use your power for good, not for evil (or boredom)Baseball stat geeks are sometimes boring, sometimes stupid as well as trivial (as in “Johnny Littlebat is hitting .350 in Tuesday day games, but at .180 he can’t buy a hit…
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Sunday diversion, mf & hoops edition
those were the daysWhile Andy Pettite practices his big league stare in the Bronx, Roger Clemens stews in DC, and mothers everywhere recover from their home-made breakfasts, let’s go the the basketball courts, though not to the NBA. To DC…
Sunday diversion has questions / baseball questions, but still questions
a confession is required, another is merely requestedThe confessions is required is from me, though the question is whether a likely Hall of Fame catcher needs to confess. My confession is that I clicked on the Tom Verducci piece from…
Tagged with: Baseball, Diversion, Hall Of Fame, Mlb, Ped, Questions, Rodriguez, Sports Illustrated, Verducci
Sunday diversion / there are “rules” about foul balls, don'cha ya know
viral is as viral does, though starting in NY helpsMaybe it is the power of Yankee media, or maybe it is just that any trivial thing that happens involving the Yankees can’t be too trivial, but if you watched the…
Tagged with: Baseball, Dead Spin, Diversion, Foul Ball, Rules, Sports Illustrated, Today Show, Toddler, Viral
Sunday diversion / back to baseball
but nothing perfectAnd not about the very imperfect game thrown yesterday by Freddy Garcia. (You’re welcome, RS Nation.) This is one of the well-done uses of baseball stats, with an obvious headline but interesting supporting data: Quit throwing strikes to…
Sunday diversion / has to be baseball by now, right?
or, at least baseball relatedIf you think this guy on Grantland is a sanctimonious jerk, so what? Read it anyway. (I don’t think he was under the desk next to me in 1962; I remember doing this in the hallway.)…
beautiful Saturday diversion / beautiful city, time lapsed
these things never get old (for me, at least)This one, "both striking and soothing"(!), is worth 3:08 of your time. Who knew? The city that never sleeps, can soothe. It starts with the Flatiron and pauses in the Meatpacking, so…
a non-Easter diversion worthy of Easter
or, today in kidney transplant newsThis quote is from a New York Times piece in yesterday’s paper that has nothing to do with Easter, or with religion, except that it is intensely apropos for me today, before I head out…
weekend diversion / Final Four edition
signs the apocalypse may be upon usAmong the bizarre elements of this AP story this week out of a kidney dialysis clinic in Kentucky: (a) that the pugilists were 68 and 71 years old; and (b) that the Associated Press…
Sunday diversion: this week in kidney transplant media
been collecting a few of these disparate piecesNote to self: follow up to see how this story about a high school pitcher about to get a new kidney ends up. Kid has done a lot, 10-hour dialysis sessions and other…
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