"Sell Ryan Braun to the highest bidder. Unload him. The Brewers own the rights to the lying doper for several more years..."

"... so they should be able to get some value. Yeah, the disgraced left fielder could veto the trade, but he won’t.... 'Braun, you’re through in Milwaukee. I can’t stand the sight of you, now get out!'"

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Scott Walker is disappointed in Ryan Braun.

"It was bad enough that he broke the rules, but the fact that he didn't immediately fess up to it, that he dragged it all out... It's not just what he did, it's that he strung us out for so long."

He said Braun seemed to him to be the all-American guy, soft-spoken, not too cocky.

"All the more reason why it's disappointing," Walker said.

Forgiveness? It's going to take "a long time."

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"As I have acknowledged in the past, I am not perfect. I realize now that I have made some mistakes."

Said Ryan Braun.

Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun has been suspended without pay for the rest of the season, a 65-game ban announced Monday by Major League Baseball in what appears to be the first salvo in the league's fight against players allegedly tied to the Biogenesis lab.

It's relatively easy to accept this at this point in the season, when the Brewers are essentially hopeless. Get it done.

It appears Braun and MLB negotiated the terms of his suspension....

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The NYT public editor: "I don’t think Nate Silver ever really fit into the Times culture..."

"... and I think he was aware of that. He was, in a word, disruptive."

Much like the Brad Pitt character in the movie “Moneyball” disrupted the old model of how to scout baseball players, Nate disrupted the traditional model of how to cover politics.

His entire probability-based way of looking at politics ran against the kind of political journalism that The Times specializes in: polling, the horse race, campaign coverage, analysis based on campaign-trail observation, and opinion writing, or “punditry,” as he put it, famously describing it as “fundamentally useless.”

That's a lot more than awareness to not fitting in. It's hard to fit in with people you are attacking.

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Nate Silver to switch his statistics work from politics to sports.

He's leaving the NYT for ESPN.

Before creating statistical models for elections, Mr. Silver was a baseball sabermetrician who built a highly effective system for projecting how players would perform in the future. For a time he was a managing partner of Baseball Prospectus. At public events recently, he has expressed interest in covering sports more frequently, so the ESPN deal is a logical next step.

I take it ESPN has lots of money and the Times does not.

I had to look up the word "sabermetrician." Wikipedia says: "Sabermetrics is the specialized analysis of baseball through objective evidence, especially baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. The term is derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research. It was coined by Bill James, who is one of its pioneers and is often considered its most prominent advocate and public face."

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