay has this to say about Goldman and I don’t disagree with any of it;

Goldman is — and I say this with as little hyperbole as I can muster, even with the fact that I count him as a personal friend — quite possibly the best baseball writer in the country, at least among those who have sprung forth in the era of the Internet. No partisan hack or house organist, he’s been able to carve out a niche writing a column that takes an objective eye to the Yanks, and done so on George Steinbrenner’s nickel. As he consistently reminds irate Yankees fans whose butts chafe at his criticisms of sacred Yankee cows such as Derek and Tino and hoary baseball myths like the importance of RBIs and pitcher Wins in player evaluation, the PB is an argument about winning baseball. Those of you who come here to enjoy smart commentary, whatever your rooting interests, have much to gain not only by making the PB (Pinstriped Bible) a weekly stop, but by getting a daily dose via his blog.

Good luck, guys. You can bet I will be frequenting Goldman’s new blog and purchasing a copy of the new book.

- This is just my first season of 24 but man am I hooked. What a fantastic show.

- To be perfectly clear, I think Surviving Grady is a fun site and any Red Sox fan would enjoy it. The guys clearly love the Sox and that’s really what all this blogging is about – our love for the game and our team. I fear I may have come off a bit condescending in a few of my remarks but it is only because I feel as though anybody smart enough to put pen to paper as well as those guys do over there will, in time, see the SABR light. I consider my inability to expedite the process a personal failure, and an indication that I probably need to enhance my own understanding of some very basic principles.

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