Hey kids - a little preview of what is headed your way over the next few days.

• The third installment of the Matt Watson interview, which will knock your socks off their asses.
  
  Part I of the MW interview
  
  
  Part II of the MW interview
  




• The Baseball Prospectus Pecota projections are in; and I'll give you the lowdown on the numbers and the cramp-like-pain-ers. (What is PECOTA?)





• Baseball Prospectus has a Pizza Feed tomorrow night in Walnut Creek. It should not be missed by any A's fan or baseball geek.





• Stephen Shelby and his Giants Diary (purest form of a baseball blog in the world) has landed an interview with John Manuel on the Giants Prospects and he'll hip us to that as soon as Baseball America publishes. There might be some follow up on this between the two of us and hopefully BA's Kevin Goldstein and John Manuel.




• I'll have a complete Spring Training Guide for everyone headed to Arizona including tips on what and what not to do and see (HINT - DON'T try and buy tickets in Arizona for a Cubs game the day of the game...DO buy tickets for a Cubs game now, and scalp the tickets, paying for your whole trip in a matter of hours.)




• I'll also be able to solidify a cast of half a dozen who are going to be interviewed between now and Opening Night.

ELEPHANT TRAMPLES CIRCUS WORKER TO DEATH

From the Associated Press

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - An elephant being loaded onto a truck trampled a circus animal trainer to death at Memorial Coliseum, police said.


Three handlers were loading the elephant Monday as crews packed up from this weekend's Shrine Circus, officials said. Two of the workers left the trailer and one man stayed behind to lock the trailer door.


A coliseum employee later saw the man lying inside a semitrailer with the elephants and alerted other handlers, said Victor Hopkins, spokesman for the Allen County Sheriff's Department. The man was taken to a hospital and died a few hours later.


Police said they did not know how many times the elephant stepped on the man, whose name was not released.


The elephants were calm when the other handlers returned to check on the man.


The U.S. Department of Agriculture (news - web sites), which regulates circuses through the Animal Welfare Act, is looking into the incident, USDA spokesman Darby Holladay said.


Representatives of the circus could not be located for comment Tuesday.


Elephants are the largest of all land animals, and depending on the sex and species they could reach 13 feet in height and weigh up to 6.5 tons, according to the Humane Society of the United States' Web site.


Captive elephants from 1990 to 2003 killed 65 people and injured 130, according to Circuses.com.

Speaking of circus workers and elephants crushing them...Nick Peters of the Sacramento Bee. Prepare to be ripped apart.