Thursday Morning Links

Well, I can finally go back to my normal practice of grimly ignoring the existence of the Hall of Fame with every fiber of my being, as this years' votes have been tallied and Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and Frank Thomas will be going to the Hall.

T.R. Sullivan's notes column discusses Greg Maddux going to the Hall and Yu Darvish missing the upcoming Ranger awards banquet.

The Rangers announced their coaching staffs in the minor leagues yesterday.

LSB fave Yoshinori Tateyama has signed a minor league deal with the Yankees, maybe because he is not used as a ceremonial bullet shield in New York.

Engel Beltre has been running into his fair share of outs on the basepaths in winter league play.

Richard Durrett takes a look at our catchers in his Spring Training preview.

Durrett examines the impact newly minted Hall of Famer Greg Maddux has on the current Ranger club.

Finally, in what may very well be an NSFW off topic link, Cormac McCarthy's ex-wife threatened her boyfriend with a gun she had secreted in a place the sun doesn't shine. Not THE place the sun doesn't shine, mind you, but one of the possible places that it makes rare, if any, appearances. She also asked "who is crazy, you or me" while doing something with the gun which clearly rendered the question rhetorical. They were apparently arguing about space aliens. And I checked, that's the entire summary of their argument so if the only reason you were going to clickthrough was to find out what on earth could have provoked this insanity you're poop out of luck.