Afternoon Baseball

Ah, back to the grind.

1. The Catch-22 of pitching with your strength or mixing it up. By the way, if you haven't read Catch-22, the book, please do. It's just the best book of its time.

2. "Cracked" mocks the write-ups in People magazine's "Most Beautiful People" list. Now, you could say this is all too easy of a target. But the 15 entries are worth it just to see the ode to Scarlett Johansson. The ending?

Thank you, Scarlett, you trailblazer of supple cleavage —- you are truly the Rosa Parks of great racks.

3. While we're on the subject, I got this picture from this girl's blog. That makes it OK. Although I had no idea Katherine Heigl actually had a career. That's impressive.

4. The Red Hot Chili Peppers have a new album, and they play a couple news songs and some old ones for free on AOL's music feature. Predictably, Pitchfork was lukewarm on the album (4.7 of 10), which almost demands that you buy it, since 6 is about as high as you can get from them if you've ever sold more than 10 copies.

5. A great bit about Billy Crystal working Mickey Mantle into every conversation.

I thought I'd have more, but that's it for now.

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