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Buying and Selling Losers in Professional Sports
Matthew Yglesias – in The Trouble With “Redskins” – reveals how he came to follow Washington’s NFL team. When I realized I was most likely going to stay in Washington, DC and write about politics for… more →
The Wages of Wins Journal
Buying and Selling Losers in Professional Sports
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dberri wrote 2 months ago: Matthew Yglesias – in The Trouble With “Redskins” – reveals how he came to follow Washington’s NFL t … more →
All The Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg
jdapier wrote 4 months ago: Seventh grader Matt Pin is a child of war. Airlifted out of Vietnam by American soldiers and adopted … more →
Why Smart GMs Do Stupid Things
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dberri wrote 4 months ago: Today’s column is another brilliant offering from Steve Walters, a Professor of Economics at Loyola … more →
Need your best idea, writer? Stop writing.
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Ken Grindall wrote 7 months ago: ALERT: My Headline Writing Challenge ends Sunday! Finally! After bringing my mom to many games, she … more →
How much do you pay for ads that fail?
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Ken Grindall wrote 7 months ago: Reading time: about four minutes Is your copy “swing” as on-target as an MLB batter? Y … more →
New Book To Read - 'Armchair Reader - Grand Slam Baseball'
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30-Year Old Cardboard wrote 7 months ago: I got this book for my birthday a few months ago and just cracked it open this week. I always have … more →
Boston Redsox To Sign Frankenstein?
Stewart Gray wrote 10 months ago: Among the news that just about every player in in the MLB is on steroids, several sources are saying … more →
* Review: Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends
ronkaplan wrote 11 months ago: From the Baseball in Great Britain blog, this review of the latest Neyer edition. Upshot: Neyer may … more →
Honey Mustard
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bikegirl wrote 1 year ago: So it isn’t really a live sporting event without at least one drunk guy story. I have 2 to sh … more →
Roger Clemens, Steroids, and Bringing People Together
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dberri wrote 1 year ago: Did Roger Clemens take steroids? The following paragraph appeared in the New York Times this Sunday: … more →
Stop the Presses -- Two Economists Agree
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dberri wrote 1 year ago: If you put all the economists in the world end to end, you still couldn’t reach a conclusion. … more →
How to Eliminate Steroids in Baseball
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dberri wrote 2 years ago: Yesterday JC Bradbury wrote a column explaining how the steroid issue in baseball is probably not go … more →
JC Bradbury on the Financial Impact of the Mitchell Report
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dberri wrote 2 years ago: The Mitchell Report (which you can read HERE) on steroids in baseball is THE story in sports today. … more →
The Federal Reserve and the Value of Scouting
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dberri wrote 2 years ago: Today’s column is truly about sports. Specifically the role of “staring” in the e … more →
Kobe Myths
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dberri wrote 2 years ago: Kobe Bryant came to Bakersfield tonight. A few years ago I was given a court-side ticket for the an … more →
Yankee Liberation Day
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dberri wrote 2 years ago: Monday was Yankee Liberation Day. With the Cleveland Indians elimination of the New York Yankees, t … more →
More on Bonds – Lifting Comments from Sabernomics.com
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dberri wrote 2 years ago: As noted yesterday, JC Bradbury at Sabernomics.com had done a wonderful job correcting some of the s … more →
A Tribute to Barry Bonds and Other News
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dberri wrote 2 years ago: Last night, as my daughters were going to bed, I turned the TV to the Giants-Nationals game. When th … more →
Optimistic to a Fault
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dberri wrote 2 years ago: Frequent WoW Journal contributor, Steve Walters, wrote a fascinating column on optimism bias for the … more →
