You may or may not be aware, but the guy who runs the now super-popular political website fivethirtyeight.com, Nate Silver, has been a big deal in baseball stat-head circles for a long while. He has a system of making baseball projections called PECOTA, which is short for something very impressive sounding that I forget right [...]
Category Archives: Fandom
God Bless America
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
At the Pirates game last night, for the first time in seven years that I remember, they did not sing God Bless America at the seventh inning stretch.
I’m glad I don’t have to sit through that cantankerous ditty anymore while the rednecks stare at me, wondering why I’m not standing with my hand over my [...]
Nyjer Morgan
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The Pirates lost tonight, but Nyjer Morgan is so cool.
I realize that he’s not a good player, and that he’ll never be a good player. The Pirates fans who talk about Nyjer Morgan as if he’s a prospect are overlooking the fact that he’s twenty-seven years old and has yet to log a full year [...]
11th Inning
Sunday, May 25, 2008
I just got back from the Pirates’ game. It was a real good one. I got to see a 2-6 double play, and one of the rare proper uses of the intentional walk. With the Pirates down by one in the bottom of the 11th, tied at four and a runner on second with two [...]
Patriots Suck
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Patriots’ videotapes include Steelers in 2002 AFC title game
Now we have more evidence confirming that the Patriots’ cheating was more widespread and more long-standing than previously believed. Last year, Bill Belichick promised the Commissioner that there wasn’t any other thing he should know about, and that no further evidence would pop up in the future. [...]
Sports Analogies
Thursday, March 27, 2008
In our political rhetoric, sports analogies are the analogies of choice. She hit a home run in that debate! That ad is a slam dunk! There’s two minutes to go in the Super Bowl and you’re down by four points, but $politician_name is Eli Manning. This sort of metaphor is par for the course.
But since [...]
