Since my Michael Young post I linked to over a month ago, I have made 11 posts at my new blog How-to-Win Sports. Below is a list of what you can find there. I hope you'll take a look.

Dodgers Payroll and Manny - how the Dodgers could have made their team better by going without Manny

Bill James takes on the BCS - a link to James' article about how the BCS is designed to simply blame the computer rankings and his request to all statisticians to refuse to work with the BCS

Could I see some evidence, please? - an argument against the belief that Bobby Abreu would have accepted arbitration if the Yankees had offered

Corky Simpson's Non-Vote for Rickey Henderson - arguments against the logic of Corky Simpson's response to criticism of his lack of voting for Rickey Henderson into the Hall of Fame

Ignorance among Sportswriters - a link to King Kaufman's article that points out that many sportswriters treat their ignorance like it's a skill

Daily Fantasy Sports Action: 01/13/09 - a fantasy sports primer for winning your league

Fantasy Sports: Michael Young - a look at how his move to third base will impact his value

Fantasy Sports: The Value of Relievers - an explanation of how "paying for saves" is often a good move

Top Starter or Top Closer? - a comparison of the effects of drafting a top starter versus drafting a top closer

Shane Battier: The No-Stats All-Star - a link to Michael Lewis's exceptional article of how Shane Battier provides most of his value outside the box score

Edgar Renteria: Does his hamstring trouble tell the whole story? - a look at the effect of Renteria's bothersome hamstring on his poor first half in 2008

I plan on doing one of these posts here at Fox Sports every couple of weeks, but I hope you'll check out my new blog more often.

Over at my new blog, I just put up a new post that I think a few people will find interesting titled Does Michael Young have trade value? If interested, go take a look. If you'd like to leave a comment, please do so at the new blog as my email address associated with this blog hasn't been checked in over a year.

I haven't posted much lately, and I apologize for that. Today, I'm announcing that my blog has been moved, and its purpose is also going to be a little different than what I was doing here. The new blog is titled How-to-Win Sports. At the new blog, I'm going to post my daily fantasy sports action, which means that it could be pretty slow until baseball season starts up (I only follow baseball and football). The new blog will also talk about real life moves and their impact on both real and fantasy sports.

Today's post is about my decision for picking keepers in a football league. I'd enjoy seeing your opinion.

Around here, I usually talk baseball without much mention of the football, but I think it's important that both sides of stories get told. In this case, I'm talking about Vince Young. I can't add much more than what Stefan Fatsis had to say yesterday, so I'll just give you the link and tell you to give the situation more thought than the average fan has.

It's been awhile since I've posted on here. In the meantime, I visited the Windy City, got sick, and then visited bears in Gatlinburg (click image for larger picture).



But I'm back and I'm excited for this weekend to get here. No, I'm not talking about the start of the football season. I'm talking about the upcoming 3-game series between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets and the 3-game series between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers.

Recently, I looked through the schedules to see how many teams controlled their own destiny. Here's the list of teams that control their own destiny:

Tampa Bay Rays
Boston Red Sox
Chicago White Sox
Minnesota Twins
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

New York Mets
Philadelphia Phillies
Chicago Cubs
Milwaukee Brewers
Arizona Diamondbacks
Los Angeles Dodgers

If you're looking for head-to-head matchups between these teams that will greatly affect the playoffs, you'll be disappointed. Other than this weekend's games, the White  Sox and Twins face off September 23-25 and that's it.

But wait, the Rockies could make things interesting. They didn't make the above list, but they only missed it by a 0.5 game. Once we include them, the number of matchups increase greatly. The Rockies face the Dodgers September 12-14, and they face the Diamondbacks September 19-21 and 26-28. Let's hope the Rockies climb their way back into this race and give us more interesting matchups down to the wire.

In the meantime, I'm going to put off football season for one more week and have my eyes glued to the matchups in the NL East and West this weekend.