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Entries from December 2007

Claymation Mel Allen

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Intellectual Heavyweights Slug It Out over Intellectual Lightweight

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments

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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A Three Quarters of the Way Until April Fools Joke?

December 15th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Catching Up is Hard to Do

December 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments

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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