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Baseball Infographics

Craig Robinson has created a set of amazing baseball infographics over at Flip Flop Fly Ball. One of my favorites is “Home Team Dugouts” (below) which shows the side that MLB teams use as their home dugout. Before seeing this graphic, I thought the home dugout was nearly always on the on the first baseline… [...]

Fantasy Baseball Sleepers (2009)

It’s that time of year again! This year I am playing fantasy baseball again on Yahoo! My pick of the year last year was Nate McLouth (Pirates) in one of the last rounds, who made the cut this year as one of my five keepers in a 16-team league. In 2007, I managed to snag [...]

Sarah Palin Strikes Out in PA

On her stop in Pittsburgh, Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin congratulated the Philadelphia Phillies on their World Series victory. Pirates fans didn’t like that.

Baseball Statistics vs. Electoral Projections

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight was interviewed earlier this month by Dan Rather. In the interview, he talks about his interest in statistics with baseball, how it compares to political projections, and how projections are done. Silver created the baseball PECOTA sabermetric system in 2002-2003, and sold it to Baseball Prospectus in 2003. Silver is a [...]

The Onion: Yankees Building Vacation Stadium In The Hamptons

The Onion News Network, one of my favorite video podcasts, has just released a parody video of the New York Yankees and their thick wallet. It’s probably one of my favorite episodes they have ever done.

The Evil Empire closed the doors to Yankee Stadium on September 21, 2008. The Yanks failed to make the playoffs [...]