JAL’s Let’s Start the New Year Right Morning Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEv5rndSeSA

Let’s Start the New Year Right Bing Crosby

GENERAL UPDATED BASEBALL SITES

1- MLB Transactions

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/transactions

2-MLB Trade Rumors-Pirates

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/pittsburgh_pirates/

3 BFFL’s 2015 Pirates Stats Spreadsheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yqsKbP9Dr1sn4WnwuNO1iJ3SJ3OiBvhZp9XvyU2QpC0/edit#gid=0

4 PBC Asylum Recipe Collection

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8jN0zO-DxI0eVkyazRFY2IzLU0&usp=sharing

5 ESPN

MLB calendar and key dates

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?page=mlb_calendar

BLOGS and such

6 Bodie’s Baseball Blog

TONY WATSON DOMINANT AS PIRATES' SETUP MAN

http://bdbaseball.sportsblog.com/posts/9590134/tony-watson-dominant-as-pirates--setup-man.html

7 Viva El Birdos

Can Mike Leake outperform his peripherals?

http://www.vivaelbirdos.com/st-louis-cardinals-sabermetrics-analysis/2015/12/26/10663848/can-mike-leake-outperform-his-peripherals

8 Green Weenie

12/26: Hanny for Mark the Shark; Danny O'Donnell Deal; HDB Jeff King, Mario Mendoza, Lee King!

 

http://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2015/12/1226-hanny-for-mark-shark-danny.html

John Jaso: Catching On At First Base

http://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2015/12/john-jaso-catching-on-at-first-base.html

9 Red Reporter

Remembering Jim O'Toole

http://www.redreporter.com/2015/12/26/10667246/remembering-jim-otoole

10 Bleed Cubbie Blue

The Time The Cubs Started 4 First Basemen

http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2015/12/26/10666972/cubs-started-4-first-basemen

11 Elgin Courier News

New lease on life for Hampshire's Jake Goebbert with Pittsburgh Pirates

          

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/elgin-courier-news/sports/ct-ecn-baseball-jake-goebbert-1227-20151226-story.html

12 LA Daily News

Hoffarth: Sports media in 2015 hinged on arrivals, departures</b>

http://www.dailynews.com/sports/20151226/hoffarth-sports-media-in-2015-hinged-on-arrivals-departures

13 Elichaps Blog

  CARDINALS LIKE FINE WINE ~ BETTER WITH AGE

http://elichap.sportsblog.com/posts/9598023/cardinals-like-fine-wine---better-with-age.html

14 National Pastime Museum

Seasons past by Damon Rice

http://www.thenationalpastimemuseum.com/article/seasons-past-damon-rice

15 St. Louis Post Dispatch

Sports columnist Joe Strauss dies at 54

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/other/sports-columnist-joe-strauss-dies-at/article_fd16f33a-8385-5c84-bea8-a827c74def47.html

16 USA Today

Sports predictions for 2016: The silly, serious and sublime

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2015/12/26/sports-predictions-2016-curry-woods-djokovic-rousey-williams-ovechkin/77923678/

17 SB Nation   

The Nationals got a Daniel Murphy for Christmas

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2015/12/26/10666282/daniel-murphy-nationals-mlb

Peyton Manning among numerous NFL, MLB stars named in Al Jazeera report on steroids

http://www.sbnation.com/2015/12/26/10668562/peyton-manning-steroid-allegations-report-hgh-al-jazeera-clay-matthews-ryan-howard

18 CBS Sports

Postseason dominance, command make Curt Schilling a Hall of Famer

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/25426784/postseason-dominance-command-make-curt-schilling-a-hall-of-famer

19 Fangraphs

The New Stage of Scott Kazmir

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-new-stage-of-scott-kazmir/

20 Sports on Earth

RESPECT FOR JIM RICE

http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/160511696/jim-rice-red-sox-career-success

21 Fox Sports

Orioles' new outfielder from Korea comes with his own theme song

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/baltimore-orioles-new-outfielder-from-korea-comes-with-his-own-theme-song-122615