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Monday, July 28, 2008

Brian Bannister, Hardball Times, and FIP

By Tangotiger, 02:44 PM

The blogger di tutti bloggi Joe Posnanski (*):

Brian Bannister feels nervous over breakfast. And when Bannister feels nervous, he goes to the numbers. In rough times, he has always found comfort in numbers. “Look at my xFIP,” he is saying as he pulls out a few pages he printed off the Internet site, “The Hardball Times.” He points out his xFIP

(*)If it wasn’t for blogs, I would never have read a Posnanski article.  Because of blogs, I now read too much of Murray Chass.  Equilibrium.


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