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Roy Oswalt Wants A-Rod's Stats Gone

It's always interesting to see how peers react when one of their own get clipped for steroids. Barry Bonds seemed to get more vilification from fans than from players (except for maybe Turk Wendell). You would think that among his own, Alex Rodriguez would get the same kind of support. But not from Roy Oswalt. And forget...

Bill James Rips the BCS, Calls on Fellow Statistical Analysts to Boycott

In the years when the BCS works more or less as well as can be expected, and the top two teams play each other for the national championship, the powers that be in college football like to pat themselves on the back for using computer rankings as part of the BCS formula. "See?" they say, "We're using the computers to make...

Notes From the Clubhouse: Angels Look for Answers Within

Our MLB editor provides weekly dispatches from major league games in Notes From the Clubhouse.From afar, everything appears to be business as usual in Orange County. As of Thursday evening, only two teams in the majors have more wins than the Angels -- the Red Sox and Cubs, and only Chicago has a better winning percentage...

MLB Essentials: JoePo on Junior

MLB Essentials ranks our six favorite stories of the day.1. Joe Posnanski: There have been a lot of articles written about Ken Griffey today; Joe's is the best. 2. Big League Stew: Catching up with the Mitchell Report All-Stars.3. New York Times: Grading the best ballpark cuisine from coast to coast. (Bonus: Endless Simmer...

Bill James Should Offer Opinions About Win Shares, Not Causes of Death

The worst part of the Steroid Era in baseball is that we'll never be quite sure who was or wasn't on drugs during the years when testing was nonexistent. We all have our suspicions about players whose production and/or muscles exploded but they usually remain just that. Bill James, however, went a step further in his new...

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05/23/12 Thieves Steal $300 From Church, Leave Thousands in... Source: FOX/ABC - NewsCenter Fox 28 & ABC 6 - Columbus OH CHILLICOTHE--Chillicothe Baptist church members are cleaning up after someone broke into their building and stole $300, but left thousands more in damage.
05/23/12 County board okays hospital bond issuance Source: The Mount Airy News - Mount Airy NC The Surry County Board of Commissioners gave a go-ahead nod Monday night to a plan by Northern Hospital executives to refinance three bonds, a move healthcare administrators say will save millions in interest payments over the life of the bonds.
05/20/12 Port of Port Angeles reports good budget news in its... Source: Peninsula Daily News - Port Angeles WA The Port of Port Angeles' first-quarter budget figures are better than expected, since tanker repairs and log exports continue to run ahead of early budget estimates.
05/18/12 North Carolina same-sex marriage amendment: Confusion... Source: The Washington Post - Washington DC Mecklenburg County commissioner Bill James survived his own primary race on May 8.
05/17/12 Red Sox Hoping Carlos Pena, B.J. Upton Stay Cold in... Source: NESN The temperature gauge is a Bill James-created statistic that measures how hot or cold hitters are.