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posted 7 hours ago by Repoz to sabermetrics | 103 comment(s)

I’m going to start using emanded. That is all.

I was surrounded in the clubhouse the other day, with no escape. Two players wanted—emanded—to know why there was even an MVP debate last year in the American League.

So technically, the great debate from 2012 rages on. Six months after the winner was announces, we are still talking about it.

These two players, like a seeming overwhelming majority of players, couldn’t understand why anyone supported Mike Trout in the apparently ongoing ...

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1. Meatwad denied pope, reveals he faked it at mass posted on January 30, 2013 at 07:11 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Agreed, that routine double play should have happened but alas it didnt

2. Transmission posted on January 30, 2013 at 08:14 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

More than nine years later, it still pains me to read about that.

3. villageidiom posted on January 30, 2013 at 09:42 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

More than nine years later, it still pains me to read about that.

God, The Cubs, and Marty McFly

4. The District Attorney posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:03 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

He's still got a secret identity? Sheesh.

5. madvillain posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:32 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Tango was one of the first guys that I read when I was getting into sabermetrics. His explanation of linear weights for batting outcomes was a revelation for me and it opened up an entire new way of thinking about the game. I just wish I had the brain I have now about baseball when I was playing in HS and low-level college. I would have been a lot freaking better.

Congrats to Tango, whatever his real name is.

6. SoSH U at work posted on January 30, 2013 at 10:37 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I just wish I had the brain I have now about baseball when I was playing in HS and low-level college.

I was a James disciple when I played in high school and college. I can't say it did much for my performance (though my teammates found it perplexing, and a bit amusing, when I'd rail against the strategies employed by my coaches).

7. Foghorn Leghorn posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:16 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

You know, when I introduced Leverage Index to a larger audience, I did it the day after Game 6.

I thought he did it in December after teh Bartman game. And he did it here.

8. boteman posted on January 30, 2013 at 11:34 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I read about this somewhere. If only I could remember where...

9. Famous Original Joe C posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:21 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Congrats to Tango, whatever his real name is.

Tom Tango (unless he writes under a psuedonym).

10. Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:31 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

His real name is Tiger Wang. He used "Tango Tiger" as a pseudonym and now he's switched again. His parents in Hong Kong are outraged.

11. zack posted on January 31, 2013 at 11:59 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

Tom Tango is a pseudonym, yes. Either the publishers or he (can't recall) wanted a more name-y name for the cover of The Book.

On the cover it's actually Tom M. Tango.

12. Slivers of Maranville (SdeB) posted on January 31, 2013 at 12:03 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Tango is actually Tiger Woods. His double life as a sabermetrician led to conflict with Elin. His famous car accident in his driveway occurred after a particularly heated argument in which, according to a witness, Elin and Tiger got into a profanity-laced back and forth regarding the relative worth of Dewan +/-, UZR and range factor.

13. Famous Original Joe C posted on January 31, 2013 at 12:07 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

On the cover it's actually Tom M. Tango.

Yeah, that was my "source".

14. Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines posted on January 31, 2013 at 12:10 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Tom Must Tango

15. just plain joe posted on January 31, 2013 at 12:11 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

More than nine years later, it still pains me to read about that.

Nearly 30 years (jeesh, the time), and it still pains me to think about Leon F. Durham missing that grounder in the 1984 NLCS. I am no longer really a Cubs fan but I was then and I thought sure that was the year they were going to the Series.

16. Steve N posted on January 31, 2013 at 02:48 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Its been 49 years and I still hate Chico Ruiz.

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