I've been a little distracted by the baseball ... Did that story about the little boy in the balloon have a happy ending?
- Isn't it sort of amazing when an umpire has a moderately tough call, and it becomes a big story?
- Coolest. iPhone. App. Ever.
- This new story reminds me of this old story.
- It's stuff like this that really gets my juices going. Some years ago, when I was writing three columns per week rather than five blog posts per day, I spent hours trying to figure out this cover photo.
- Speaking of Mr. James, recently The New Yorker got him and Nate Silver in a room together. My question: Why wasn't this on C-SPAN4?
- I'm late with this, but at least one system suggested the Dodgers-Cardinals series was as lopsided as it actually turned out.
- There are "people" who say Mike Scioscia should drop Vladimir Guerrero in the batting order because, you know, he hasn't been much good lately. Steve Bisheff lists the reasons why Scioscia won't do it, but misses perhaps the best of them: it doesn't really make any difference where exactly a middle-of-the-order is placed, and particularly over the course of just a few games.
- According to Buzz Bissinger, "Moneyball" is dead. I think he's exactly right. The best teams no longer have any need for computers or objective analysis in their quest to get the best value for their precious dollars. Consider me persuaded.
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Rob Neyer
Neyer is a senior writer at ESPN.com. He began his career with legendary baseball author (and now Red Sox executive) Bill James, then joined Stats Inc. and wrote about MLB, the NFL and the NBA. Neyer joined ESPN.com in 1996, and it's believed that he's written more words for the site than anybody.
Neyer moved to Kansas City in 1976, just in time for the Royals' first division title, and fell in love almost immediately. He attended the University of Kansas the same four years as Danny Manning, and is now happy to wait another 20 years for the Jayhawks' next championship.