Links!

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Even this can of Budweiser looks tempting right about now. It's wicked hot out here in Seattle -- 98 degrees ahh! Anyway, here are a nine links to tide us over 'til baseball is back tomorrow:

The Yankees are still America's favorite baseball team according to a recent Harris Poll. Eeew. The Red Sox pulled in at #3.

There was one classic All-Star game face-off that Joe Buck and Tim McCarver did not actively discuss last night. [The Sports Hernia Blog]

I had a conversation eerily similar to this with my fantasy baseball team today. [McSweeny's]

It is a work-in-progress, but Joy of Sox has created the ultimate Red Sox nickname glossary.

Matt Ufford has a great piece over at AOL Fanhouse: How to Give Blogs Credit: a Handy Guide for the Mainstream Media. [Hat tip to The 700 Level]

Red Sox 16 year old uber prospect, Michael Almanzar, participated in his first scrimmage as a member of the Red Sox organization.

Baseball Prospectus looks ahead to the second half of the MLB season.

The NY Daily News "experts" dream up a team for the new Yankee Stadium in '09. Hint: there are lots of overpriced, aging free agents.

The Boston Bruins 2007-08 schedule is here! Besides our new goalie, we pretty much have the same team that was 35-41-6 last year, don't we? Sigh.

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