* You’ve GOT to be kidding me. This kind of rumormongering is why rumormongering has a bad name.
* Keith Hernandez touted BP2007 this year (though he didn’t respond to interview/Q&A requests … I’m still working on that). Now he’s touting Tootsie Pops. I wonder which he likes more.
* Never thought I’d be able to say “keep choppin’ wood” at BP rather than Football Outsiders! Nice article by Adam McCalvy on the Brewers‘ conditioning. As odd as some of it seems, the Brewers’ medical staff is open minded about what works and leaves a lot to the player as to what works for them, but there’s also a core program, designed by Dan Wright, that’s key. I wish I could show you the website they have for conditioning, but they’d have me killed.
* Love the picture of Daisuke Matsuzaka that accompanies this SI article. Also love Verducci pointing out that Matsuzaka eschews ice. Icing down after pitching is a baseball tradition, but one that doesn’t make scientific sense. You ice to reduce swelling and there’s some indication that swelling is a necessary and positive response. That might also mean that all those anti-inflammatories pitchers take are hurting rather than helping.
* If you’re a Mariners fan, this column has to scare you a bit. Don’t you love it though when some name like Edwin Nunez comes up and you think “holy crap, I haven’t thought about that guy in years!”
* Anti-rumormongering from the Boston Globe, the paper that “gets” the web better than anyone. No Brad Lidge on the block? Believe it. Clemens coming back in May? Believe it.
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