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I enjoyed my day off so much, I believe I’ll take another. The agenda is roughly the same:
Drink coffee
Play with dogs
Watch Stargate SG-1
Play Mob Wars
Read Lillian Ross’ Reporting Back (where I learned, among other things, that the great Hungarian composer Bela Bartok once wrote a piece for Benny Goodman ; I’ll need to get my hands on a copy of that)
Pass out ...
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Published 6/27/2008 by MB at Friar Forecast
... Pads not having an advance scout. My opinion on the issue? I don’t really know (hey, what’s new?). There are some things you can only get from being there in person, I suppose. But there’s also a lot you can pick up without actually having a scout watch a team live, whether it is from video analysis or things like PITCHf/x. fwiw, here’s an older article from the USA Today on advance scouting.
There’s some good fielding analysis talk in this thread at DS (starting around post 24).
Peter Friberg has returned to blogging ...
