Bliss
Dodgers Sweep! They won a playoff series for the first time since 1988 (the year of Gibson’s home run and Hershiser’s scoreless innings streak). Joy is everywhere!
Archive of entries posted on 4th October 2008
Numeracy-challenged
I’ve worked around accounting offices for years, so numbers don’t ordinarily intimidate me. The home page at FiveThirtyEight.com, however, is another story. It’s an electoral polling and projections site started by Nate Silver, a baseball sabermetrician gone bad. Anyway, if you can get past the initial shock, there’s an awful lot of useful and informative …
Dear Commish
Why? Why do you let football-loving television networks push you into delaying your premium product’s start time until 10:00pm EDT, when the viewership will probably approximate the number of bulls left on Wall Street after the past week? The Dodgers – Cubs Game Three is scheduled for this evening at that ridiculous hour, and so …