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Jeff Sackmann has a Pirates preview up at Beyond the Boxscore. It's worth it to read it all, but to boil it down: What's too bad is that so much young talent--Bay, Duke, Sanchez, and others--is going wasted on what will probably be a 70-win team until they hit free agency.

Webmaster Cory has moved the Roundtable to MVN after some MLBlogs trouble so change your bookmarks. Round 10's questions are posted and the first of them intersects with the long post below.

Commenter and fellow Duke Eric has started up a sports satire site call The Personal Foul, so check it out when you get the chance.

Here's UniWatch's take on the Heinz Ketchup 57th alternate uniforms.

MLB links: Bonds' contract with the Giants is finalized and if he's healthy it's worth a ton of money but if he's indicted the team can release him, the Rockies say the Helton deal is off which means it should be finalized by Friday, Curt Schilling says he'll be pitching in 2008 rather than running against John Kerry for a Senate seat (no kidding), and finally, Sammy Sosa is back where it all started with a minor league deal with the Rangers.