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Baseball’s true opening day is on Monday, but the domestic soccer season gets underway in an hour as MLS begins its 13 season of existence. I guess it’s just a personal preference, but when a baseball fan who also likes soccer learns that I’m a bit of a soccer guy myself, that fan often asks […]

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Nick Piecoro has a piece in today’s Arizona Republic about Stephen Drew’s upcoming season in which I get a mention. I really appreciate that some of the sportswriters now see statistical work as a means to explain what it is many people actually see during the games (like Drew hitting into a little bad luck). […]

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The Red Sox and A’s will soon square off in the Far East to kick off the regular season. The rest of the teams get their start in a week or so and then we’ll be off. I’m a baseball fan, but I don’t think I’m enough of one to stay up until the wee […]

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Have a post up on Baseball Digest Daily about my conversation with Royals’ starter Brian Bannister today. Read all about it there. I just wanted to restate my thanks for Brian for taking extra time out to talk to me for a bit. Also Brian says he’s going to be doing a semi-regular thing on […]

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The Cincinnati Reds have sent uber-prospect Jay Bruce down to the minor leagues to start the 2008 season. Response from the stat geek corner of the web has been swift:

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Well this bizarre version of Olympic qualifying reaches it’s conclusion tonight as two teams will earn their tickets to China and two teams will come up one step short. In the opener, Honduras will face Guatemala and the second game will pit the U.S. and Canada against one another. I don’t like winner take all […]

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Kenny Williams may occasionally take more grief from the stat geek community than warranted, but he’s gonna deserve what they’re about to say this time. Mere months after signing Juan Uribe to a one year $4.5 million deal, they have apparently placed him on waivers. No one with any sense is going to claim him […]

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Dave at Brock for Broglio interviewed me and it is now up at his site. Interestingly, soon after my interview was posted, Monster.com sent me an e-mail with tips on how to improve my interview IQ. Are they trying to tell me something?

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This is becoming truly bizarre. First a female streaker interrupts the U.S. vs. Honduras match last night (the U.S. won 1-0 to win their group). But that’s nothing compared to the shenanigans going on today. In the early game in the other group, Canada earned a very interesting 5-0 win over group leaders Guatemala. The […]

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