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THT Live: Star Trek sabermetrics
hardballtimes.com - 4/10/2008
THT Live: Star Trek sabermetrics
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This has nothing to do with baseball, but I just love this post exploring the "common wisdom" that red-shirt Enterprise crew members are most likely to die . The surprising finding? Red-shirt crew members are much less likely to die if Kirk "meets" a woman. If this guy were a baseball fan, he'd be a true sabermetrician.

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Basement Dwellers:  Friday Night Links: Goodyear, Dunn's clutchiness, and MLB customer service

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Friday Night Links: Goodyear, Dunn's clutchiness, and MLB customer service
Basement Dwellers — Reds headed to Goodyear With a successful vote by the Goodyear City Council, the Reds are destined for Goodyear in 2010. I still think that this probably is not in Goodyear's best interests. But then again, it apparently is still possible that the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority could still end up chipping in for a significant portion of the Reds facility, so it might turn out to be a smaller investment on Goodyear's part than we originally had heard. Furthermore, apparently there is at least one financial plan indicating that Goodyear can still accomplish much of what Joanne Osborne previously ...

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