I’ve been ill the last couple of days. This would be fine except mlb.tv has been at best unreliable, although it did work long enough for me to see one of my favourite things in baseball on Monday night – a Daniel Murphy home run.
You’d have thought more productive posts would have come out of spending most of my time indoors messing about on the internet, seemingly not so. I’ll write this as a filler now before I post something bigger in the next couple of days.

- This is my new favourite baseball blog. Check out the entries on Dave Kingman, be prepared to get lost.
- I hold the honour of being the first person to comment on Prince Fielder’s first ever blog post. Hours after my comment Fielder was hit by a fastball thrown by former Met Guillermo Mota. Fielder then tried to break into the Dodger’s clubhouse to remonstrate with the opposing players. NTIG’s influence was, once again, felt around the world.
- Wezen-ball bemoans these dog days of summer. August is an especially long month if your team is 9 games out of contention and that trip to Citi Field you planned to watch two games against the Phillies looks like being not such an important series anymore. I blame Adam Rubin.
- Neftali Feliz is here! My fantasy team finds a middle reliever to take over from Latroy Hawkins. Fangraphs is impressed.
- King of bling come to lay down the evidence – L-Millz is back! This time in black and yellow. I used to have such high hopes for Milledge, I still have his baseball card on my wall in fact. Witness this recreation of a Lastings 3-run blast (complete with brilliant call from Gary Cohen) and see how Millz is so good his home runs can make the apple levitate.
- Finally, non-baseball related, but have a read of this superb interview with British cyclist Bradley Wiggins. Mark Cavendish’s 6 stage wins, Armstrong’s comeback, Contador’s dominence in the mountains were all amazing but Wiggo was the true hero of the Tour de France for me.

Right, more soon!