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| Articles about Moneyball |
| Padres: Moneyball or Cheapball? | | 2008-04-03 16:55:00 | | Too bad the local television stations have fallen for what “great ticket deals” the Padres have going in 2008.If they did their research, they would discover that is not the case at all.According to Team Marketing Report, the Padres have the 12th highest average ticket price among 30 Major League Baseball teams this season.San Diego is also 11th in Fan Cost Index (the price of four average tickets, two small beers, four small sodas, four hot dogs, parking for one car, two game programs and two adult-sized caps.)Last season, the Padres ranked 15th and 14th in these respective categories, so they jumped up three spots in both ticket prices and Fan Cost Index.Looking around the NL West, the Padres are second among five teams in both categories. Not surprisingly, the Los Angeles Dodgers are first (sixth and ninth, respectively.)San Francisco is 18th and 17th, Colorado is 22nd and 23rd, and Arizona is 30th (last) and 22nd.Also, one must consider that the Padres are only 19th out of 30 i | | By: San Diego Sporting | | |
| | Moneyball: Well We Have Balls, Just No Money | | 2007-09-29 21:01:55 | | A source close to the Marlins is reporting that Larry Beinfest, general manager of the Florida Marlins, has been given a contract extension that will keep him with the team through the 2015 season. The source is also reporting that Jeffrey Loria has given extensions to assistant general managers Michael Hill and Jim Fleming [...] | | By: SporTech Matter | | |
| | Moneyball: British vs. American sport | | 2007-04-27 01:41:00 | | For a number of years I've been more interested by American sports (particularly the NFL and MLB) than I have been by football here in the UK. (I'm still fond of rugby and cricket for more sentimental reasons.) Never before have I seen the differences articulated so intelligently as in this article by David Runciman in the Observer Sport Monthly. It's so rare for a writer to understand both sporting cultures so sensibly, without applying the usual ignorant stereotypes. I can now see why football has never had much appeal to US armchair fans; although it has a huge level of participation at the grassroots. There's a wonderful contrariness about American elite sport, which Runciman calls "a workers' paradise compared to the red-in-tooth-and-claw competition of the English game." He continues, "What American sport - with its powerful unions, its salary caps, its drafts designed to favour the weakest teams, its collectivised bargaining - most closely resembles is European Union-style | | By: domeheid | | |
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| Moneyball | | 2006-11-18 11:41:00 | | I finished Moneyball a while ago and haven't had enough time to write this review.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - 320 pages - 3.5 out of 5 stars - Writer Michael Lewis - who wrote Liar's Poker and more recently The Blind Side, which I am reading now - saw the big difference between how many wins the rich teams in Baseball get as compared to the poor teams. Every year only very | | By: Value INvesting, and a Few Cigar Butts | | |
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