Today at THT

I’m in a Diamondmind sim league with Dayn Perry, Joe Dimino, Shredder, and a bunch of guys whose names you might know if you hang around Baseball Think Factory a lot. Last night I turned in my keeper list in the runup to this year’s draft. We’re allowed to keep ten players. I listed mine, and even though they are merely virtual, textual and statistical representations of real people, the guys I kept started a whisper campaign to the local media about how I simply don’t care about winning. Then the press saw that I didn’t keep the fake Jeter, and they really let me have it. Rough league.

The Big Bad Don Malcom begins an omnibus what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-the-Hall-of-Fame and-how-do-we-fix-it series. Grab a soda for this one, because it’s gonna take you a while to get through it. It’s Malcom, though, so it’s worth getting through

Brian Borawski has the latest business of baseball roundup. How lame does Mark Cuban feel about the fact that a former agent cum executive can decide to buy the Padres seemingly overnight and make it happen while a billionaire who already owns a team in another sport can’t make it happen at all?

Tuck! illustrates the passion of Red Sox fans

Finally, over at Fantasy Focus, Derek Carty talks late first round strategy. I don’t know about you, but by seventh or eighth pick of the first round I have already screwed up my entire draft, and that’s even the case when I’m drafting ninth.