The Bill James

He's broken silence on steroids, and hoo doggy, it's pretty great.

"You can like it or you can dislike it, but your grandchildren are going to be steroid users."

Essentially, BALCO et al = Disruptive Innovators, Barry Bonds et al = Early Adopters, and in the future, once the health risks are acceptably controlled, everyone and his uncle is gonna be on the juice. I suppose that makes Bill Platschke (sp?) a laggard.

I agree 100%.

Honoring the other MJ

Nothing to add to Deadspin's coverage... i just REALLY wanted to see this photo on here.

Hail to the King

Today we learn how to pay proper tribute to the memory of the most influential pop artist of a generation.

Junior is doing it right.

On Tuesday, I received this:

From: Pita Pit [mailto:info@phillypitapit.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:16 AMTo: Alex LehrSubject: Michael Jackson special

Greetings!
Today Pita Pit celebrates the life of Michael Jackson. As all you card-carrying fan club members know, Mexican was the King of Pop's favorite food. To pay our respects properly, we're offering an MJ inspired $5.00 Thriller Fajita, a steak or chicken fajita pita!

In honor of the late great one, we will also be changing the name of our Banana Very Berry Smoothie to the Smooth Criminal for the entire day. For those that don't know, the Smooth Criminal will have strawberries, bananas, frozen yogurt, orange juice and a little HEE hee.

To further transform the Pit into an MJ shrine, we'll be showing the TV special all day, beginning at 11am while blaring our Michael Jackson radio on Pandora. station. Listen with us... Ma ma se ma ma sa ma ma coo sa!

Pita Pit: UR doin it wrong.