In ought-dickety, the only stat we had was height

DesigNate Robinson fisks more old fart nonsense about Verlander's MVP.

Verlander for MVP

Bill James has an excellent article about why Verlander should be the MVP, helpfully articulating all of my thoughts, only with less naked partisanship and more history.

Swept? By the Mariners? At home?

Time for Leland to give his famous "lollygaggin'" speech.

Link dump: Impartiality, the N word, batting averages

Truth-out nails Wisconsin supreme court justice Prosser and his partisan dealings.

People who said "nigger" today. They all look pretty much like you'd guess.

Offense is down across baseball. New pitcher's era?

Talking Tigers Baseball

Obviously, we lost the season opener because I didn't post anything about it and also was probably eating the wrong kind of chips and not enough oranges or some other superstition I've failed to honor.

Moments of major league play!

Top five worst baseball slogans, 2011. Unsurprisingly, the Royals oversell their talent.

BASEBALL!

After watching this movie from Thomas Jefferson (from this Metafilter thread), I got curious about the defunct league that was playing (the Atlantic League's Newark Colts, though I can't tell who they were playing against), and stumbled onto this explication of minor-league baseball in Danbury, Connecticut (the one state that I always have trouble spelling). Or "Hat-town" as it was apparently known, in that time before catchy nicknames.
There's also this neat chronology of the year that Edison filmed the game, which briefly mentions Lizzie (Arlington) Stroud, who was the first woman to play professional baseball, albeit only for one game (she pitched).

And if the focus isn't narrowed enough, there's the Minor League Baseball Researcher, which has a bunch of California League stats and some interesting descriptions. Too bad it's not regularly updated, but we're all in the long tail here.