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Rocket Science vs. Barry Bonds
Ray Radlein writes "How about a good old-fashioned Sports story? With its multitude of different statistical measures, baseball has always had the highest Geek Quotient of any major sport. Alpha Geeks of Baseball have included former relief pitcher Rob Murphy, who put his Computer Science degree to good use writing software to evaluate thoroughbred race horses, and Boston Red Sox ace and probable future Hall of Famer Curt Schilling, who not only runs a company that makes hex-based war games, but once got embroiled in an on-field feud due to Everquest. However, Baseball Geeks have a new hero to look up to: Jason Szuminski, who on Sunday became the first MIT graduate to pitch in a major league baseball game. His degree in Aerospace Engineering must have stood him in good stead as he observed the ballistic trajectory of a Barry Bonds fly ball which just barely stayed inside the Padres' new stadium."
So what you're saying is: baseball is basically like cricket, but it's designed for low-grade morons.
Ok smarty, explain the infield fly rule to me? Oh, you can't because you're a fucking moron? That's what I thought.
Now think about your breathing you fucking moron.
He still used steroids and got away with it.
the baseball players when I went to college were universally regarded as the _dumbest_ of the sports players. Some of the least hostile, but certainly not a lot of voltage.
Now, the entire team of lesbian basketball players... they were obviously more intelligent...
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