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Crazy Nines
August 19, 2008 – 10:32 PM | 9 Comments
Crazy Nines

You may care to enjoy a little baseball-related project I’ve got going: Crazy Nines, in which I put together fantasy teams based on the most arbitrary imaginable attributes.   The first team, Seven O’Clock Noir, …

Crazy Nines: Seven O’Clock Noir (The Black-and-White Team)
August 19, 2008 – 8:59 PM | 2 Comments
Crazy Nines: Seven O’Clock Noir (The Black-and-White Team)

I’ve decided to pull the content from my Crazy Nines blog over here, in the hopes that it will force me to update that section more often than I have. (These posts are a couple …