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The contrarian addiction

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

Build it anyway, and some of them may come

…officers while preserving a $17 million payment to the National Football League’s Oakland Raiders and Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics: Oakland, California, the fifth-most crime ridden city in America, faced…

Question for the week

by Cactus I can’t stand baseball. Nevertheless, it is clear to me that if someone were to claim that, say, left-handed batters who refuse to swing at the first two…

The game of statistics

The tune for the other game of statistics The Boston Globe printed this poem. By Mary Oliver October 13, 2007 In the language of baseball I am 3 and 2,…

Money and Inside Baseball Post This USA Today article contains some information that blows holes in my matching funds projections. I had projected Clark will be eligible to receive 8.7…