I became interested in sports betting at a very early age, tuning into a Las Vegas station called KDWN when it got late enough at night that the reception was decent. Once I was in high school, and old enough to start lose my hard earned dollars from working at a local butcher shop, I […]

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Your East Windup Chronicle was recently profiled on Sports Tech Now, a site that profiles blogs and Web sites either directly or indirectly related to sports. I answer a few questions, mostly things about the short history of EWC, but also get into marketing, and the future of sports and technology.
Check it out here.

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Great photo essay taken at a toy manufacturer in Guangdong province, China. The region manufacturers about 70% of the world’s toys. I like this because these are good photos at what would appear to be a decent employer with satisfactory working conditions. Emphasis on what would appear.

Obviously the photographer was allowed to take pictures, which […]

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Simon Currie just posted a NPB Pacific League preview over at his site, which includes the comings and goings for each team.
He foresees a close race at the top between the Nippon-Ham Fighters, Marines and Hawks. Personally, I’d like to see Rakuten, with all its great young arms (like Masahiro Tanaka above) make a run at […]

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Really fun clip here as R.A. Dickey, who has a good chance of making the Mariners (and knocking Baek Cha-seung off the team), talks at length about his knuckleball. Jim Caple is the unfortunate trying to catch the thing.
One of the more interesting points is that Dickey says he throws his knuckleball faster than most […]

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