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	<title>The litter in littérateur. &#187; Baseball</title>
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		<title>President Obama on baseball</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why this video doesn&#8217;t have more views, I have no idea. How fun it is to hear President Obama talk about the sport.



    

	

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		<title>Why should underdogs take big risks?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the answer, see Jack Hirshleifer&#8217;s article, &#8220;The Paradox of Power.&#8221; 

    

	

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		<title>Reactions to the iPad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Gopnik and other New Yorker staffers responded to Apple&#8217;s iPad announcement.

    

	

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		<title>My favorite things of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a list of things from 2009 that I particularly liked. The list has no order to it. And so:
Leica M9 — A full-frame camera that not only is not an intimidating SLR but also comes from the greatest line of cameras—the Leica M series—but is also a gorgeous rangefinder, but also gives you access [...]


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		<title>Run This Town (New York Yankees Version)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the Yankees game on Friday night, the stadium&#8217;s PA played a special Yankees version of the Jay-Z song &#8220;Run This Town.&#8221; Is it just bad or is it so bad it&#8217;s good? 



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		<title>My favorite iPhone and iPod Touch apps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing around with these devices for most of the year and have come to some conclusions about my favorite applications. Because Apple&#8217;s App Store is a bit of a mess, I&#8217;ve picked up most of my recommendations from other blogs and forums. So, here&#8217;s the list of apps that I wish I hadn&#8217;t [...]


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		<title>Analyzing baseball statistics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently started using the free statistics software package, R, and stumbled upon an excellent primer for using it to analyze baseball stats. So, if you&#8217;re looking to calculate win-shares or anything else, head over to O&#8217;Reilly and check out their introduction to the software.

    

	

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		<title>Moneyball comes to the NBA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like every time Michael Lewis talks about Moneyball, someone asks him if Billy Beane&#8217;s approach to fielding a team based on statistical analysis has taken hold in other sports. Although people have calculated win shares in basketball based on other statistics, i.e. through regressions, no one has really told a Moneyball-like story of [...]


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		<title>Briefly, Roger Angell on voting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps, lost among all the post-election analysis is Roger Angell&#8217;s beautiful post, Rite, over at NewYorker.com about his experience at the ballot box, which concludes:
A cloud of smugness enfolds me as I hit the street, exactly the kind of feeling that’s pretty well kept me out of churches. But why resist? I believe in this. It’s been [...]


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		<title>Hemingway&#8217;s baseball field</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times has a story about Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s baseball field in Cuba, which I somehow didn&#8217;t even know about before. 
Hemingway rounded up a dozen boys from the barrio to play baseball with them. And just inside the black and white gates of the farm, Hemingway set up an odd little ball field where he would [...]


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