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I have a post on whether Cliff Floyd was a winner. Back in my bicycle delivery days, a guy I worked with was neighbors with Cliff Floyd when he signed with the Expos. He liked to talk about the car Floyd bought with his signing bonus. Around this time (1992 or so) it was…
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One of the things that’s special about playing England in soccer is that you get to play a very good team whose press you can actually understand. In this particularly instance, a sans Landon Donovan U.S. team got easily handled 2-0 in New Wembley. In truth the game wasn’t as close as that scoreline.…
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Dan Connolly is unsure whether Mike Piazza meets his requirements as a Hall of Famer. Now it’s easy to jump all over someone when they say something that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, and sometimes sensible people spout nonsense. I myself once argued that Major League pitchers have very little difference between…
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It’s Noon on May 23rd and it’s 60 degrees in Phoenix, Arizona. Considering that most pool temperatures were 20 degrees higher than that a few days ago…
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Well Fulham won their final game of the season to complete a pretty remarkable escape from relegation. Reading and Birmingham were not so lucky and will be playing in the minors next year. On the more inspiring side of the coin, perennial yo-yo club West Bromwich Albion won the league below the Premiership and…
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The Premiership side with by far the most American players is in the process of possibly completing a monumental dodge of relegation. After a 2-0 win against Birmingham, Fulham finds themselves out of the bottom three relegation spots for the first time since the very beginning of the season. They still have one more…
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I have a new post up on Baseball Digest Daily about the verbal tirade Buzz Bissinger launched against Deadspin’s Will Leitch on Bob Costas’ HBO navel gavzing exercise the other night.
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Here’s a short post on BBDD about Brian Bannister and how a statistical phenomenon could be affected by knowledge of the phenomenon by one of the actors.
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What’s funny is, Reyes isn’t always this easy to hit. Nothing takes me back to my twenties than guys spitting blood in a bar at 2:30 in the morning. Methinks that today Big Al will be hurting more from last night’s libations than the punch.
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I wrote a post on Big Soccer about the challenges that we face in individual player analysis in soccer as compared to baseball. I guess if I were to suggest a course of action for the statistical community, a soccer version of Bill James “win shares” might be the best idea. This is interesting…