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ESPN: Neyer: Recapping the SABR convention (Insider)
Published 7/10/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
ESPN: Neyer: Recapping the SABR convention (Insider) “You’re with me, flannel” and for a short time in Cleveland...we all were. Anyway, every year somebody asks me what happens at a SABR convention. ...Also, for the last few years the convention has been a wonderful opportunity to see how Baseball Think Factory’s “Primates” behave when they’re not being chaperoned. ...• Anthony Giacalone—one of those Primates I mentioned—on “Baseball and America in the Summer of ‘65.” He tied everything together: baseball, Vietnam, the counter-culture, Dylan going electric at the Newport ...

Can Mark Shapiro Interest You In A Corner Utilityman?
Published 7/10/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Craig Calcaterra) at ShysterBall
The Indians are shopping Casey Blake, the most bearded member of the Time's Arrow All-Stars. For my own sense of self-worth, I hope be brings actual value as opposed to a phantom PTBNL, but I realize that this is just wishcasting. The article says that his ability to play third, first, and both corners in the outfield could be valuable on a contender, but given that those skills have never been truly valuable on the Indians, I'm not sure that's as much analysis as it is politeness. Still, he does have a .354 OBP this year and is posting one of his better overall seasons. As for what the Indians will do for a third baseman, it ...