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Bill James, the legendary baseball stat guru and godfather of the data-driven "Moneyball" movement that has changed how front offices evaluate players, has written a new book, The Bill James Gold Mine 2008. TIME's Sean Gregory caught up with James, now a senior advisor to the world champion Boston Red Sox, from the team's spring training facility in Fort Myers, Fla., to talk about the state of analytics in baseball, the Roger Clemens steroids controversy, and whether a certain New York Yankees star looks like Henry Fonda...
Moneyball author Michael Lewis' examination of statistical driven team management started a craze throughout baseball, as teams hired more "numbers guys" to make player personnel decisions. What's the state of Moneyball in the game right now? Who's winning the battle between the statisticians and the scouts, who evaluate players more on physical ability than esoteric math, in baseball front offices...
...many centuries suggests that the stories of Valentinus' deeds in the service of love have caught the public's imagination. Before condemning things of legend, consider how we have incorporated tales of another saint into our lives. Although society has made Santa Claus the hero of a consumer-driven, materialistic culture, at the core of that character is the love St. Nicholas had for his God and neighbor. Why not celebrate the legend of Valentinus on Valentine's Day? Sharon Reidy, Bedford, Mass...
...development of sexual orientation is very individual,” he says. “If it’s not happening now, it’s fine.”But this time lapse between college and coming out, juxtaposed with the strangely competitive and driven Harvard environment, will continue to confuse queer leaders. “The closeted community is the hardest to reach because we don’t know who they are,” says Kellaway. “But we’ll be the ones sitting in the dining hall with big rainbow...
...militant bases in the area. Adam said all outsiders - both the militants, and the Ethiopian and U.S. warplanes that hunt them - were a curse. "The Americans bomb. The Ethiopians bomb. And the ICU threaten us on the ground," he said, using the acronym for the Somali Islamic Courts Union, driven out of Mogadishu by a U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion. "None of these people are from here...