the 2011 SABR convention in Long Beach, CA, July 6-10

The 2011 convention will feature two major league games as part of the official convention program - the Angels playing Detroit or Seattle, and the Dodgers playing New York or San Diego.

http://convention.sabr.org/

With so much drama in the LBC
Its kinda hard bein snoop D-O-double-G
But I somehow some way
Keep comin up with funky ass shit like every single day

I'm sure Snoop will come to the minor-league game on Sunday

Cal State Long Beach fields decent (?) teams as well... lemme wiki

Notable former players

Jason Giambi - MLB player for the Colorado Rockies
Danny Espinosa - MLB player for the Washington Nationals
Evan Longoria - MLB player for the Tampa Bay Rays
Troy Tulowitzki - MLB player for the Colorado Rockies
Chris Rice - MLB player for the Boston Red Sox
Jered Weaver- MLB player for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Jason Vargas - MLB player for the Seattle Mariners
Bobby Crosby - MLB player for the Oakland Athletics
Chris Gomez - MLB player for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Jeremy Reed - MLB player for the New York Mets

Didnt Tulo, Lil' Weav and Longoria play on the same team? At least 2 of the 3.

Dirtbag styleee

anyway I imagine they will be aiming to bring in Vin Scully for a 60-90-minute interview at this.

tentative game trips:

Thu July 7 - Mets at Dodgers
Sat July 9 - Mariners at Angels
Sun July 10 - minor league game

I've made my reservation for this! I would've asked if anyone wants to join SABR and share a room w/ Dr Morbius, but I'm guessing "no."

I always look forward to your baseball and film comments, Morbius, but we must respect the buffer zone as currently configured.

if that july 10 game isn't in the inland empire...

Well, now the schedule has been altered; Dodger game on Friday, so vs Padres, not Mets. :p

http://www.minors.sabrwebs.com/content/sabr-41-schedule

and the California League game is the Lake Elsinore Storm hosting the Visalia Rawhide. (battle of the collective nouns)

haha

you gonna go?

oh n/m i see you already signed up!

btw Scott Boras's speech is at 8:30am! The banquet speaker will be someone as yet unannounced; I'm hoping for Scully.

SABR 41 Media Panel

“Where we’re going to be getting our baseball information a decade from now”

Panelists will be:
Dave Cameron – Managing Editor of FanGraphs, one of the most dynamic websites for analysis, statistical and otherwise, of contemporary baseball.
Sean Forman – Founder and Guru of baseball-reference.com, the premier site for baseball statistics.
Bill Squadron – General Manager of Bloomberg Sports, developing real-time analytic tools for the fan.
Russ Stanton – Editor of the Los Angeles Times, a mainstream publication that’s moving aggressively into putting its content on the web.

The panel will be at 1:30 pm on Thursday July 7.

FanGraphs.com has teamed up with SABR to hold its "FanGraphs Live" event at the same hotel as the SABR convention, the Long Beach Hilton in Southern California. FanGraphs Live will take place from 7-10 p.m. on Thursday, July 7.

Admission is $20, but SABR members can receive a 50% discount by registering for FanGraphs Live at the SABR Store.

Among the confirmed guests for FanGraphs Live are: Rob Neyer, national baseball writer for SB Nation; Vince Gennaro, author of Diamond Dollars and professor at Columbia University; Rich Lederer, curator at Baseball Analysts; Jon Weisman, writer at the Dodger Thoughts blog; Eric Stephen, writer at the True Blue LA blog; Jonah Keri, author of The Extra 2%; Carson Cistulli, editor at FanGraphs.com; David Appelman, president of FanGraphs.com; and Dave Cameron, managing editor of FanGraphs.com.

