Don’t miss this one; a fairly detailed and fascinating interview with Chris Long, who is officially the Senior Quantitative Analyst for the San Diego Padres. Basically, the guy who utilizes, and attempts to come up with new ways to look at, statistics for the team.
I like this interview because even though it verges on some […]

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If you live in Korea you can watch tongiht’s KBS follow-up to last month’s program exposing the disturbing tendency of women’s basketball coaches raping their players. If you don’t live in Korea you can just sit back and wretch while you read this.
From a Korea Beat translationof a Sports Chosun article:

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The following is a comment I posted on Baseball Think Factory Earlier today, regarding the Selig in China article I linked to just prior. I’m curious what you guys think of this. By the time I saw this on BBTF I think it was a little old (my comment is #40). You can also check that for […]

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One more MLB in China piece and then we’ll be done till next season’s (I can only assume) exhibition.
This is a kinda goofy MLB.com joint about Bud Selig proclaiming baseball will soon be big in China. Unfortunately, Selig will pass up the opportunity to hang out in Asia for five or six days, and will […]

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