For those not keeping score at home, the Yankees are currently in last place in the AL East, 1/2 game behind the D-Rays.

My heart bleeds for them and their $195,229,045 payroll. You'd think that they'd get better performance from spending that much money. Heck, Tampa's payroll is only $24,124,200.

The war on drugs continues unabated. Pseudoephedrine must be purchased from behind the prescription counter, even though it is not a prescription drug.

The result of this increase in labor requirements for pharmacies and hassle for cold, flu, and allergy sufferers?

Outsourcing of production to Mexico.

From the National Drug Threat Assessment ( Read more... )

Baseball Prospectus is not what it was when I started reading it. It has moved away from pure statistical analysis and constant snarky comments. At the same time, the snark still gets put out there. This one (in todays Transaction Analysis by Christina Kahrl) just cracked me up.

"There are bad ideas, there are Sylvester Stallone-in-a-musical ( Read more... )