Here are your hot links as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans...
*Tyler Kepner writes about Biggio's beanings, and Biggio remembers Patron Saint Dickie Thon.
*Biggio and Randy Johnson talk about 1998.
*Mark Appel tweeted a picture of him getting Biggio's autograph as a kid.
*Here's an interesting - I guess - article from the NYDN about how the Mets were totally gonna take Biggio in the draft, but the Astros got him first.
*Matt Ehalt reflects on Biggio's time at Seton Hall.
*Anthony Castrovince says that, if Max Scherzer doesn't return to Detroit, the Astros "might be the most likely fit."
We didn't come out here to play tiddlywinks, son.
-Hal Smith
