Cleaning out the inbox

We start the cleaning of the inbox with an article on Andrew Wiggins on the reality of being in the pro game from Fox Sports.
I've been desperately hoping against hope that that the Cavaliers will be able to hold onto Wiggins in the prospective Kevin Love trade because I love his game.
I still believe that the Cavaliers would have been better served waiting a little while to gain Kevin Love and I also still believe that the asking price would have dropped over time.
I understand the lust for a title for Cleveland fans-I have it just as bad,I think that holding onto Andrew Wiggins would have made things more sustainable long-term....

The Oklahoma City Thunder are trying an unusual end around the NBA rules with an attempt to "draft and stash" Stanford forward Josh Husetis in the D-League.
The catch is that Huestis has to refuse his NBA mandated rookie slot contract of over a million dollars to take far less to play in the D-League.
As in 25,000 dollars to play the season there.
The Thunder gambles that Huestis doesn't sign it and takes him at his word that he doesn't,Huestis gambles that he can develop his game there and make up those earnings later with a more improved game.
It'll be interesting to see how this works out...

I rarely link to Herald-Mail articles,but this one that discusses why the Hagerstown Suns are drawing so poorly is worth a look.
The article talks to fans,although the author didn't do a good job of talking to fans that are regulars,about their thoughts on why the Suns attendance is lousy.
There are plenty of excuses by various people quoted in the article,but two things that are only lightly touched and yet loom as the two largest reasons for this problem-the decrepit state of the stadium and that fact that the Suns have been so transparent about heading out of town.
Pretty tough to hook fans when you have stated you don't really want to be around....

Grantland writes about the seemingly revived Tim Lincecum and makes a case that the Giant pitcher has had various issues that accumulated into the decline and perhaps the return.
Very interesting if you like more than the everyday statistics and even more so if you like Lincecum and the Giants....

Hardball Times reviews a new book about the AA Southern League that covers the time period of 1965 to the present and looks like a good read.\
It appears to be a book long on characters known and less known and I'm considering getting it sometime in the future.
Former Indian rookie of the year Joe Charboneau is pictured on the cover from his year with the Chattanooga Lookouts in a tuxedo while sipping champagne at a table placed on the field.

We wrap up with a link to the Moon.
More specifically what the landing spots of the Apollo missions look like today from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
What they look like is just about like things looked when the Apollo astronauts left after their mission.
As the article states,erosion is an extremely gradual process on the moon and those footprints would still be visible if you arrived there today...

Consider things cleaned out for a while-Back for more next time!