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2012

December, 2012

• 31 Fay Vincent on Donald Fehr

• 31 The Book - Report Any Printing Problems

• 31 BBWAA v Book Blog Readers

• 31 Arachnophobia

• 31 Ripoff movies

• 28 Testing UZR, DRS, and SAFE

• 28 Yet another BBWAA declines to be a Holy Writer

• 28 NHL’s makes latest final final final offer

• 28 Testing the pure-rookie forecasts

• 28 Pitcher v Pitcher

• 27 Correlations and meanings

• 27 What are forecasts?

• 27 MLB batting practice caps

• 27 How much money would you spend on season tickets?

• 27 Crowdsourcing… height and weight?

• 27 Integrity of a season

• 27 Situational walks

• 27 Passwords: most and least common

• 26 How do you bid on ebay?

• 26 Control groups

• 26 Memento - a decade later

• 25 Why Curt Schilling but not Kevin Brown?

• 25 Bias in ERA

• 24 FIP is… as FIP does

• 24 Steubenville High

• 24 Prospects 2006

• 24 When Russia claims to better treat its business and workers, you know you are in bad shape

• 24 Slow-death of ERA?

• 24 kwERA Awareness

• 22 Youngest Historian and Future Saberist?

• 22 Catchers in the Hall of Fame

• 21 The Book is again available at Amazon

• 21 Bettors and sports

• 21 kwERA

• 21 Game Theory: Pitch Selection Model

• 20 Soccer jerseys, based on MLB uniforms

• 20 Hitter performance based on the identity of his team’s pitcher

• 20 Where to bat your best (and worst) batter

• 20 Raines’ best game, with last at bat called by Vin Scully

• 19 Strike Zone: actual v book

• 19 Fehr speaks

• 19 How many years does it take to sign Trout for 100MM$?

• 19 How much should the NHL give to the players?

• 18 Empathy or isolation?

• 18 David Chase finally explains Sopranos ending

• 17 Two faces of NHL, as seen by Larry Brooks

• 17 Second Amendment

• 17 NHL v NHLPA, Canada v USA

• 17 Crowd v Actual

• 17 Fehr/Fehr balance

• 17 Cabrera 2011 > Cabrera 2012

• 16 Do we need jousting in football?

• 16 Bleg: Music Sheet for SpongeBob’s Don’t Be Jerk, It’s Christmas

• 16 Platoon based on fielding, not hitting?

• 16 MySQL Retrosheet Database

• 15 NHL prepares a lawsuit the way we prepare a resume

• 14 Disclaimer of Interest!  Now we’ve got a party

• 14 If the GOP were smart, they’d make the smart guys in charge

• 14 What to expect from a workhorse pitcher?

• 14 WOWY on baseball managers’ propensity to greenlight runners

• 14 Runs or Wins for forecasting?

• 14 Is Hitting Contagious?

• 13 Expanding NFL playoffs

• 13 Dear Ira Podell

• 13 Without the threat of a strike, can sports unions possibly survive?

• 13 Are minor league performances AS reliable as major league performances, all other things equal?

• 13 Mark Cuban on negotiations

• 13 Concert 121212

• 13 “Selfish, selfish Dickey wants to be paid almost adequately”

• 13 Fehr v Bettman, via Chass

• 13 Smoltz or Glavine?

• 13 Old LHH should retire at Yankee Stadium

• 12 Where is the NHL bargaining session?

• 12 Jim Quinn: NHL’s Santa?

• 12 Did John Dujay say the least informative thing about a hockey player ever?

• 12 Are there too many NHL games?

• 12 Leave high-quality talent alone?

• 12 When to intentionally allow a TD

• 11 Donald Fehr: Batman

• 11 R.A. Price

• 11 Offense v Defense blips

• 11 Paradigm shift: Long-term contracts

• 11 Is Gary Bettman John Ziegler?

• 11 Is Olympics going to be the next bargaining chip?

• 10 Why does Fehr want escrow limits?

• 10 Non-existing 25% variance requirement

• 10 How that NHL bargaining session sans-Fehr came to be

• 10 National Histrionics League continues: more games cancelled

• 10 Ron Leflore

• 10 Chilly D’s Sports Lounge

• 10 Veterans for prospects

• 10 NHL players more knowledgeable than NHL owners

• 09 NHL Free agent contracts: same team or not

• 09 Hardball Times 2013 Annual Review - partial

• 09 Don Fehr speaks

• 08 NHL miscommunication

• 08 Disclaimer of interest the light at the end of the tunnel?

• 08 Selig heart Fehr, 2006

• 08 Inside details of NHL negotiations

• 07 Ron Hainsey speaks

• 07 Is Gary Bettman predictable?

• 07 How would the NHL season have changed last year if 60 games?

• 07 New kickoff rules?

• 07 Using Fans Scouting Report to estimate fielding performance

• 07 How would baseball change if you limit the number of outs per play to 1?

• 07 NHL script

• 07 Do shorter deals affects the middle class?

• 07 Breaking down the Hall of Fame

• 07 NHLPA letter recapping the issues

• 07 Both sides confirm that NHL owners said involving Fehr is a deal-breaker

• 07 NHL drama

• 07 Amazon, The Book, and supply/demand

• 06 Star Trek 2013 Prologue

• 06 Maximum year-to-year variance on long-term contracts

• 06 Gene Orza: maybe the HOF leaders should show some leadership?

• 05 STICKY: The Book - 50% OFF! (Limited time offer)

• 05 Exhiliration Gap

• 05 Barry Bonds or Jack Morris?

• 05 The Book - Status

• 05 Who is Ron Burkle?  And why do we need paid negotiators?

• 04 NHL players-owners meet

• 04 If you are not going to steal off Johnny Cueto, why are you letting yourself get thrown out?

• 03 Reader Mail of the Minute: why care about the HOF?

• 03 Vote-splitting

• 03 Kenny Lofton: you deserve better

• 03 Significant digits

• 02 Poll: Most Outstanding Career - Results

• 02 Poll: Most Outstanding Career

• 02 Holy Writers go with the Lionel Hutz line of defense

• 01 Tax Circumvention

• 01 If you don’t let in enough players into the HOF, you are opening the back door to let in too many

• 01 Is there a difference between a leadoff walk and leadoff single, in terms of runs scoring?

• 01 King Henry