Nein, Nein, Oh Nein

MLB.com decided to celebrate Beatles: Rock Band Day by dressing (their website) to the nines--and posting an article about the most thrilling and scintillating part of baseball: filling out the lineup card. Yawn! Rather than regale us with statistical models determining whether pencil-filled or pen-filled cards have a higher winning percentage, or whether poor penmanship could give you lineup flexibility (I always wondered if the Braves' Bobby Cox was allowed to wait until the last second to decide which Jones, Andruw or Larry, would occupy the earlier Jones-designated lineup slot), mlb.com decided to ask managers like the Dodgers' Joe Torre, the Cardinals' Tony La Russa, and the aforementioned Cox how they fill out their lineup cards. Which got us pearls of wisdom like this: MLB.com: If there is an art to filling out a lineup card, what is an important lesson you can pass along to others? La Russa: I think the thing you do more than anything else is you have to l...