Sunday Links: A Graph, Deer Meat and Psychoanalysis

Huh? (Photo from Yahoo Sports)

We're wicked late with the Sunday links, but here they are. We promise that we weren't out late last night at Lebowski Fest although we're 42% sure that it would've been fun.

Graph of the Day: The Boston Soap Opera [Humbug Journal]
Now we have a brand-new way to visualize "Manny Being Manny."

Ellsbury a rare talent [Boston Globe]
Ya-ah-teh. Count us among those who didn't realize that Sox uber prospect, Jacoby Ellsbury, is of Navajo descent. We also weren't aware that he once dressed up as Johnny Damon for Halloween.

Sheffield wanted in: 'Boston was my first choice' [Boston Herald]
Gary Sheffield wanted to play for the Red Sox? If it had happened, we'd have cheered for him, but we definitely don't know any Red Sox fans who were "talking good about Gary" when he was a Yankee:

"When I was out in public, Boston fans would say, ‘Why are you hanging out with Jeter? We hate the Yankees, but we respect you.’ And Jeter would say, ‘Man, when we go out in Boston, no one messes with Gary. Everybody’s always talking good about Gary.’ I used to wonder why, too. Maybe it’s the style of play or something else, but I always sensed the respect factor, even when I came to the plate.”

Excited Red Sox Fans Eagerly Await Debut Of Matsuzaka's 'Ultimate Galactic Dragon Gyroball Pitch Power Explosion' [The Onion]
We're 97% sure that only the Onion could come up with the phrase "ultimate galactic dragon gyroball."

Top Ten Bizarre baseball injuries of the last decade [Tufts Daily]
What do deer meat, a tanning salon and a can of dog food have in common?

How to Appeal to Baseball Fans? Advice: Don't Try [NY Times]
The psychoanalyzation of A-Rod continues. He's just "too sensitive."

Last, but not least -- here's the diverting non-baseball link:
Pick Images and This Program Will Tell You About Yourself [via Digg]
Here's how it works: You pick images based on your personal preferences and at the end of the "quiz" you will receive a description about yourself. (We don't know why it is so much fun to have a computer generated program "tell us about ourselves" even though we probably already "know ourselves" because we "are ourselves," but it is...)

PS. The sun won't set until 7:09 tonight in Seattle. Yikes, it's practically summer! Too bad it's raining....
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