The Links: The Odds On Me Losing Money On Any Given Wager Are 2-1

I'm half tempted to throw $20 on the Rays and hope for the best (Vegas MLB Odds @ Oriole Post)

It doesn't matter which sport we're talking about, or how much people dislike the system - I always have, and always will, love hearing about Hall of Fame elections (NFL Hall of Fame Gets Six New Members, Art Monk Is Finally One of Them @ The FanHouse)

Someone should really do this with blogs (Who Reads What? @ The Wizard of Odds)

Joe Posnanski on the Patriots spying scandal and what it means in relation to Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire (Cheating... @ Joe Posnanski)

Help me, Obi-Wan Jacoby, you're my only hope ( New England tries to remind itself the Red Sox are still awesome, FOCUS ON THE RED SOX! @ Bugs & Cranks)

Eddie Sutton came to San Francisco for a reason. Mission accomplished (It's All Over But The Quitting - Eddie Sutton Gets #800 @ Storming the Floor)

Remembering Muhammad Ali's vicious destruction of Ernie Terrell (Classic No Mas - What's My Name? @ No Mas)

Few Patriots have meant more to the team over the past decade than Troy Brown (Just a Football Player @ Half-Baked Ravings)

Guess it's a good thing I married a girl with brown eyes (All blue-eyed people share one common ancestor @ World History Blog)

I've decided on a new career goal: professional angry letter writer for PETA. I think that would be a fun way to earn a paycheck (PETA Would Like an Apology @ Babes Love Baseball)

Mike Carey is good at his job, a fact that helped cost the Patriots the Super Bowl. If he wasn't the greatest penalty signaler in NFL history*, I'd hate him (Super Bowl Ref Mike Carey on Eli Manning to David Tyree Pass: 'I Anticipated a Sack' @ The FanHouse)

*Seriously, the guy's arm movements when signaling a penalty or some other infraction are outstanding. I really need to find some video. He SNAPS the arm out to show which way the call is going, then softens it up a bit and casually rolls his hand over to show the down. He's awesome. Except when he didn't screw up and whistle this play dead, of course.

The first words of this post: "This really has nothing to do with anything, but I don't care." I might have to steal that and use it as the philosophy of this blog (Razzie Awards Odds @ Vegas Watch)

The homerun chase in the National League figures to be wide open this season (Who will win the 2008 National League HR Crown? @ Diamond Hoggers, 2008 MLB Home Run Champ Odds @ Vegas Watch)