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Baseball Reflections Store Grand Opening | Baseball Reflections
Baseball Reflections Store Grand Opening | Baseball Reflections

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 6 days ago from baseballreflections.com

We have just opened up an online Marketplace for Baseball Reflections.com merchandise via CafePress. In our new store, you will find T-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs and more. Here is a sample of two of our shirts:

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Party's over
Party's over

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 16 days ago from scottproctorsarm.blogspot.com

Boston won their game tonight, mathematically eliminating the Yankees from playoff contention for the first time since the Yankees won the wild-card in 1995. Oh what a ride it's been.

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Moose wins 19th on E-Day
Moose wins 19th on E-Day

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 16 days ago from scottproctorsarm.blogspot.com

Mike Mussina won his 19th game of the season tonight, pitching five shutout innings while striking out six and allowing four runs. His season ERA is down to 3.47. He is scheduled to start on Sunday in Boston on the last day of the season. This at least gives us something to root for after the

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The Best Statement I Read Today

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

“When it comes to professional sports, we become socialists. With everybody else, we’re capitalists.” That’s New York Assemblyman Richard Brodsky commenting on public subsidies to the new Yankee Stadium . He continues. “Critics on both the left and right have decried these taxpayer

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Gwinnett’s $15 Million Myth
Gwinnett’s $15 Million Myth

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

A few weeks ago, there was a rumor circulating that a carcass of a Bigfoot creature had been discovered in north Georgia. The only problem was that no one had been allowed to see more than pictures of it frozen in a cooler. Upon further investigation, the mass of skin and fur was revealed to be

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Gwinnett DA Calls Stadium Spending Irresponsible

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

Per Patrick Fox for AJC: Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter called it irresponsible when Gwinnett County commissioners voted to fund $19 million in cost overruns and upgrades for the new Gwinnett Braves stadium project last week. The decision left Porter flabbergasted. “I think the commi

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A Simple Way to Frame the Gwinnett Stadium Tax Burden

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

If you are a Gwinnett taxpayer, how much will the stadium cost your family? Here is the simple answer: $110 this year plus $3 per year for the next 30 years, for a grand total of $200 per household. What percentage of the construction costs will be borne by taxpayers? 76% Here is where these numbers

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My Response to the Mitchell Report Study Response

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

My response to Brian J. Schmotzer, Jeff Switchenko, and Patrick D. Kilgo’s reply to my criticism of their study follows. I would like to thank the authors for offering their response; however, I do not think their explanations succeed in validating their study. First let me address a few minor issue

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Kudos to Gwinnett Daily Post

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

I’ve been critical of Gwinnett Daily Post’s coverage of the Braves stadium, because it has been slanted towards the pro-stadium position. I was happy to see the editors criticize the Board of Commissioners’s handling of the recent budget increase. We expect more due diligence from our County Commiss

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Even More on the Gwinnett Stadium Cost Increase

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

Last week, the Gwinnett Board of Commissioners approved a $19 million budget increase to fund the new Gwinnett Braves stadium. It turns out that though the Board didn’t mention a word of the cost increase until the Friday before Labor Day, and voted on it the following Tuesday without discussion,

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A Response to My Critique of the Mitchell Report Study

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

I have received a response to my critique of Did Steroid Use Enhance the Performance of the Mitchell Batters? The Effect of Alleged Performance Enhancing Drug Use on Offensive Performance from 1995 to 2007 by Brian J. Schmotzer, Jeff Switchenko, and Patrick D. Kilgo. What follows is the authors’

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The Relevance of Kenerly’s Ownership Stake

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

As I mentioned in my previous post , the AJC claims to have viewed records that show that Gwinnett County Commissioner Kevin Kenerly did not purchase a tract of land near the new Gwinnet Braves stadium in October 2007. Even if this is the case, I think the AJC is missing the big story and not proper

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Gwinnett’s Phantom Menace Revealed
Gwinnett’s Phantom Menace Revealed

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

Though it’s not my favorite movie of the Star Wars saga, the premise of The Phantom Menace is a good one. We begin with a few officials bending laws for personal gain. It’s a familiar occurrence in life, but it just didn’t feel right; there had to be something else at work. We later learn that the

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More on “Democracy”
More on “Democracy”

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

The decision Tuesday to spend another $19 million of Gwinnett County’s savings to pay for a 50 percent cost increase in the county’s new stadium was so straightforward, it didn’t require any public discussion or debate, county commissioners said. The commission voted to spend the money as part of it

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“Democracy” at Work

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

AJC The Gwinnett County Commission will vote today to spend another $19 million on its new baseball stadium without debate or public discussion . At its morning work session today, the commission voted to add the payment to its “consent agenda,” a package of issues voted on with a single vote and no

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Introducing General Gimme
Introducing General Gimme

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

The winner of Sabernomics.com’s name-the-Gwinnett-Braves-mascot contest is General Gimme. J. McCann had the initial suggestion of “Gwinnett’s Gimme Gimme”. Maybe not a precisely accurate portrayal of everyone involved, but captures the attitude, I think Bruce modified the concept, drawing from the

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More on the Gwinnett Braves Cost Increase

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

Yesterday , we learned that the Gwinnett Braves stadium is expected to cost $19 million more than the initial projection of $40 million. With the $5 million land purchase, the project is on track to total $64 million. Today, Michael Pearson provides some more detail in the AJC . Here’s what county

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I Told You So

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

Gwinnett County’s new baseball stadium will cost nearly 50 percent more than originally planned, officials revealed Friday. The 10,000-seat stadium for the top minor league franchise of the Atlanta Braves will now cost $59 million. County officials initially projected the stadium would cost $40 mill

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You Can’t Blame Frenchy for the Braves Woes…Or Can You?

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

From David Pinto . One thing that amazed me during the writing was how much Jeff Francoeur hurt the Braves this season. The Braves have only been outscored 612-590; they should be around a .500 team, not a .435 team. With any kind of decent power from Francoeur, the Braves likely add 30 runs. With a

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Is Hank Aaron Leaving Atlanta for Chicago?

Peter@BaseballReflections Peter@BaseballReflections posted 23 days ago from www.sabernomics.com

John Manasso writes on Hank Aaron’s role in Sports Properties Acquisitions Corp (SPAC), which is one of the final groups bidding to purchase the Chicago Cubs. The story was originally written for Atlanta Business Chronicle , but Sporting News Today also picked up the story, which you can read here f

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