Estimates of MLB's "Stadium Effect"
A quick follow-up to Take Me Out to the (New) Ballpark. I appreciate the comments and I find the shared experiences and emotions from teams/stadiums a fascinating topic on both ...Take Me Out to the (Newer) Ballpark
My wife and I recently visited the West Coast, affording me my first game at Dodger Stadium in 45 years. While Brooklynites still despair the Dodgers exit from the East ...Minimum Age for the NBA
Steve Kerr, former player and current TV analyst, proposes raising the NBA minimum age from 19 to 20 in a recent Grantland column. His argument is simple, the move makes ...Management by Discrete Jumps, Not Increments?
Tom Verducci of SI.com hammers the management of pitching in MLB, particularly the role of "closers," in "With More Closers Breaking Down, It's Time to Rethink the Modern Bullpen." In ...Taxing Slow Play
Time is valuable even for sports fans. The Masters is one of my favorite sports events (even if run by an all-male club) but watching a player stand, talk to ...A $2 Billion Bargain for New Dodger Owners?
The $2 billion winning bid the group headed by Guggenheim Financial CEO Mark Walter and Magic Johnson as PR owner raised many eyebrows. It blows away the $1.5 billion paid ...Implicit Bounties?
Dennis Coates' post considered the serious nature of the Saints' bounty system and foreshadowed the stunning response by the league that is now the buzz of sports websites and blogs ...Coaches & Risk-Taking
Manning over Tebow. Ok, that's an easy choice in the short term. Surprisingly from Tebow's wins-losses, but not surprisingly from coaching practices, little interest in a trade for Tebow existed ...Tebow & Elway -- Cousins?
After Peyton Manning's visit with the Broncos, several articles have appeared regarding its meaning for Tim Tebow. The Wall Street Journal's Jason Gay writes This is a young quarterback who, ...Latin (Baseball) Economics
A TSE reader, Jeff Baird, steered my attention toward an Economist article on Draft Dodgers No More: Can The Dominican Republic Avoid Puerto Rico's Fate? MLB included Puerto Ricans in ...