Sorry, almost done with this catching up business, so bear with me.
For those of you who haven’t seen it, here’s my take on the November session of Yankees Fantasy Camp in the Dec, 17 issue of the New Jersey Jewish News. In addition, My teammate Ira Jaskoll wrote this piece for the Jewish Magazine after his first experience with Yankee Fantasy Camp in January of this year.- The Dec, 28 issue of Sports Illustrated takes some final glances back at the last decade, including “Ichiro‘s Greatest Hits;” a David Halberstam/”Summer of ’49” reference to Derek Jeter; a decade’s worth of “They Said Its,” with some baseball said-its in there; L. Jon Wertheim’s “An Imperfect Ten,” an overview of the last 10 years as well as other articles that really make this issue worth the expenditure. Going back a bit, here’s Joe Posananski’s review of MLB for the decade.
- For those of you who would like to get into all the numbers you find in books like The Bill James’ lineup or The Hardball Times or Baseball Prospectus, “Big League Stew,” a Yahoo sports blog, has some good primer work on some of the formerly obscure statistics, including “batting average on balls in play” (BABIP), “Adjusted On-base percentage Plus Slugging” (OPS+), “Fielding Independent Pitching” (FIP), “Weighted On Base Average” (wOBP), and “Win Probability Added” (WPA), with more on the way.
- Enroll with Baseballisms.com for the 2009 Playoff Collection: True Fan’s Commentary in 140 Characters, a free and unique e-book of tweets from the post-season. Surprisingly well done.
- In a previously entry, I wrote about Peter Gammons leaving ESPN. Here’s a transcript/audio of an interview he gave to WEEI, a New England-based radio station.
- Guess he didn’t make enough money playing in the Majors from 200-1-03, so here’s Tsuyoshi Shinjo on the Japanese version of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? via TedQuarters.net. Notice the agonizingly long tme until the emcee tells him the results of the final question.
- Looks like the movie version of Moneyball is not dead yet.
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