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With the Brewers’ elimination from the playoffs, speculation
about the future of hired gun CC Sabathia has
already started. And though the Brewers only brought in Sabathia in for a 2008 playoff run, the front office is open to the idea of ...
From Will Carroll and Eric Seidman .
Andre Ethier recently said that he felt he was seeing better pitches with Manny Ramirez batting behind him….To test this, I looked at the Pitch F/X data for Ethier from 3/31 to 8/27, when he was not hitting ahead of Manny, and compared it to the data ...
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Manny Ramirez
Will Carroll
Andre Ethier
Congratulations to Dave B. for correctly predicting that Jeff Francoeur would walk 39 times this season. The early-season part of The French God of Walks contest was won by the first entrant, and David B. was the second entrant. Also interesting is that the first entrant, Jack, would have won ...
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Atlanta Braves
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Kyle Lohse has agreed to a four-year, $41
million contract with the St. Louis Cardinals. It wasn’t
that long ago when Lohse was looking for work. He supposedly turned down a three-year $20 million offer during the previous off-season, before ...
The AJC runs a piece this morning that looks at the role of stadium construction on economic development. Dennis Coates explains the findings from the economics literature.
But economists almost unanimously agree such stadium deals are bad for taxpayers. A 2005 survey found 90 percent of ...
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Atlanta Braves
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$700 billion could build 437.5 new Yankee Stadiums.
I’m not sure which is more absurd: that $700
billion buys so many stadiums or that it buys so few.
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Per AJC .
“We need to demonstrate to our citizens that we are doing everything we possibly can,” County Administrator Jock Connell said Wednesday after announcing the initiative.
The groups will seek to find $35 million in reduced expenses or increased revenues, and should make their ...
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Atlanta Braves
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Terance Moore reveals some infighting within the Braves
organization involving some guys at the very top. When
Hank Aaron leaves you a message to call his southwest Atlanta home as soon as possible, you dial his number even faster than that. Said ...
I went to the Braves-Phillies game at Turner Field last night. As with all games at the Ted, it was a fun affair. It turns out that it was Gwinnett Braves night, and my seats were right around the corner from a suite reserved for the Gwinnett Braves.
As I waited in line for my $1 hot ...
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Turner Field
Ted Lilly
This editorial in the Rome News-Tribune is too good not to post the whole thing. I can’t find anything to cut. Please visit the paper’s website to patronize its advertisers. The paper also offers a link to e-mail the article to anyone whom you think might be interested.
Gwinnett ...
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I’m not going to deny that there are
plenty of legitimate reasons for firing Ned Yost. I
don’t have an opinion on the issue. What I do know is that his firing wasn’t motivated by these reasons. The Brewers have been a nice story ...
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Peter@BaseballReflections
posted 20 days ago from
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“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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Peter@BaseballReflections
posted 20 days ago from
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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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Peter@BaseballReflections
posted 20 days ago from
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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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Peter@BaseballReflections
posted 20 days ago from
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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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Peter@BaseballReflections
posted 20 days ago from
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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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Peter@BaseballReflections
posted 20 days ago from
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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
What Will CC Sabathia Get?