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2011

December, 2011

• 31 Clock-less basketball

• 31 Homegrown Teams

• 31 Compassionate Referee

• 30 Pseudonymity

• 30 Jack Morris is Brad Radke?

• 30 Quotes of 2011

• 30 Does a high-speed fastball-slider pitcher need a third pitch?

• 30 Edgar: an all-time hitter

• 29 Wanna work for the Astros?

• 29 Ricky Gervais infiltrates the one percenters by remaining a 99er

• 29 Eric Nusbaum will earn our BBWAA ulcers

• 29 Murray Chass: Selig’s Bud, Stan Kasten, is the favored new Dodgers owner

• 29 Most inconsistent HOF ballot this year?

• 29 Worst-fielders since 2002

• 29 ESPN: Whither hockey?

• 29 Psst… wanna work at MLBAM?

• 29 Irresistible patience meets immovable impatience

• 28 Thank you for 2011

• 28 From the mother’s basement, to the “sabermetricians upstairs”

• 28 Start of the LOOGY era

• 27 Poz’s implicit rule of thumb for HOF

• 27 “I’m Keith Hernandez”

• 23 “We can’t even pass a tax cut?”

• 23 Today in strawman

• 23 Louis C.K.

• 23 Bane of Canada: language

• 23 Sending runner on 3-2 count

• 23 Transaction interface

• 23 Clubhouse Confidential - Glossary

• 23 4 questions about a hypothetical pitcher…

• 22 Deserved Leverage

• 22 Banal, mean-spirited, dated jokes: LGBT

• 22 John Danks

• 22 “Acquiring Power Isn’t More Valuable When a Team Has None”

• 21 Poz on HOF Candidates

• 21 Poll: Yu, Felix, Strasburg, Kershaw?

• 21 Yu Forecast

• 21 Alan Nathan’s site

• 21 Hit and Run

• 21 Psst… wanna intern for the Orioles?

• 21 WPA on bunts

• 21 Bill Conlin

• 20 Worst hockey game of all-time?

• 20 Market forces v Central Planning

• 20 A great online chat with the new Astros GM!

• 19 Who’s your candidate?

• 19 Speculations and suspicions: The Yu Darvish Story, Jeff Bagwell, and being a sports “reporter”

• 19 Playing time levels for the Hall of Fame

• 18 Overturning a positive test

• 18 Latos and park factors

• 18 Posnanksi’s readers are smart

• 17 Too much is made of camaraderie and chemistry and all that stuff

• 17 Paterno: what he said he knew, and when he said he knew it

• 16 Bonds gets 30 days home confinement for the crime of taking too long to answer

• 16 MLB Network oddball videos

• 16 Ken Dryden, head injuries, and Grantland, part 2

• 16 Bunting for a hit

• 16 Fantastically quick change in view of DADT

• 16 NFL Rules and Competition Committee

• 16 Video Rulebook

• 15 Six members of the BBWAA suspected of plagiarism, but allowed to vote for Hall of Fame!

• 15 Lies, damned lies, and statistics: The 6 Waltons (Walmart) greater net worth than bot. 30% combined

• 15 Yu is: equal parts Felix, Zimmerman, Cueto

• 15 DIPS and BABIP

• 14 Math fun: series odds

• 14 Can the victim of abuse be an enabler?

• 14 New rules in MLB

• 13 Players self-policing

• 13 Dwight Evans: “I agree with WPA, Carbo’s HR had more impact than Fisk’s!”

• 13 Supporting the eye-test?

• 13 This week in chart failure

• 13 Ryan Braun and Bayes

• 12 Minimum number of years for immortality

• 12 This year’s contender for sanctimonious eloquence

• 12 What happens when the supporting actor usurps the main actor?

• 12 Reason computer programs are inferior to humans for college rankings: lack of critical human emotion

• 12 Jeff Luhnow, blogger-friendly

• 12 More Tim Raines HOF

• 12 What is Ozanian of Forbes saying here?

• 12 You’ve heard of teams merging?  How about teams splitting?

• 11 Differing standards for MLB and NFL regarding steroids

• 11 Fight site

• 11 Origins of violence in hockey

• 10 Pujols and Iannetta versus Abreu and Mathis

• 10 “We’re not racist! We just like saying derogatory terms against black people for fun!”

• 10 Inside the Friedman/Moore negotiations

• 09 Beer prices, for each NHL arena

• 09 Longoria II

• 09 Blocking trades

• 09 How you can make numbers lie

• 09 Velocity as a scouting variable

• 09 Irrational despondency

• 09 This week in hockey

• 09 Mike Matheny: Saber-friendly manager?

• 08 Crappy save percentage, just by luck?

• 08 Where have the Scot Shields of the world gone?

• 08 Lining up to buy value-less stock?

• 08 Another year, another Tim Raines plea

• 08 Jack Morris: Babblefest 2011

• 07 Quick WAR calculator

• 07 Theo Fleury 1, Graham James 0

• 07 Legit news outlets?

• 07 Quality of pitchers by count

• 07 Why do people (including GM’s) insist on talking about houses as if they had no mortgages?

• 07 Sons of Anarchy: Dallas’ Bobby Ewing

• 07 PITCHf/x leaderboards that span multiple seasons?

• 07 Should Buehrle and CJ Wilson even be mentioned in the same sentence?

• 07 This week in zero-tolerance golf rules

• 06 Yu Darvish is Colby Lewis?

• 06 Occam’s razor

• 06 Increase in pitcher workload

• 06 Sports fails in geography

• 06 Jayson Werth, CF

• 06 Whither Albert Pujols?

• 06 Realignment into four conferences

• 05 PITCHf/x on Fangraphs update

• 05 Are Mets’ Nick Evans and Ruben Tejada “all that” as fielders?

• 05 Is Dirk Hayhurst looking for a mainstream media job?

• 05 Congress elects Ron Santo to HOF

• 05 “He won’t be worth it in the last two years of his deal”

• 04 Arbitraging pennies for its base copper value

• 04 Fighting in the NHL

• 03 SEC v Marlins

• 03 Invisible Men

• 02 Is selling part of the game of baseball that you love?

• 02 Best of BPro Vol I and II

• 02 Improper Eject of Flash Drive

• 02 Bobby V and SaberM!

• 02 Is Mrs. DeJesus the Lebron James of baseball?

• 02 Prediction 13 years into the future

• 02 Action Comics 2.1MM$

• 01 Let the Crowd-Sourcing begin

• 01 Is there a goalie skill?

• 01 CBA: Are the Cardinals a small-market team?

• 01 Head coach carousel

• 01 Belichick tells reporters to get their noses out of their spreadsheets and watch a game