Links for your weekend reading pleasure

With a bit of a calm before the World Cup final on Sunday and the All-Star festivities starting up on Monday, here's some good links for your reading pleasure.

- First from Bill Simmons, one of his annual columns that I enjoy the most... his NBA Trade Value Index... always worth a read.

- Mark Prior offered a two-year extension by the Disabled List. The Onion pretty much rocks my socks off.

- Now this is what the law is all about!

- Nadal vs. Federer. We've been here before.

- So yeah... A.J. Pierzynski? Definitely better than the best hitter in the AL or the AL ERA leader! /sarcasm

- In a slow sports day, here's a list of more boring sports stuff!

- So yeah... I'm pretty glad I took John Lackey in every fantasy league I could, after he was perfect after allowing a leadoff double. 10 Ks, 1 hit, 0 BB. 7-5 with a 2.88 ERA.

Anyway, I apologize if my writing has been spotty lately... I've been real busy with work and just mostly enjoying my summer whenever I can, so I've been kind of lazy. I'll have something that hopefully cool involving the MLB, probably sometime after the ASB, and then as we get closer and closer to the end of summer I might slow down more. And then of course, as I get into the school year, I'll probably have more free time (funny how that works), plus we'll be getting into another high spot of the sports year, where I'll be a little more motivated. So I have that going for me, which is nice.

Until then, don't forget to recycle!