So I was playing outside with my son on Saturday. Nice sunny day here in Ohio, the kind of early Spring day on which mothers remember that sunscreen and hats and sunglasses and asbestos underwear are required lest their children immediately turn into a tumor. Bald husbands too, so Carlo (a/k/a Son of Shyster, a/k/a […]
Oh, please oh please be a parody: Sabermetricians. Ugh. It’s like Major League meets Revenge of the Nerds, except the nerds aren’t fun and they think they’re better than you. And Bob Uecker isn’t there to keep things interesting with the occasional witty one-liner. I can’t say that sabermetrics as a statistical form of analysis […]
Reds 4, Astros 2: Micah Owings has a 7.20 ERA for the Reds this year. Yesterday he pinch hit and hit a two-run double that proved to be the game-winner. Management consultants refer to this phenomenon as a “misallocation of resources.” Blue Jays 1, Athletics 0: The A’s were shutout for the third time this […]
In an extension of a recent column, Chris notes a slew of occasions when life and baseball had something interesting happen to them in the same day.