Links of the Day: Last ones in January

The top 10 fantasy baseball flukes of 2007. It’s never too early to start getting ready for fantasy baseball. (Baseball Mastermind)

Michael Beasley is simply amazing, and also delivered on a guarantee. (Larry Brown Sports)

Darren Rovell brings up an excellent point — Barry Bonds has probably hit his last home run, and no one knows where the ball is or who owns it. (Sports Biz with Darren Rovell)

The Dan Patrick Show has a new website affiliated with SI (DanPatrick.com). It’s better than the old one, but there’s still more they can do. (Palaver)

The Cavaliers should really hire hecklers to make fun of LeBron James on the road, heckling LeBron just seems to make him play better. (We Suck at Sports)

Will Leitch learns that there aren’t many Arizona Cardinals fans in Arizona. (The Sporting Blog)

Bloggers are no longer alone in mocking Barbaro

In the sports blogosphere, making fun of Barbaro and his fans and supporters is nothing new at all. We’ve been doing it for over a year now.

But until today, I hadn’t seen anyone in the mainstream media make fun of the Barbaro phenomenon. Enter T.J. Simers:

As far as I’m concerned, this is Super Bowl 2 since that great courageous warrior, Barbaro, kicked it. The Indianapolis win over Chicago a year ago in Super Bowl 1 is a little hollow knowing the big fella never got the chance to neigh with approval.

Later:

There’s no question I was off my game Tuesday at Super Bowl media day, forced to work by unsympathetic editors on the one-year anniversary when Barbaro officially went four hoofs up.

T.J. Simers’ columns range from hilarious to awful. This one was a home run.

60 days ’til Opening Day

There are 60 days left until that best day of the year, MLB Opening Day.

I passed on writing about Roger Maris and 61 yesterday, so I figured I’d do the obvious one here — Babe Ruth for a long time held the home run record with 60 home runs.

What’s more amazing to me about that, is Ruth had more home runs himself than any of the other American League teams. I think it’s safe to say that won’t happen again.