* Article on changing HBP rates in The Hardball Times

* The Hardball Times is a website as well as an annual volume that evaluates the preceding major league season and presents original research articles on various sabermetric topics.

* John Walsh, " Strike Zone: Fact vs. Fiction ," The Hardball Times, July 11, 2007.

The Hardball Times has developed its own Win Shares, as well as a number of derivative statistics, such as Win Shares Above Bench, Win Shares Percentage, Win Shares Above Average, and All Star Win Shares.

* Sortable Win Shares for 2004-2008 MLB-The Hardball Times

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* The Williams-Santo Cubs 1961-1965 @ The Hardball Times

* 15-july 21-1963 / The Hardball Times ' This Week in Annotated Baseball History discusses Thigpen's career

* Interview, The Hardball Times, 5 / 2 / 05

In addition to those more obvious changes, Craig Brown of The Hardball Times also attributed Mussina's renaissance to excellent control, noting that he was walking fewer batters than ever before and was becoming a ground-ball pitcher for the first time in his career.

Entering the season The Hardball Times predicted him as their " consensus pick for the Cy Young ".

Vazquez throws from a 3 / 4 arm slot with " good command of a running / sinking fastball " that has, according to FanGraphs, overall averaged 91 mph according to Josh Kalk of The Hardball Times was " over 93 mph on average " in his peak.

The Hardball Times, a popular baseball statistics website, uses a slightly different FIP equation, instead using 3 *( BB + HBP-IBB ) rather than simply 3 *( BB ) where " HBP " stands for batters hit by pitch and " IBB " stands for intentional base on balls.

Dave Studeman of The Hardball Times derived Expected Fielding Independent Pitching ( xFIP ), a regressed version of FIP.

Never known for his speed on the basepaths, Phillips was picked as the slowest active ballplayer by using a formula based on Bill James ' speed scores by the Hardball Times in April 2006.

One Hardball Times writer predicted that the Giants ' old players would stop producing in the future.

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In addition, the programs Morning Joe, The Ed Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and The Rachel Maddow Show all finished ahead of their time slot competitors on CNN.

On August 31, 2006, Harris was interviewed on Hardball with Chris Matthews, where she responded to the criticisms from her former staffers with " We have their email traffic, we know what was behind all that, we know who's been paid and who isn't.

's release, there were managerial baseball games available, such as Micro League Baseball but Hardball!

Kuhn later wrote in his autobiography, Hardball: The Education of a Baseball Commissioner, that he was shocked at what he called a " foolish gamble " by the Senators, and predicted that the trade would turn out to be a Tiger heist.

On Hardball with Chris Matthews, Culberson defended Texas Governor Rick Perry's secession comments saying " don't make too much of what Gov.

In 1994, he co-starred on the Fox comedy Hardball as Frank Valente, the young, ego-centric star player on a fictional professional baseball team.

A frequent guest on television and radio, he has appeared on such programs as Meet the Press, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, The O ' Reilly Factor, Tim Russert, Special Report with Brit Hume, Laura Ingraham, and Hardball with Chris Matthews, and has contributed occasional commentaries to National Public Radio.

* In the 2001 film Hardball, Keanu Reeves coaches a ragtag bunch of kids on an inner-city little league team.

After passing a leadership course, Gravity was made the leader of Nevada's Initiative team, the Heavy Hitters, where he was joined by Initiative graduates Hardball, Nonstop and Telemetry.

However, the plan backfireed when Hardball felt betrayed by Komodo and his team.

Sometimes the sport is called Quad Hockey, Hóquei em Patins ( PT ), Rolhockey ( NL ), Rollhockey ( DE ), International Style Ball hockey, Rink Hockey ( FR ), Hockey Su Pista ( IT ), Hoquei sobre Patins ( CA ), Hockey sobre Patines ( ES ), Rulleskøjtehockey ( DA ), Rullbandy ( S ), Rulluisuhoki ( ET ) and Hardball hockey ( US ), depending on which region of the world it is played.

* The season 3 Numb3rs episode " Hardball " focuses on sabermetrics, and the season 1 episode " Sacrifice " also covers the subject.

Franks rejected the critical comments on Hardball with Chris Matthews on 17 April 2006.

Buchanan stated on the September 7, 2004 edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews, " There is a chance I would vote for Peroutka.

On March 12, 2009, Gaffney appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and accused former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of being involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing, " There is also circumstantial evidence, not proven by any means, but nonetheless some pretty compelling circumstantial evidence of Saddam Hussein's Iraq being involved with the people who perpetrated both the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and even the Oklahoma City bombing.

* Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.

Buchanan also was a frequent guest and co-host of Morning Joe as well as Hardball and The Rachel Maddow Show.

Riverside Park also features the " Hardball Cafe ", featuring a menu of ballpark foods, flame-grilled meats, and a taco salad.

However, the show began to lose its audience, with the increasing popularity of alternatives like Hannity and Colmes on the Fox News Channel and Hardball on MSNBC.

Christopher John " Chris " Matthews ( born December 17, 1945 ) is an American news anchor and political commentator known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is televised on the American cable television channel MSNBC.

On March 22, 2009, Matthews renewed the contract for Hardball with Chris Matthews through 2012.

While discussing proposed healthcare reform on the December 17, 2009, edition of Hardball, Matthews stated, " The Republicans will know they have lost .... Let them keep score and it's easy.

In 1997, Matthews began his own talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which originally aired on CNBC but is currently on MSNBC.

Hardball features pundits and elected officials as guests.

He also wrote a book called Hardball.

He has also had other health problems, including diabetes ( which he acknowledged having on the Hardball broadcast of December 7, 2009 ) and pneumonia.

Matthews apologized for the comments on the January 17, 2008, edition of Hardball.

In February 2010 the Family Research Council's Senior Researcher for Policy Studies, Peter Sprigg, stated on NBC's Hardball that gay behavior should be outlawed and that " criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior " should be enforced.