SABR Era Panel, 9 a.m. Friday, July 8: "The Evolution of Baseball Over SABR's Four Decades".
A panel honoring SABR’s 40th anniversary will look at the changes that have taken place in the game over those decades. Panelists include: John Thorn, MLB’s Official Historian and author of Baseball in the Garden of Eden; John Dewan, a founder of STATS, Inc., and Baseball Info Solutions, and author of the influential The Fielding Bible; Wes Parker, former Dodgers player and the team’s Player Representative when SABR was founded; Dennis Gilbert, player agent, part-owner of the White Sox, benefactor of scouts and former minor league player.

GMs Panel, 3 p.m. Saturday, July 9: "The Changing Role of the General Manager".
Panelists include: Jed Hoyer, general manager of the San Diego Padres; Fred Claire, former Dodgers general manager from 1987-98; Dan Evans, former Dodgers general manager from 2001–04 and now a consultant to the industry.

Research presentations (these are about half the former number):

http://sabr.org/content/sabr-41-research-presentations

A Player Panel will follow the SABR awards presentations on Sunday morning. The awards presentations start at 10:30 AM.

Del Crandall was born in 1930 in Ontario, California, and attended high school in nearby Fullerton. The Braves signed Crandall in 1948, and the catcher made his debut the following season. He played for 16 years, hitting 179 home runs. Crandall was key to the Braves' success as National League champions in 1957 and 1958.

Tommy Davis was born in 1939 in Brooklyn and signed by the Dodgers in 1956. The leftfielder made his debut in 1959. Davis led the National League in batting average in both 1962 and 1963. In addition, in 1963 he led the league in hits (230) and RBI (153). Davis batted .313 in the postseason, including the 1963 and 1966 World Series. He played for several teams after leaving the Dodgers, including the 1969 Seattle Pilots. His career included 18 seasons and 1999 games.

We also expect a representative of the Angels to join this panel.

Will Carroll medicine panel in 10 minutes... tomorrow, new media chat and a presentation on the Astros' trade of Joe Morgan.

sabr crowd medicine panel i picture a lot of these

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ycmmpsqmmZo/TRk25lRBfDI/AAAAAAAAAWY/6gMZy-M8qCk/s1600/pill%2Bbox.jpg

consensus: cuffs take forever to heal.

Boras very entertaining. he said he won Steve Avery's arb case the year he was 9-14 (?) w/ a "Bobby Cox must be an idiot" defense. Emphazized the psychological and performance-related services of his agency.

learned many things yesterday, incl that Scott Rolen and St Jeter have the same career WAR.

Apparently MLB is equipping parks with cameras that will record a million datapoints per game to measure defense.

did boras explain why he hasn't instructed bryce harper to keep his fucking mouth shut if for no other reason than potential endorsement money?

Bryce did not come up.

This morning saw Wes Parker, looking pretty good for 70ish, demonstrating some of his Gold Glove 1B stratagems to an impromptu crowd on the balcony.

Also just peed next to Rob Neyer (not on the balcony).

i would be interested in neyer's thoughts about espn.com, but i guess that's unlikely to happen

I'd say so.

The SABR site is doing more almost-live coverage than ever...You can listen to Boras' speech here:

http://173.193.29.204-static.reverse.softlayer.com/latest/sabr-41-boras-keynote-speech-focuses-data-psychology

And play along w/ the trivia finals tonight (very late, Pacific time):

http://sabr.org/content/sabr-41-trivia-finals

Thanks for the links!

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/08/sports/la-sp-0709-sabermetrics-20110709

http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_18449245

Tommy Davis, the 2-time Dodger batting champ, pointed at my cap this morning and said "Mets! I played for you. One year." I said "I know!" without adding that I was in kindergarten that season. It was a pretty funny panel with Davis and Al Ferrara, both Brooklynites who played for the Koufax Dodgers.

did you notice Tom Tango in attendance wearing that goofy Mexican wrestling mask?

no

Minneapolis next year, PHILLY in 2013 :p

hey, it's the GM panel I missed:

http://sabr.org/latest/sabr-41-general-managers-role-takes-total-dedication