While looking at a UK friend's photos on Facebook I saw a guy who looked an awful lot like Barry Zito. His name? Baron Von Zitenhausen. The rest of the stuff seems like Zito too (School: UCSB/USC; Interests: playing sports, playing music, SURFING). Look at his photos, it just gets weirder.

It's laughable that SI would even come up with a stupid idea like grading just one game. For laughs I clicked anyway. It was dumber than I imagined.

Sorry for re-posting this from yesterday's GameDay but I need to solve the mystery. It's not that I want to buy this hat; I'd like to figure out its meaning.

I found this hat at a discount store in Redwood City. As you can see it looks like a Syracuse logo with the word "Giants" in smaller letters below.

Did Nike make up this "Cooperstown Classics" or is it from an older minor league team or a Negro League team or just a forgotten SF Giants design? Please help satisfy my curiosity.

Doesn't fit Singletary's offense and it's been discussed ad nauseam, but it's out there now that he's available.

Posnanski rates MLB's top closers using the new Bill James Handbook as a guide.

Interesting piece with the usual suspects -- Rivera, Lidge, Papelbon -- cementing their status using "atypical" stats; scroll to the second page and you'll see our own Brian Wilson is rated sixth, behind the aforementioned three plus Soria and the Rangers' CJ Wilson.

I've got to pick up the Bill James Handbook this year, sounds like a fun read. The breakdown of the top "baserunners" looked pretty interesting too.

And they voted pretty overwhelmingly in favor of Lincecum.

"Hopefully these NL results are the same as the real ones. Lincecum deserves it," says one commenter at Bleed Cubbie Blue. Good to see other fans were just as impressed with his season.

Saw this first on FJM but it deserves to be ridiculed more.

John Heyman chooses:
1. FROD as his AL MVP, but he's listed third in his AL Cy Young "ballot." Both are ridiculous, of course.
2. Manny and CC are 1-2 in NL MVP.
3. Santana is his NL Cy Young over CC for "being in the NL all year," though above he cites that Manny and CC's big half seasons are the reasons they are his 1-2 in the MVP race. Oh yeah, Howard (3rd) and Pujols (5th!!!) had better seasons in a full year, which he mentions, but...
4. Brad Lidge is his #4 NL MVP and #3 NL Cy Young.

Timmy Lincecum gets only a passing mention, not even top three in the NL Cy Young.

Glad this joker doesn't get a vote.

The Arizona Fall League (AFL) rosters have been announced, and while most of the teams have submitted their players the Giants have not.

One look at the Scottsdale Scorpions roster tells me Buster Posey isn't going to play because there's no roster spot for another catcher. There are, however, two spots reserved for Giants pitchers, two for infielders, and one for an outfielder.

Any speculation on who goes?