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Baseball season is coming to a close and the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BWAA) will soon unveil their vote for AL and NL MVP. The much-anticipated vote is consistently under the public microscope, and in recent years has drawn criticism for neglecting a clear winner cough Mike Trout cough. One... [Read More]

I’m going to admit it up front. I don’t hate romantic comedies. Love Actually could be one of the best movies ever made. Whether it’s the storyline, the writing, the directing, the music, or the acting, sometimes a good romantic comedy is just the thing we need on cold winter night... [Read More]

The contextual revolution (don’t really know if that’s a thing, but it sounds official) emerged in the MLB the past few years, attempting to control for more situational effects than current sabermetric driven baseball stats. These models build upon Bill James’s work, Tom Tango’s all-important linear weights, and similar metrics that account... [Read More]

Mid-inning entertainment takes many forms in the MLB from The Freeze in Atlanta to the simple crab shuffle in Baltimore. These bouts of entertainment grab the attention of all fans regardless of age no matter how trivial or silly they may be. I always think to myself, who cares which... [Read More]