Mike Carminati at Mike's Baseball Rants and John Perricone at Only Baseball Matters have been having trouble updating their links to this site. Mike has figured out the problem, if anyone else is suffering at the hands of blogger:

I fixed the problem and wanted to pass it on to you for anyone else who has the same issue. First, you have to turn off archiving and post. Then you have to re-generate all of your archives. After I did that, it finally cleared up my disappearing archive issue and it published the changes that I made to my template.

The MLBPA has announced that they will make a decision before opening day on whether to have the all-star game determine home field advantage for the World Series. Fox is lobbying the players for the change, since they think it will increase ratings.

I think it's a bad idea. If you want to give someone a home field advantage based on merit, make it on the regular season record. I don't think league loyalty is so great that players would want to win to help an opponent have an advantage in the post-season.

You can find my blog here, Baseball Musings.