For being locked in a battle to the death for the eyes of you, the Internet reader, we Yahooligans don't take very many shots against the ESPN.commers in a friendly (or is it?) rivalry sort of way.

So here's a chin-seeking jab just to see what it feels like: I really enjoyed Jim Caple's piece on Japanese pitching sensation Yu Darvish ... when Jeff Passan wrote it  two months ago.

(Whew! Wow! For a minute there, it felt like I was working at the Chicago Sun-Times and hurling rocks at the Tribune Tower. Exhilarating! I feel so alive!)

Elsewhere in the baseball blogosphere ...

• Let me reiterate: Jim Edmonds putting on a Cubs jersey will not make me like him any more. I've never liked him or his needless theatrics in St. Louis' center field. I never will. Plus he's so washed up that the freakin' Padres cut him. Why is Jim Hendry bringing him in again? Were things not already going well? I'm far from the only person who feels this way. [View From The Bleachers]

• I love those facts that you just can't quite believe. That Brad Ausmus has been a Major League catcher for 17 seasons is one of them. Brad Ausmus? That long? Really? [The Astros Dugout]

• If I were to say that a Major League Baseball player almost broke a pink bat over his knee on Sunday, what are the odds that you'd say it was probably Milton Bradley? [Bugs & Cranks]

• Goose Gossage's mustache does not like Joba Chamberlain's ostentatious displays. How's that for irony? [LoHud Yankees Blog]

• More on Ken Griffey's possible return to Seattle. [USS Mariner]