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What's The Best Way To Peel Baseball?
WasWatching.com — ... to admit, my annual column predicting which team will win the World Series often defies sabermetric orthodoxy, not to mention conventional logic. Sort of like baseball itself. Statistical analysis is an invaluable tool; that discussion is over. But we've gotten to the point where everyone from the casual fantasy player to the shrewdest GM wants to know the end of the story before Chapter One is written. Mercifully, that's not how the game works. Phil Allard, for one, is already on Rosenthal for this statement. It's an interesting ...

NYYFans: Allard: Rosenthal Explains Himself to Saber Community
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — NYYFans: Allard: Rosenthal Explains Himself to Saber Community I read another man who was wounded with hatred It’s hardrain a-gonna fall...on you One thing is clear: the “mainstream media” used to claim ignorance of the sabermetric community – now they seem to be running scared. There is no question in my mind that “mainstream media” now gets ideas from websites like NYYFANS, and from the kind of saber-inclined writers you read at Baseball Think Factory, Baseball Musings, waswatching, and RLYW. The conventional press reads what more intellectually engaged people are writing ...