April 2009
8 posts
Wicked Game
My thoughts on our culture’s faux self-deprecation about alleged “nerdiness” are well-documented, so I won’t go into full Howard Beale rant mode over something that all 13 readers of this lowly Tumblr are already clear on. But I will say this: if you spend half as much time tonight reading through the Game Theory Dictionary as I just did, you just might be an...
Walk on By
philiplarson:
Suck on that, Sabermetricians!
You mock my people, Philip, but what you fail to realize is that we already have a name for this group. They’re the DiSars!
All MLB hitters with at least 15 plate appearances who have yet to draw a walk in 2009:
Rk Player PA BB AVG OBP SLG OPS Team
1 B. Molina 49 0 .277 .265 .468 .733 SFG
2 Y. Betancourt...
Twitter was made for this ...
Thought of the Day: The ability to express oneself more profoundly is the purpose of education in creative arts.
— David Lynch, 2:23 PM Mar 24th from web
@DAVID_LYNCH If that is the case where does strategic promotion with advertising fit into that case?
— Michael Bay, 2:27 PM Mar 24th from web
The More You Know ...
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEALL EDITION
Blue Jays starter David Purcey accomplished something on Sunday that only eight other pitchers in Major League Baseball history have done before.
In just 4 2/3 innings against the Indians’ lineup, Purcey struck out 10 opposing hitters — a total that ties him with notorious live arms Sandy Koufax, Sam McDowell, Bill Caudill, Bobby Witt, Norm...
Beautiful Trash
Ryan’s Termite Art Thursday Viewing: Femme Fatale.
Every year at the Toronto Film Festival—and quite possibly at other festivals around the world, major or minor—director Brian De Palma can be spotted shuffling around with the rest of the press and industry folks, slipping inconspicuously into one screening after another. If he weren’t a semi-celebrity (at least among nerdy cineastes...
I'll be honest
Reading about the real-world Tyler Coates makes me glad I’m not Tyler Coates, and I don’t think he’d be surprised that his descriptions of — say — his culinary adventures had that effect on people. They are quite funny, though — so props for that.
The Rock
I try not to be a self-aggrandizing pseudo-stathead — one of those pretend-self-flagellating types who prefaces his opinions with “You’ll have to excuse me, because I’m a total baseball nerd,” and thinks he’s special because he has a serious problem with the run-estimator at the heart of VORP. Generally speaking, I don’t think much of people who try to...
