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The Baseball Writers Association of America voted yesterday
to open up its membership for the first time
to web-based baseball writers. Qualified candidates were required to be “full-time baseball writers who work for websites that are credentialed ...
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Yesterday’s BBWAA decision to allow internet-based writers membership
represents progress. That should be welcomed and celebrated. There’s
still an underside. That should not be ignored. Second, Bob Dutton, the ...
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Demolition Crew
posted 5/23/2007 from
www.baseballthinkfactory.org
Great read on the Homerun with three top
hitters.
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I’m gonna pour myself a Racumin smoothie, zap
on the latest from Home Blitz, dream-ooze about Ziva
Rodann...and not get all worked up. lalalalalalalalalalala… My disinterest in baseball as a kid has lasted all my life. I’m still not interested ...
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With a big hat-tip to Deadspin… This random
guy, Joe Lavin, who’s apparently some sort of Internet
writer dumb-lucked his way into buying a copy of Canseco’s new book about two weeks early. There are three big names named - but all three have ...
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bucksox
posted 4/19/2007 from
www.baseballthinkfactory.org
Buehrle tosses no-hitter
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"(Steinbrenner, reportedly in ill health, would not agree
to be interviewed in person. He answered questions via
e-mail.)”...I guess the regular toadyrubenstein@ addy musta bounced back. (On how he feels about the Tampa Bay Devil Rays): The ...
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Harlan: The First Dangerous Vision? Make no mistake
Harlan Chamberlain, Joba’s father, is happy for his son.
But he was rather quick to admit in a telephone interview earlier this afternoon that he has some health reservations about his 21-year-old ...
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In fact, based solely on run differential, [the
D-Backs] are among the biggest overachievers in baseball history…
The Diamondbacks have scored 467 runs and allowed 496. Using James’ formula, they would be expected to have a .470 winning ...
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Mother Teresa jumped the gum? The 2007 Topps
Allen & Ginter product had barely been on the
market 48 hours when one of the best cards available was pulled by a local dealer during last week’s National Sports Collectors Convention. Chad Smith, ...
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The Missing Links...found. Big Mac - A Case
Study: Perhaps Reilly could be best summed up by
his coverage AFTER Mark McGwire found himself sniffling in front of Congress. Reilly’s next column immediately jumped on the hypocritically-righteous ...
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Read about the effort to get Bernie Brewer
his beer mug back. “It is MILLER Park. They
are the BREWERS,” one wrote. “You have to walk through 40,000 people grilling out and drinking to get there. You can’t suddenly make it a nonalcoholic ...
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Rodriguez had 28 first-place votes and 382 points
in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
Ordonez had two firsts and 258 points, and was followed by the Angels’ Vladimir Guerrero (203) and Boston’s David Ortiz (177). The ...
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What happens when you mix a professor of
sociology with a professor of statistics? This… Barry Bonds’s
career has been the most scrutinized, and in fact his home run production in the years after he supposedly started taking drugs does show ...
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Peter@BaseballReflections
posted 12/27/2007 from
www.baseballthinkfactory.org
In the fritzwicky dark matter of the CHB
Universe...perhaps. Two years ago, Rice received more votes than
any player who didn’t earn enshrinement, but last year his chances diminished because of the introduction of new candidates Cal Ripken Jr. and Tony Gwynn. The best new names on this year’s ballot are Tim Raines and David Justice. Rice beats both. ...It can only help Rice.
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This doesn’t exactly dispel the notion that Hillenbrand
is one weird dude. “It’s like Dr. Doolittle,” Hillenbrand
says. “We have animals everywhere. If you don’t get along you can’t stay.” Well, maybe. But did Doolittle ever come ...
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This goes on forever...with tons of stuff on
Andy Petit, HCH and other non-statistical goodies! T.J. Quinn:
Well, when someone sat and looked at just the numbers for Roger’s career, what conclusions do you think they drew? Rusty Hardin: Oh, I ...
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Wow!...The Whitey Ford Bulgers are wilding early this
year! The official start to the 2008 baseball season
is about a month away, but the age-old rivalry between the Yankees and Red Sox is already getting ugly. A group of men — some with Irish ...
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David Ruprecht...stick to politics! Owner Arte Moreno surprised
some three dozen Angels fans by inviting them on
an impromptu shopping spree in the team’s gift store after Friday night’s home opener. Merisa Jensen, a 25-year-old USC senior from ...
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Because he can’t be any worse than Dustin
Moseley… Nick Adenhart, the 21-year-old right-hander who is the
Angels’ top pitching prospect, will make his major league debut tonight against the A’s on three days rest. Adenhart, who was recalled ...
The Baseball Analysts: Lederer: BBWAA Opens Up Its ...