Just days away ... the first WGN games are this weekend and the NCAA Tourney (minus one of my Final Four picks) can distract us until then. Watching the splitcast of all four games is one of the great things about March.

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Someone want to apologize for criticizing my "Chavez signed" post of about a month ago? Didn't think so ...

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BPR this week should be solid. Rany Jazayerli on the AL Central, reports from Florida and Arizona, plus in one of the cool interviews I've done, we had the lead producer for EA's MVP Baseball 2004. These games really are getting frighteningly good and they're closer to movies than sports anymore in how they get made. Well worth listening to, I think.

(And yes, they did some us some product!)

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2/3 of the way done with THR's.

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If I had a Jamba Juice in Indianapolis, I would probably drink much less coffee.

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I did the Sportsline "Experts League" draft last week and ended up with a pretty good team. It's roto, so it's skewed, but go check it out over at Sportsline. As ESPN continues to dumb down its content and makes its pages load slowly even over a blazing cable modem, I'm still searching for a sports home page. If it weren't for their Holy Trinity of Gammons, Stark and Neyer, I'd never go.

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If the players really want testing and don't trust the owners, I volunteer to become the drug testing czar.

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Is it just me or how the heck does MTV call Joss Stone and Jet "hot new music"?

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Why aren't the Counting Crows recognized as one of the best and most consistent American bands of the last decade? Is it that 'August and Everything After' was just so damn good that anything else seems like a come down?

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Indy Pizza Feed this weekend. Be there or be ... umm, somewhere else. I do still have one slot open in my Indy Scoresheet league. It's a live draft on the 28th, so you'll probably have to be midwest based.

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I miss my iBook. It should be back early next week and the good people at Apple assure me that they've fixed the problem for good this time. It says a lot about their customer service skills that I could have three major failures and still recommend the product highly.

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Anyone drive a 2004 Accord or a recent vintage Mini?

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Want an advantage in your fantasy league? Understand risk. Heck, I think it might be the next arbitrage opportunity in real baseball, like OBP was and defense is.