Ed Note: I wrote this last week as a fun Nomo post-career-mortem piece not even entertaining the possibility he might be signed. Nothing fancy here, just a few obscure moments from a career I’d assumed would be ending any day. Maybe there’s more to come yet.
When you think of Hideo Nomo, you likely think of […]

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Good Q&A with Paul DePodesta by RJ Anderson of Beyond the Boxscore and DRays Bay. In the interview PePodesta downplays a lot of the “Moneyball” stuff, indicating that many of the perceptions people have about the concept have more to do with Michael Lewis’ pen than some mad scientist (Beane). I think people tend to […]

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Talk about hitting the ground running. Lee Myung-bak, since being elected the new president of South Korea just a couple weeks ago, has already put into motion plans to: 

get rid, of the Unification ministry (a governement organization some would say cowtows to North Korea)
get rid of the press restrictions put in place by outgoing President Roh
install giant sea elevators that […]

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