I didn’t really talk about it here on EWC, but I thought ESPN’s outing of Miguel Tejada’s age was outrageous. Classless. Well, at any rate, here’s good story from the Houston Chronicle, mostly concerning the Astros’ Wandy Rodriguez’s road to the majors, talking about how he lied about his age in order to reinvent himself […]

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The hissy fit thrown by Buzz Bissinger on the set of whatever-Bob-Costas’-HBO-show-is-called has been well-documented on blogs everywhere the past few days, but this article in this week’s edition of The Economist might help us better understand the source of Buzz’s anger.
The piece details the increasingly dire situation of the New York Times, a paper […]

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One of the biggest difficulties I have in learning how to scout players is identifying pitches and measuring how well prospects throw them. With high school and university level pitchers, the difference between a curveball, slider, or lord forbid, a cutter, isn’t always as simple as looking at the radar gun. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. Natural movement is […]

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Last month a dental nurse and several friends walked into a Higashi Matsuyama Itoyokado McDonald’s in Saitama Prefecture, but what followed was no ordinary meal.
According to the Mainichi Daily News:
The group apparently took up a corner counter not easily visible to serving staff and went about their purportedly pornographic proclivities.
Ochiai apparently spent the time with his […]

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