Thursday 1/19 News, Notes, and Links

Gonna start trying to get a small post up every morning highlighting some current topics and pointing out some articles from across the web that you might find interesting. Let's get it going.There's obviously not a lot going on in baseball this week but we'll do our best.The arbitration deadline was Tuesday morning, and the Pirates still had two eligible players, Garrett Jones and Casey McGehee, unsigned. That doesn't mean it's too late to sign them however, since arbitration hearings wouldn't be set up until sometime between February 1st and 15th, and the sides are free to negotiate until then. I don't understand the whole "deadline" thing if you can just continue to work out a deal after it has passed, but baseball does a lot of things that don't make a ton of sense. Anyways, Jones and McGehee are both very close to getting the deals they want from the Pirates, so I would imagine that they both get contracts before February and they avo...