Memorial Day links

Just a couple interesting links to toss out here at lunch-time on this Memorial Day:

The Bucs Dugout tackles the latest column by the columnist-who-shall-not-be-named and his latest attempt to degrade Craig Wilson's worth to the team, this time by labeling him a lefty-only mashing utility player. Of course, fun things like "numbers" say otherwise, and Charlie provides them.

And in the 8th inning yesterday afternoon with the White Sox up 6-5, Rob Mackowiak delivered a solo insurance homer. It's noteworthy because it came on his son's second birthday, and we all know what happened on the day his son was born. That kid is gonna have some cool stories about his early birthdays when he gets older.

Today's Pirates notebook in the PG has a long feature on the perseverence of Ryan Vogelsong. Tracy and Littlefield both praise his recent performance and Dejan takes note of just how good Vogie has been in May. Also in the notebook: Casey's return is officially slated for today, Duke and Santos will be switched in the rotation because of Santos' work in Saturday's 18 inning affair (with the off-day on Thursday Duke is still working on normal rest), and in a very Mackowiak-ian manner, Freddy Sanchez used Saturday/Sunday's marathon game to get him enough plate appearences to qualify for the batting title, but has immediately dropped his average to .315, down to 14th in the NL.