Whoring for Attention, October 4

This is our new feature, "Whoring for Attention," a link dump for things I read today that I really enjoyed. Why the name, you ask? Because the only way people are going to read this thing without us advertising it is if we link to a lot of other blogs, and they see these links, and come back to us and enjoy our stuff enough to link to us. (Gotta love the blogger circlejerk ethic.) To this point, I'm pretty sure the only people reading this site are the four of us. And my wife, just to make sure I'm not making fun of her. Anyway, on to the links....

Jose Melendez, our fellow pseudonymous blogger, has a topnotch (even by his high standards) KEYS TO THE GAME that gave me extra faith that the Red Sox will be in good shape, even if every game isn't as magically delicious as Beckett's Game One.

My favorite part is this: So what does this tell us about today’s contest? If one looks at the record, the Normans are 1-0 against the Angles historically, so one should anticipate a Red Sox win today followed by five hundred years of intermarriage, the eventual merger of the Red Sox and Angles into one team, and then centuries of colonial rule over the Cleveland Indians.

Also a big fan of the Soxaholix treatment of last night's game. Makes me wish I still worked with people who cared about baseball at all, let alone helping me enjoy the warm and fuzzy.

BC has a sneakily important game against Bowling Green (is that the Ohio one or the Kentucky one?), and Eagle in Atlanta's got your preview. Every other BC fan I know is just amazed to see a "6" or "7" next to our alma mater's name, but MGoBlog's Blogpoll seems to have noticed more than the "real" polls that our last two wins over presumed patsies have been something less than dominant.

And while I'm at it, I am in awe of the Upon Further Review that Brian puts up after every Michigan game. Bill does a good job of recapping the BC games in very general terms, even going position-by-position, but there's nothing quite like the MGoBlog play-by-play recap. And Brian is dead-on about Michigan's lack of creativity; even in row 92 of the Big House I can immediately call which direction we'll be running.

Like Justin Wolfers' students, I, too, was warned not to do sports economics papers, and that seems like sound advice. It's Toy Department Economics, and yet people love to write these papers because it's fun to write about sports. His reason #6 really carries the most weight, I think.

A bit more geekiness: the debate on Greg Mankiw's blog about SCHIP. The White House guy has a surprisingly nuanced (for this administration) argument, but of course I agree more with Furman.

Finally, any post about football that also mentions Queens of the Stone Age gets the Whoring for Attention treatment, and I'm a big fan of Big Daddy Drew's work. Kissing Suzy Kolber was obviously one of our big influences for this whole team blog thing, and it's his stuff that makes it worth the trip. But stop offering to pay people to injure Brady! I'd offer one dollar more to not injure him, but $31 times 11 defenders times 14 remaining opponents will get expensive.