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“This wouldn’t be just some minor tweak, like six mound visits per night. Wouldn’t this be the most dramatic rule change in baseball since the mound was lowered—half a century ago?” Jayson Stark looks at the benefits and challenges of baseball potentially eliminating The Shift....

Shift happens: The Pirates finally became winners by embracing a data-minded approach to pitching and defense. [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]...

"World Series Shits To Detroit" Declares <em>Chicago Tribune</em>, Fox News, Et AlGather ‘round, my little dreamlets. Grandpa's going to sing of the days before every baboon with a wireless connection could vomit up a website and call it news. In those long-forgotten times, human beings would staff publications—magazines and newspapers, chiefly. But as audience habits and adverti...