Political Tidbits: Winning House Seats

Depending on the year, only five to ten percent of all congressional House seats could be called competitive. In rare instances you’ll see higher numbers. But basically, only 10% of House seats are within striking distance in any given year.
There are many reasons. Campaign laws favor incumbents over challengers. Districts are often gerrymandered (see especially [...]

I Contribute to the GDP

Captain Capitalism has finally come out with his “I Contribute to the GDP” T-Shirt idea (Lawyers and [most] liberal arts professors need not apply). Also, he has a book coming out soon (about three weeks).
Check out his blog for more details.

The Negative VORP club of the Twins

Value Over Replacement Player, or VORP, is a counting stat which awards players runs based on offensive performance compared to the statistical concept of the replacement player. The distribution of talent in baseball is not normal but pyramidal. There are a lot more players at the bottom than at the top. With [...]

Jewish Baseball Players

David Moore:

I wouldn’t mind getting the mentioned set, there are a few on ebay but you can’t have everything you want when you’re preparing for grad school.

From the Notebook

-The second Twins Podcast of the year is up, Dan Wade, Dan Carey, Seth Stohs and Jeff Straub all joined me for an hour long roundtable discussion. I will be the first to admit I’m a little rusty, but I think other than some little snafus and a lot of verbal pauses I feel did [...]

Twins Podcast

Dan Wade and Dan Carey from the Bleacher Report, along with Seth Stohs and Jeff Straub joined me on the Podcast this week.
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Twins Podcast

At 8pm CT, available my BTR homepage.
Call-in number is 646-652-4947

Twins Podcast

At 8pm CT, available my BTR homepage.
Call-in number is 646-652-4947

Random Link o’ the Day:

http://jewishmajorleaguers.org/

Random Link o’ the Day:

http://www.minorleaguesplits.com/mlecalc.html
(It’s a Minor League Equivalency Calculator)