* ‘Freak’ me out

One of my favorite blogs is Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt on The New York Times‘ Web site.

So imagine my glee when I found several baseball-related items, treated with the hosts’ usual thought-provoking and humorous style:

Since the beginning of 2008, the columns include:

• Baseball Writers Are A Rare Breed: They Don’t Want To Dictate Everyone Else’s Salaries
• How We Would Fight Steroids If We Really Meant It
• With the Stock Market Down, Perhaps Diamonds Are a Good Place to Invest
• Breaking Down the Clemens Report: A Guest Post
• More On Roger Clemens
• How Did A-Rod Get So Good?
• Bring Your Questions for Sabermetrician Bill James
• Bill James Answers All Your Baseball Questions
• A May Birthday: So That Explains Why I Was Such a Lousy Baseball Player
• A Sports-Star Stimulus Package?
• Ideas for Making Baseball More Interesting
• Would a Salary Cap Improve Baseball?
• Because, Not In Spite Of
• Baseball’s Jet Lag Drag