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It’s not Sandy Alderson’s fault, says Sandy Alderson

It’s really hanging one out there to call this Mets season particularly Mets-y. Every season in Queens has an element of the weird and inexplicable to it that only the Mets can conjure. They never settle quietly into the background. But this year, well, through Jacob deGrom’s injury and Javy Baez letting it slip that… […]

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Damian Lillard was back on his… whatever voodoo that was… last night

If there’s one thing Twitter is good for, and it might not be, it’s alerting you when you might miss something. The Blazers were down 17 last night to the Pelicans with just six minutes to go. They won by one, thanks to a 25-7 run, in which Damian Lillard was involved in 18 of […]

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Billy Beane Altered baseballbut he Would never conquer the Match

While the film”Moneyball” is now canon for those analytics motion in baseball — or more precisely those seeking to follow its spread into essentially every other game — people who’ve read this book know that Billy Beane did not invent them together using some intern that he ransomed from Cleveland (and each Cleveland resident… Read…