THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Selling out to the establishment! Going behind a pay-wall! Horrors!

Seriously, this is a good move for you. Congratulations.

Congratulations. Hope this goes well for you and brings more opportunities your way.

Next to BP? Sell out. Not free? Sell out.

Tango,

Nice move! Now I have to consider if I want ESPN or BP. Yikes…

I just launched a site today. Check it out. Bullpenbanter.com

~jd

Congrats, Tango.  This is indeed a good move for you and for ESPN.

JD, it’s too early for me.  Let’s see how it goes.

Thanks guys, let’s see how this plays out, if what we do will make any impact, or if we’ll be stuck in our little corner.

Wow, Tom, that’s a lot of compartments in that brain of yours, how are you going to keep it all straight?

Anyway, congratulations!

Congrats!  I’m looking forward to it.

I don’t know how you find time to do all this stuff.

Congrats, hope the world wide leader sends a little money for the honey your way.

Congrats Tom! It’s great that your ideas and work will get even wider exposure. Good luck.

I don’t have ESPN insider, so I can’t read the Jeter article. Are these articles gonna be sabermetric-heavy, or sabermetrics 101?

Zach, see post 7.

I was all set to try to set up something to squeeze all the money out of your wallets, when I saw a link to just an incredible deal.  If you used to have ESPN, then $1 a year.  If you are new, then $4 a year.  Just use the coupon code and you are set.
$4: http://www.slickdeals.net/blog/index.php/2010/02/27/espn-magazine-w-insider-4year-muscle-fitness-4year/
$1: http://www.slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1713259

So, there you go.  It’s a ridiculously low offer. 

Thanks for the link Tom.  The only problem I have is that now I have to throw away so many magazines.  What a waste.

Steven/15, my thoughts exactly.  The poor trees that give their lives for that rag.  I’ve seen some bad publishing in my time, but that takes the cake.

I’ll pay whatever you’re charging. All the best.

Just so everyone knows, it doesn’t look like you get insider access right away when you sign up.  In fact, it says that you don’t have access until you receive your first magazine, which can take 6 weeks.  I don’t know if it will really take that long though…

Josh, thanks. 

I won’t be charging anything since you’ve got $4 for a year of ESPN Insider, which also gets you BPro and Fangraphs Insider articles

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I was going to crreate a Tangotiger Newsletter, and charge a one-time lifetime fee for charter members of, I dunno, $20?  50$?  After that, I would have done that price point as an annual fee.

But, I really didn’t want to get into that if I didn’t have to.

Finally accessed it.  Nice post.  One suggestion for this (relatively) mass audience:  a couple examples can really strengthen your arguments.  In this case, you might have shown a couple players who were productive at age 32-35 but then fell off a cliff.  I’m not arguing that you substitute anecdotes for data (like you ever would), but illustrations can help less-stat-savy fans to see your points.

I would much rather pay $50 to Tango than pay 5 cents to ESPN.  Perhaps my hatred for ESPN is irrational, but I absolutely refuse to support them.

Guy, agreed.  I was given a 250-500 limit, and what I submitted was a bit over 500 words, and they chopped off a few sentences from that. 

They even took out the part that I had to exclude Dimaggio and Clemente from the sample because, well, you know.  So, it’s a tough thing.  It’s like the WSJ pieces, where word limits take priority.

Tango,

Stupid question… Why is there a word limit for an blog post on the internet?

Probably something to do with short attention spa…

Google Reader worked for me to see the whole article yesterday.  Today I only get a brief paragraph for both this article and the Mauer one in Google Reader. :(

Hmmm… I wonder how long Insider has been free via Reader and I wonder how many people are going to be upset at me for mentioning it.