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Random Blue Bird Droppings
Published 4/30/2008 by Dustin Parkes at Drunk Jays Fans
... Another Wednesday means another Richard Griffin Mailbag. As per usual, there's a lot wrong with this week's edition, but the master of humility did have this to say during one of his answers: ...

Foggy Countin' Breakdown
Published 4/30/2008 by Stoeten at Drunk Jays Fans
... When I saw that Parkes brought up Griff's latest mail bag in his previous post, I figured it wouldn't really be worth my time to do a little hatchet job of my own on our favourite honourary, card-carrying former member of SABR, so I scrapped what I had been working on. Fortunately for you all, there were a few things that kept gnawing at me, and I can't resist the temptation any longer. . . ...

Toronto Star: The Richard Griffin Mailbag
Published 5/1/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Toronto Star: The Richard Griffin Mailbag With Michael Kay is off trying to lock down Andre Kertesz’s nephew, Glorby and Nana Grizol for his faltering CenterStage...we are stuck with Griff. (apologies to Lorne Greene) Q: First an apology - I ripped you ruthlessly when Riccardi came to town because I thought you misunderstood the sabermetric arguments about baseball. What I failed to take into account was that General Managers need to know more than stats to be successful. You were certainly right to be cautious of some of Riccardi’s characteristics.... A: ...