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Saturday, Aug 07, 2004

money honies

"Before Moneyball, the mainstream more or less ignored sabermetrics. Those who brought up statistics were dismissed as roto-geeks; the game couldn't be boiled down to numbers, and if these losers would get their heads out of their spreadsheets and actually watch a game, they'd know that.

But now, as Moneyball showed everyone, they're on the inside, taking over some of the game's most prominent franchises, and what's more, they've been successful. Sabermetrics no longer belongs to fringe outsiders, it's part of the game. Sabermetric teams are still a minority, but it is firmly entrenched, and likely to spread."

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Sunday, Aug 01, 2004

pass it on

"TiVo, the company that makes the digital-video-recorder boxes that inspire such strange idolatry among their users, is in a weird spot. It's asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to add a new feature -- the option for a TiVo user to send recorded digital TV programs via the Internet to nine other people."

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tvelopment

"That's because "Arrested Development" is trying to reinvent the rules of the half-hour comedy. The show trades the laugh track, multiple cameras and over-lighted stage sets that have characterized sitcoms from "I Love Lucy" to "King of Queens" for the hand-held single camera, natural light, heavily scored soundtrack and voice-over narration of a pseudo-documentary like "The Real World." It's very much a post-reality-show sitcom, capitalizing on the influence of the fledgling genre and translating its conventions into a new kind of comedy — broadly drawn but presented utterly deadpan."

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Saturday, Jul 31, 2004

wrysible

"Write it yourself!"

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Friday, Jul 30, 2004

club key

"The New York Yankees baseball club will announce soon that it plans to build a new ballpark across the street from the current Yankee stadium, which would be torn down, according to Crain's New York Web site.

Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion, Jr., tells NewsChannel 4 the deal is not yet 100 percent complete on City Hall's end of things, but that he expects an announcement in mid-August.

A spokesman for Mayor Mike Bloomberg reassured taxpayers Thursday that they won't be paying for the new stadium, saying it will have to be built completely with private money. And if there is accompanying city investment in infrastructure, it would have to pay for itself so "it wouldn’t cost taxpayers a dime.""

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Tuesday, Jul 27, 2004

personalized station aerie

last fm

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unveiled

the biggest scoop in beantown.

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Saturday, Jul 24, 2004

convention oven

dnc convention blogger aggregator via mr scripting news.

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Friday, Jul 23, 2004

still breathing

technorati tabbed to report on blogosphere during the democratic convention by cnn. (pretty sure wonkette is working for mtv news there, too.)

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Thursday, Jul 15, 2004

speaker system

seymour hersh and john sayles speak at aclu dinner.

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