Hey, Stewies! After a hiatus for a few days, I'm back stalking around spring training sites in sunny Florida. I ran out of postcard stamps, but K-Duck said to post anyway between Answer Man recon. Legends Steinbrenner Field in Tampa is a great place to spot the stars, of course. You could (fist) bum...

p2pnet news view Radio | P2P:-  Earlier today, we ran Jango: the vanity press of online music from p2pnet contributor Fred Wilhelms, a well-known (on- and offline) entertainment lawyer. He was writing on the appearance of Jango, yet another online radio payola operation whose name has absolutely no...

Big League Stew contributor David Brown is in Florida this week for a spring swing through the Grapefruit League. He'll be posting throughout the day — both to the Stew and his Twitter feed — plus he'll also be filing a report each night from his day's action, complete with photos, video...

Numbers on Steroids is a look at baseball players during the 90s to see if anything screams out at you. This week it's throwing a curve ball and looking at All Time Great Yankees. Players that we know did not take steroids to see if this gives a defense to any of the players 'convicted' by Numbers o...

Paul Graham just posted his thoughts on the 2-year anniversary of HackerNews. It’s interesting for a number of reasons. One thing that stands out is the implicit understanding that many mainstream communities of a similar nature have suffered what Paul refers to as “dilution”. The ...

Other than stolen bases, which I addressed a few weeks ago, very little has been published on catcher’s fielding numbers. Tom Tango first conceived his WOWY technique in studying catchers. Now I’ve extended my stolen base study back to the beginning of the current RetroSheet in 1953, and...

To view the original art, please travel to "Moneybag Democracy" [Archive No. 9703] copyright © 2008.  Andrew Wahl.  Off The Wahl Perspective. copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org "Now, that doesn't mean that questions of Taiwan, Tibet, human rights, the whole range of chal...

It’s that time of year again, when we happy BPers don pilgrim rags and come visit your hometown. Break out the absinthe, the doilies, and hide the good silver because we’re comin’ over for dinner… but not a performance-enhancing dinner. All-natural ingredients and organics only, please. We a...

mental_floss477:http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/22780.html Baseball has often been described as the thinking man’s game. Yogi Berra once said that America’s national pastime was 90 percent mental, and the other half physical. If any player could make sense of such a statement,...

(This is Part 5 (Part 4, Part 3, Part 2, Part 1) in an ongoing series of interviews with publishers on what the recession means for their business. I'm interested in getting past the newspaper reports of trouble at the giant New York publishers and seeing what smaller and/or independent publishers h...