By tangotiger@yahoo.com New blog is now up and running at http://tangotiger.com/ Note the .com . I still have my old site at http://tangotiger.net
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By tangotiger@yahoo.com I’m going to (finally) spend a few hours setting up the blog. If there’s four or five of you interested in testing it, providing feedback, etc, just post a comment...
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By tangotiger@yahoo.com Terrible apology . First, they never say “I’m sorry”. In order to express remorse, you MUST say “I’m sorry”. If you say “I apologize”, you simply a...
By tangotiger@yahoo.com On NHLPA’s site, they have the 24-page MOU. Right there , on the first line, it says either side can opt-out after 8 years. And yet, right there, on the second line,...
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By tangotiger@yahoo.com React as you wish to the BBWAA: http://bbwaa.com/ Here are the results, broken up between those who made their ballots public via Repoz, and those who kept it confide...
By tangotiger@yahoo.com I am preparing my blog on my site, and am now turning The Book Blog into archive mode. If you make a comment starting from now, it may not survive. It may take one d...
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By tangotiger@yahoo.com So says this study . I still remember in Moneyball the little story of Beane talking to Dykstra, asking him how he approached hitting. Dykstra’s approach of just h...
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By tangotiger@yahoo.com If it’s to the advantage of management that a union exists, and if said management goes so far as to file a lawsuit to get the courts to force the union to exist, that...
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By tangotiger@yahoo.com This is really simple. Change to MVP-style voting, where you list players 1 through 10. First place guy gets 14 points, second gets 9, third gets 8, down to tenth ge...
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By tangotiger@yahoo.com I asked that question, and a reader went through and came up with his list. (See comment #1 below.)
By tangotiger@yahoo.com Here’s a recap of a recap . The two compliance buyouts is only common sense. NHL was at zero, and now accepted two. I doubt any team would buyout three of their ...
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By tangotiger@yahoo.com On Bill’s site, he was talking about converting scores in NFL to MLB, noting that 3 football points is like one MLB run. I responded: > In MLB, it’s about 1...
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By tangotiger@yahoo.com The argument is that if we require liability insurance for cars and if mortgage companies require the house to be insured, then apply that principle to gun ownership. ...
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By tangotiger@yahoo.com Unless they think that Gerlado/Capone made for great television and somehow increased his standing, it seems a foregone conclusion that someone has been elected to the H...
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