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I’ve got a few responses on a few subjects regarding my mental state and the state of my intellectual capabilities. Realize that I’m mostly kidding when I take jabs at myself, but that these sorts of things do come from somewhere. Job one when I decided to do this blog was to be as honest […]

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A Q&A I did with the DRays Bay website is up. Stop by and have a look. They’re also discussing my mental state at BTF so check that out too.

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Anyone out there know of a spot on the intertubes that has a screencap or video of a This Week In Baseball with the very creepy Mel Allen claymation? It appears this actually happened and not one of those things I “remembered” happening, but were actually some sort of weird dream I had. Any help?

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J.C. Bradbury of The Baseball Economist fame and the guy who basically taught me everything I know about Baseball economics, Andrew Zimbalist are having an exchange over J.C.’s book. The amount of respect I have for both these guys far exceeds the amount of respect I have for myself (as many posts here at the […]

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Slate.com’s Tom Scocca puts on his speedos and splashes playfully around in the journalistic sewer. I once submitted an article to Slate and got turned down. After seeing this exercise in dung chucking being greenlit, the shame I feel at being turned down has multiplied tenfold. Seriously Tommy, are you kidding me? You don’t have […]

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Comma comma down dooby doo down down. Dental work, a documentary, the holidays and my own personal shortcomings have left us dark for a while and for that I apologize. So let’s do the hard work and get back up to date with a roundup post:

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I’m sure David Cameron will love this since he knows how thoughtless and unreasonable I am, despite having never met me. But once again I’m forced to express an unpopular opinion, because it happens to remain my unpopular opinion. But in an interview with JC Bradbury, Keith Law brings up an issue that gets me […]

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Seems my blog/desperate cry for help has garnered the attention of the good folks at the Sons of Sam Horn Red Sox Message Board. I particularly like the 98% accurate line “good bitter fun…from the mind of a homeless lunatic.” Almost right on the money, except I’m not bitter. Indeed, while I wish the Red […]

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Jesus, cool stuff like this (Spatial Aggregate Fielding Evaluation) makes me wish I did better in school. The recent spate of detailed play by play information has changed the way a lot of analysis is done. Used to be some mope like me would look at what Enos Slaughter did in 1939 and draw all […]

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Back before my tenure with the Red Sox, I used to do projections every year that folks seemed to like well enough. Now that I’ve resurfaced I suppose I should address whether I’m going to do them again. For the 2008 season the answer is a definite “no.” Doing them well takes time and I […]

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