2011 Baseball Predictions

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I did pretty well with last year’s predictions (aside from predicting a duck boat parade in Boston).

"'04 + '07 = '11"

There’s nothing as foolish as trying to pick a 162 game baseball season. But that didn’t stop me from trying. For the 3rd straight year I’ve picked Lester to win the Cy Young and Boston to win the World Series. Guess what? This year, I’m right. Duck boats. There will be duck boats.

Schwartz and Gideon are sure to disagree. Perhaps Dan Fitzgerald can shed some insight.  But I challenge you and them to best my predictions. Last year, I had small duckboat parade in my mind to celebrate my predictions beating all comers. You get one point for each accurate prediction.

Official A CT Law Blog Predictions below the jump:

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Why The Judicial Branch Numbers Matter

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The Hanging Shad has clarified his original post regarding a 38% increase in judicial branch employees over the past 10 years.

Colin McEnroe has written about the “reverse funnel effect” in the blogosphere.  For the most part the blogosphere is a giant echo chamber comprised of persons with broadband access commenting on the work of others.  Sometimes, the blogosphere breaks a story that gets picked up on by traditional media.

Last week, the Shad’s story on the increase in legislative employees got picked up by several traditional news outlets and resulted in editorials.

When I saw his original post about the Judicial Branch numbers – I nearly fell out of my chair.  They didn’t seem right to me at all.

So I did what bloggers normally do – I wrote a post commenting on the work of another blogger. Echo chamber indeed.

Normally, I don’t care about such things. I’m not some sort of cop on the blogosphere beat.

But these numbers were different.

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Better Law Blog Referral Source? Twitter or Facebook

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Yesterday, I was looking at a break down of this site’s traffic on Google Analytics.  Google Analytics provides me with all sorts of data about my site. Pretty much right down to what my readers are wearing when they read my posts.

Here’s a chart that kind of surprised me. It’s my referral sources. Anytime, someone got to my site from another site (e.g. google, the Hartford Courant, Facebook, and Twitter):

For reasons known only to God, I have 662 followers on Twitter.  For a point of reference, I have 627 “friends” on Facebook.

Guess which slice of that pie chart accounts for twitter referrals?

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My Thoughts On Judicial Branch Staffing Numbers

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Here’s where I think the Hanging Shad got it wrong. He wrote:

There are several possible reasons for the dramatic increase but one of them is not the fact that marshals—in charge of courthouse security, prisoner transportation and such—were made employees of the judicial branch when the state reformed the old sheriffs’ system. That happened in 2000 and the change is reflected in the 2001 number.

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Thinking of Starting A Law Blog? Read Joe Posnanski First.

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Joe Posnanski is the best sports writer on the planet. The man can write. This is his blog. It is appropriately titled “Joe Blogs”. It is hosted for free by google. Joe uses the most generic blogger template available. If all one did was create a blogger account and click through your blog would look … Read more