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davidu sent in a chilling story which explained why Phillies center fielder Doug Glanville hit two home runs off of Curt Schilling, pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks. An eye for an eye.
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My guess is this is the first and last time you will see the words "Dwarven Cleric" anywhere in the ESPN archives.
Well, Jayson Stark (the author of the article) makes frequent reference to the fact that Doug Glanville is a Yale graduate summa cum laude. I'd hardly call that stupid. Doug is also a hilarious guy if he really does say all the things Jayson writes... and from an interview I saw with Doug, I wouldn't doubt it.
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amazingly enough, atheletes are probably the most technologically equipped people out there from what I've read. When you have essentially 4 or 5 months with relatively litlle (read: not a damn thing, sir.) to do, and a lot of money, computer gear isn't so bad. If you made 280k a year (that's poor for an athelete!) and were in your early 20's (most professional atheletes tend to be that old) you'd probably have grown up with a nintendo, sega, gameboy, etc. Chances are you'd love nothing better than to sit around and play games for a few hours a day (and be able to afford amazing amounts of cool gear). I sure know that if I played baseball, which essentially means the entire winter all i'd have to do is lift some weights (maybe 2 hrs a day) I'd sure get myself a pimped out rig of computers, a PS2, a Dreamcast and huge TV and invite all my rich friends over to play games (who also happen to be atheletes with nothing to do). I remember reading an article once btw, from the 3DO people who said that Vladimir Gurrero (baseball player for the Montreal Expos) and his also-ballplaying brother used High Heat Baseball 2001 to 'scout' the pitchers they were going to face in upcoming games. Amazing eh? (and not entirely a bad idea, since the makers of the game do the same thing to get the proper AI for the game, I'm sure you've seen the commercials with Marshall Faulk and they try to get him to drop the football so they can get a fumble for the motion captures and stuff). So it's probably a lot more widespread these days, and using a computer doesn't necessarily mean you're pasty white and sit in a chair all day and work in the tech industry. It's not just for uber-geeks anymore.
For those of you who aren't baseball fans (or Phillies fans like me) I should give you the geek background on Doug Glanville. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Transportation Engineering, and every time Jayson Stark (who wrote for the Philly Inquirer before he joined ESPN.com) approaches him for a quote, he comes through with something bizarre and hilarious. In past Stark columns, he's made comments about the earth's gravitational constant's being decreased to allow more home runs, and when teammates compared him to old-time player Wally Pipp, he commented, "I hope they were talking about Picture-In-Picture technology." Stark himself is a real math geek too - every week he publishes this column of numerical abberations from around Baseball. Like the week the Detroit Tigers had more babies (2) than wins (0).
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"Here to discuss how the AOL merger will affect consumers is the CEO of AOL."
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Todd Pratt (he plays for the Mets, although I have no idea what position) also plays Ultima Online as "Ian Stormbringer." He's been featured on their site a number of times, and I believe his endorsement was featured on the box of UO:R.
Professional atheletes like killings orcs too!
It's good to see some crossover nerd/professional sportsmen. Anyone know of any other hornrimmed athletes out there?
Ok my karma is maxed out. When do I become Enlightened?
Now, posting a sports article to slashdot... Perhaps one of the most brilliant moves in history, and aside from the comments immediately following, it will likely go virtually unnoticed.
A shame...
We need more zany slashdot stories like this, and less of the boring, mindless drivel that seems to be echoing the stories of last week over and over and over again... I mean, news is great, but cheddar makes it better, you know? Variety is greater!
If not for Schilling, ASL (perhaps the most popular modular historical skirmish game) would have gone the way of so many games before it. I have a lot of respect for the guy.
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Damn, looks like I'll have to load everquest back up. I'll get that baseball scholarship yet!
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One of us needs to stick ones' head in a bucket of ice water.
- Hobbes
Geeks wonderful, jocks evil.
Well, I don't know about you, but I must say that I prefer my baseball players to be rock-stupid, backwoods types. It makes me feel like there is a little karmic balance in the world. No fair if they are smart and interesting too, because then I have no way to satisfactorily explain my inability to run, catch or throw...
Are they jocks or geeks? It just doesn't make sense!!!
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Stay in school, kids! Peace out, Dubya