Idiots Write About Sports

Having trouble staying on top of all these Winter Meetings a-doings? Not sure whether the Boston Red Sox are trying to unload Manny Ramirez or Manny Alexander? Wonder which Marlin is arriving in Queens at fire-sale prices today? Then you need to get up on the winter meetings, my friend.

Start with this article by Gordon Edes of the Boston Globe that summarizes the wants and needs, the hopes and dreams of each Major League Baseball team (and the Marlins). (We were alerted to this fine bit of summing up by Baseball Musings, which is as good a source as any in its own right when it comes to staying on top of all things Hot Stove.)

Over at SI.com, John Donavon looks at the players whose names are going to get bandied about this week. Meanwhile, the New York Post manages to turn its unflinching gaze away from the goings on in the Bronx to muse about what the 29 other teams might be cooking up this week in Dallas. The San Francisco Chronicle’s John Shea looks at the winter meetings from the perspective of the Bay Area’s local nines (the local 18s?) — the A’s, for once, seem to be dealing from a position of strength.

We suggest checking in with Baseball Prospectus, where Will Carroll will be filing reports from Dallas (and takes your questions, apparently. Question for Frank McCourt: when do you plan to start paying players with pogs and bits of string? Also, I loved your memoir about your hardscrabble youth in New York.) Of course, to read the stuff on BP, you’d have to not be a deadbeat. You could also subscribe to the Baseball Prospectus podcast — which promises semi-regular updates from Winter Meetings-land — but then you’d have to master this whole Internet-technology thingie. And if you’re still reading this site, Lord knows you’re probably not up on that.

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