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...reality behind the slogans. Unless the IMF gives up its strategy of trying to help the poor by first investing in the rich, a few tweaks of its policies here and there will not change much. As you say, the poor are "structurally adjusted half to death." DALE LINDSEY Cleveland, Ohio...
...shocked me," DePodesta remembers. "Especially considering my age [25 at the time], the fact that I didn't know Billy, and that I had just been promoted in Cleveland...
Eventually, Forst sent a letter and resume to DePodesta in Cleveland, but the letter never found him. DePodesta was already on the West Coast. Once Forst did get a hold of him, the fellow Crimson alum was ready to listen...
Forst began work as Baseball Operations Assistant in January. In this capacity, he performs many of the researching duties that DePodesta had in Cleveland. He also manages a large portion of Oakland's independent statistics base, primarily using a computerized method known as BATS...
...have a huge payroll," DePodesta says. "So we have to be more intellectual and creative about our decisions than other teams. When I was in Cleveland, most of the decisions people made were just about money -how much do we pay this guy, things like that. Here, we talk more baseball than anything else...