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[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Ok, here are some of their team predictions, and the current records:
 
 Underestimation of the team:
 
 Team      BP Prediction      Record
 
 Cincinati       62-100          26-18
 San Diego       65-97           24-20
 Anaheim         80-82           29-16
 Detroit         47-115          21-22
 
 Overestimation of the team:
 
 Arizona         84-78           17-27
 Atlanta         96-66           21-22
 Montreal        80-82           14-30
 San Fran        93-69           19-24
 Seattle         98-64           15-28
 
 

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  I haven't read Baseball Prospectus before this year, but they seem to be dead wrong on a number of predictions about how teams will do, as well as individual player performances. Have you found this to be true? Is this year an anomoly so far?

I don't read their team projections with a careful eye, usually.  I do pay attention to the smaller projections for offensive categories(should score more runs, should steal more bases, etc.).  It's so hard to make predictions in January in print, and not be able to change them when people get injured and players get traded.  If they are particularly bad right now, I wonder if those results will hold true at the end of the season?  Maybe I'll check past issues.  I know they completely missed the 2002 Angels, but who didn't?
 
 What I really like about BP is their methodology for having more than the usual categories for stats.  The stats are basically useless to everybody but sabermatricians and die-hard Fantasy/Roto players, but their methodology has always been of keen interest to me.  I can't explain it really, but I've always been interested in the intricacies of baseball: lefties vs. righties, how it is impossible to measure the value of players relative to one another because of the differences in opposition and ballparks, years played, etc.
 
 As far as use, I mainly use BP for Fantasy Baseball and their translated stats about day/night, LHP/RHP, ballpark analysis and monthly performance for day to day rosters.  But I read BP for its methodology. [/b]

[Venerable Bede]

for you red sox fans, today in 1984, the red sox aquired bill buckner from the cubs for dennis eckersley and a minor leaguer.

Originally posted by Barcelona:
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 The story of Radio Venceremos during El Salvador's civil war.

And now many of those selfsame death squad members lead happy productive lives working behind the counters at our local Long John Silvers's & KFC's.
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 I just started it. Fascinating cold war spook stuff.

[ggw]

I finished Pi a while ago.  I thought it was great -- best book I've read in recent memory.
 
 In keeping with the Booker Prize theme, I just finished Possession by AS Byatt.  Good - but not great.  
 
 Now I'm deciding which of these two to start next.  Anybody have an opinion?
 
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Originally posted by brennser:
  what do you think? I really liked it
 
   

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
 
 Now I'm reading:
 
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[malkmess]

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[brennser]

these have been good reads - ggw - tough choice between roddy doyle and coetzee - being irish I'm obviously partial to Doyle although I recall some people being irritated by his 'life through the eyes of a child' writing style, but coetzee is great - disgrace was a good book
 
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[sonickteam2]

i just read this
 
 its mildly amusing
 
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 by Paulette Jiles

Just finishing this novel:
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 Getting ready to read this Linebacker-raid tome:
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[grotty]

I started this last night:
 
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 Somebody wrote this on amaz.com
 
 "There's often been discussions about the "beauty of the dark", and here in Tom Pic's novel A Choir of Ill Children you'll find gorgeous wonders abounding. The lush southern atmosphere will have you dripping sweat as you make your way through the haunted swamps and backwoods of this book. There are hex women, a down on his luck private eye, ghosts, killers, and plenty of haunted and doomed characters. Despite how horrific this might sound, the story is actually quite darkly humorous, which adds a whole new level of eerieness to the plot. Highly recommended."
 
 Sounds just like my taste in music.

[twangirl]

Sartoris
 by William Faulkner

[brennser]

I guess I missed this in May ggw - yeah, only ok -I thought the premise for the book was great but the characters seemed a little thinly drawn and I found the whole pedophile subplot a bit over the top
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Only "OK"?
 
 I really enjoyed Bad Haircut and The Wishbones.  But then again, I'm a Northern Jersey boy like Perrotta.
 
   

Originally posted by brennser:
 I just finished this little piece of fluff - twas ok - newer editions have two cookies on the cover because the goldfish people threatened to sue
 
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[Bags]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
 In keeping with the Booker Prize theme, I just finished Possession by AS Byatt.  Good - but not great.  
 

I *love* Possession...
 
 I'm about to start this, though I hear it's incredibly dense and technical:
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 Just finished this, which was 'lighter' than I thought it would be...truly a 'summer' read:
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[vansmack]

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[walkman]

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 for what it's worth, the best native american novel I've read.

[Bombay Chutney]

Saint Morrissey
 
   <img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0946719659.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
 Not a biography as much as a humorous analysis of why Morrissey is the way he is.