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Baseball: Is it time to rethink our "National Pastime"?
I love baseball. I love it in sepia toned photographs. I adore watching old men with names like Stan, Ted, Whitey, and Sparky, carry on about the old days in front of a soft focus lens that would make Diane Sawyer weep with delight. I love sabermetricians, Billy Beane, and Money Ball. I love...
Paul DePodesta On Clubhouse Confidential (Video)
Paul DePodesta was on MLB Network's Clubhouse Confidential with Brian Kenny this evening, which is great. What's not so great is that there was hardly any new ground covered. Kenny asked a lot about how DePodesta got into the baseball business — he played baseball and football at Harvard and his...
Washington Nationals' Left-Hander Gio Gonzalez On MLB Network Radio.
D.C. GM Mike Rizzo described 26-year-old lefty Gio Gonzalez as a, "... a front-line starter with glowing credentials the vast majority of which were achieved before his 26th birthday," in a press release on the deal that got the Washington Nationals the pitcher they'd been searching for all winter....
Oakland A's Allegedly Granted Rights to Move to San Jose
Now I'm not sure if this is 100 percent accurate but Bob Nightengale of USA Today is reporting that the A's will be granted permission to move to San Jose. It won't happen until February if Nightengale is right but it's mixed news for A's fans.I linked to it on Facebook and basically said, "Sucks...
The Billy Beane I Know: The Man Behind the Moneyball Myth
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Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, Post-Moneyball, Visits Athletics Nation Part III
Yesterday you had part 2 of AN's exclusive interview with Billy Beane. Wednesday you had part 1. Today the interview with Beane concludes. I want to thank Billy for sitting down and chatting with me for such a long period of time the Monday after Moneyball was released. I hope you really enjoyed it...
Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, Post-Moneyball, Visits Athletics Nation - Part II
Yesterday was the first part of the Billy Beane exclusive for Athletics Nation. Today you get part 2 where Billy delves into Moneyball, the minor league system and where he actually was for that mammoth 20th consecutive win. Remember the conclusion hits Friday morning. <!--[if gte mso...
Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, Post-Moneyball, Visits Athletics Nation - Part I
It's been quite a month for Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane. He was the subject of a movie that's come in second at the box office two weeks in a row (twice to children's movies). There has been persistent rumors that Beane is the main candidate to take over the vacant Chicago Cubs GM...
The REAL Moneyball player (and how I would've adapted the book to the big screen)
Moneyball premiers today and I'm really really wanting it to be good. Like I desperately want it to be good. Because here's the thing. If it's good, then people will realize that the book is about the people in the front office and not so much their tactics. Sun Tzu is popularly misquoted as...
The San Diego Padres and the REAL Moneyball Players
Moneyball, the movie, is coming out soon. Though it reads like science fiction, and contrary to popular belief, the movie and the book were both based on events that actually happened. Anybody who says that Moneyball is about the players on the field, a particular type of approach to at-bats, or...
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