Mark up those calendars

You know what's the perfect remedy for awful baseball-induced blues? Next year's schedule! Actually, I don't see the full schedule anywhere, which means that you can't get out your pencil and try to plot the road to 121 just quite yet.

There's an important point in DK's morning links post today in which he responds to Wilbur Miller's questions about Jose Tabata needing to be put on the 40-man roster this winter to be protected from the Rule 5. It's all very confusing, but the key point remains that Tabata is 19 years old and not older.

Charlie notes some "Voice of Fate" stuff coming from Pirates.com. It's not that it's new, it's just that it's really, really depressing.