News and Notes from the Blogosphere

As some of you may know, I read a lot of baseball blogs, and write my own, so here are a few tidbits from the blogosphere.

Junior of Fire Joe Morgan, which is a solid blog which has little relevence that I've found to Joe Morgan, talks about A-Rod not hifh-fiving Bobby Abreu, which is why the Yankees have lost ten straight.

I liked this quote from that post:

(Under the 2008 official baseball rule changes, as you may recall, a post-HR high-five clinches the "bonus zone," wherein the umpire must roll a seven-sided die and award the high-fivers' team the number of runs equaling the result of the roll.)

It's interesting to find out new rules all the time (fyi, this one is fake) but this one was new to me. Personnaly, I'm not against the idea of having players high five each other to roll a seven sided die. But that's unlikely going to happen in the MLB. Still, it's hillarious to here how crappy the Yankees are doing, and to find out that A-Rod doesn't have the marbles to give Abreu a high five, but will slap most of his teammates on the butt.

The Canucks website isn't really a blog, but whatever. The jobhunt is on after the firing of Dave Nonis. Some names to throw at you; Doug Armstrong, Neil Smith, Brian Lawton, Steve Tambellini, Mike Gillis, Trevor Linden and Brian Burke. Lawton and Gillis are the new options that are being looked at. There are some concerns with each Lawton because of his limited expierience.

Gillis however, seems to be out on top. He was believed to be close to getting the GM job back in the late 90's, when Brian Burke was eventually chosen, but there was a problem or two that no longer exist. Gillis had a problem with Steve Bellringer, who was the pylon between him and then Canucks owner Stan McCammon on the corporate scale. Both Bellringer and McCammon are far out of the picture. One other variable for Gillis' case, is that he is Markus Naslund's agent, who will be a free agent on July 1. Neither have said anything on the matter, however there is probably something there that could create a problem. Naslund coming back to the Canucks will also be something that we look at.