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by Matt Clement of Alexandria
The Red Sox have been unexpectedly watchable of late, and it’s greatly thanks to three people. One of them is Adrian Gonzalez, a .gif of whom is linked in the comments. The other two are the kids on hot streaks, Will Middlebrooks and Daniel Nava.
You might say that it’s not a good idea to ...
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Posted: May 15, 2012 at 08:40 AM
by Jim Furtado
This is a new thread dedicated to the “staying logged in” issue that has reappeared after I updated our backend to Expression Engine 2.4. The issue has been discussed in a few places but it would be more useful for me to consolidate the conversation to one place. Additionally, it provides a more ...
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Posted: May 07, 2012 at 09:49 AM
by Jim Furtado
I am plodding along with the update. One of my main goals is simplifying our overall setup to make it easier for people to find what they are interested in *and* to make it easier for members to submit content. With that in mind I am streamlining the structure of topic specific areas. This includes ...
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Posted: April 29, 2012 at 08:39 AM
by Jim Furtado
Yesterday morning I updated our underlying CMS (Content Management System) Expression Engine. I needed to apply the maintenance release to better take advantage of the new caching system I’m using with the updated site. It wasn’t a major release and during my testing on my development system I ...
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Posted: April 27, 2012 at 06:47 AM
by Daniel Greenia
Orlando Hernandez (“El Duque”), out of MLB for five years now, is up for election to the Hall of Fame in the next BBWAA election in 2013. Or rather, he should be. But the HOF does not consider his playing time sufficiently long to be eligible, despite a career spanning from 1987 to 2010. ...
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Posted: April 16, 2012 at 04:45 PM
by DL from MN
Here are the specific rules for this election:
Candidate Eligibility: Any North American professional baseball player is eligible for the Most Meritorious Player (MMP) award including players in the top Negro Leagues or independent teams. Voters should consider the player’s on-field contribution ...
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Posted: April 09, 2012 at 10:32 AM
by Dan Szymborski
This is the final ZiPS release looking ahead at the 2012 season. These were finalized before the A's-Mariners games, so there's not "cheating" by including the 2 days of statistics into the model. The .zip file contains a full spreadsheet for Excel 2010 and CSV files for the batters and ...
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Posted: April 05, 2012 at 01:21 PM
by Dan Szymborski
Remember RBI Baseball for Nintendo? For those that are interested, I’ve made a modified version of the original RBI Baseball ROM with 2012 ZiPS.
For use of the ROM, seek ye an NES emulator, which can be found in a number of open-source flavors. I use FCEUX.
Any other old NES ROMs, I can’t legally ...
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Posted: April 04, 2012 at 02:11 PM
by fra paolo
Another close result, and congratulations to Carl Yastrzemski, 1970’s Most Meritorious Player!
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Posted: March 26, 2012 at 08:50 PM
by Matt Clement of Alexandria
The Soxblog firestorm of the weekend arose from a couple reports that Bobby V and Ben Cherington disagree about roster composition. I have some thoughts on the final spots on the Sox roster, which I’ll get to. I’m also interested in the underlying question of the authority of the manager, GM, ...
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Posted: March 26, 2012 at 07:18 PM
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