Three for Thursday

I wonder how bitter a pill it is for Luis Gonzalez to sign with the Florida Marlins.

The [one-year, $2 million] contract for the 40-year-old Gonzalez includes $1 million in performance bonuses.

I can understand if he signed with his hometown Rays à la Fred McGriff, but the Marlins…? At the very least, I suppose he can provide some solid mentoring for phenom Cameron Maybin.
The University of Tennessee is retiring Todd Helton’s baseball number, #3. Helton’s is the first-ever retired by Tennessee’s baseball program. (In case you were wondering, Helton wore #2 as the Volunteers’ QB.)
MLB looks to Harlem for its MLB Network headquarters.

The planned building, to be developed by Vornado Realty Trust, would rise 21 stories in an interlocking set of luminescent glass cubes at 125th Street and Park Avenue and would be the first prime office tower to be built in Harlem in more than three decades.

So what’s the name of this network again? The Baseball Network or The MLB Network?

Let’s hope it’s not the former; it reminds me too much of the awful “Network” from 1995 that showed only one regional playoff game on a given night.

(Hat tip: Shysterball)