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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."
All this talk about projectile motion is making me itch to play a game of grand theft auto
He's only doing a case study.
Slashdot: Failed Car Analogies. Amateur Lawyering. Anecdote Battles.
One might say Bonds fought he law, and the law won.
"The United States has no right, no desire, and no intention to impose our form of government on anyone else." - Bush 05
"But what's the bag going to look like?" Szuminski asked.
Methinks this guy has been watching a little too much Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
Oh well, at least he's a pitcher and not a catcher.
1. get killed by your friend in everquest
2. get back at him by hitting two home runs
3. take down the espn servers by linking it to slashdot
4. ???
5. profit!
Everquest players caught playing baseball... how tragic!
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
- Seneca
Baseball's only a fairly minor sport in world terms.
Quick, name the countries that have won Olympic gold medals in cricket.
Free Mac Mini. Yes, I'm
What's the mathematical symbol for steroids and how would you represent it in your equation?
We should be putting our brains in jars, not celebrating our limitations in some meatspace "sport".
;)
I believe Ted Williams beat you to the punch when he had his head cryogenically frozen so he could later be cloned. And you say you can't apply science to baseball.
There's no crying in math.
Slashdot... sports? You do realize that would involve getting up and moving right?
Slashdot sucks
Call me when an MIT grad makes the NFL.
I thought that cricket had the highest geek quotient out of all the sports, since you need some kind of technical degree to understand WTF is going on in the game.
Now, there's hope for geeks with math and statistics degrees who want to break into baseball.
Let's face it, however, they still won't get laid.
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
You simply must hit the williard into some cilium with your fracaman. And remeber: it doesn't matter who wins. It matters who wins three times in a row. Tally ho!
I tutor statistics and calc at a big university (think Final Four) and at the 95% confidence level I reject the null hypothesis that IQfb > IQbb.
Oh, like that episode of the Simpsons where the hammock makes clones of Homer?
after failing to connect for the fifth straight game
Then get a new dial-up service!
although he was intentionally walked
They're taking that Petco thing too far.
and scored in the five-run eighth inning
Look, let's keep that kinda thing private... but scored with who?
"I'd like to do it at home," said Bonds
<butt-head>heh-heh heh-heh, he said "do it"</butt-head>
got Bonds to fly out to left
Cool! Like what the flying chair everybody thought the Segway was going to be?
San Diego's bullpen fell apart in the eighth
They obviously didn't engineer that structure very well.
San Diego manager Bruce Bochy had his only lefty reliever
Sounds like my adolescence.
I've found that my posts don't format quite right w/o a sig.
There just aren't that many rules in baseball that aren't common sense
I've had to explain the game to British visitors (familiar with cricket and rounders). So I'd have to disagree. You're just used to the rules, so they seem like common sense.
A foul is a strike, unless it's the third strike, which would make it an out, so it isn't, unless it's caught, so it's an out. Unless it's Tuesday, and...
Oh, look! How lucky you are! You've got half a Fizzbin already!
What is this Sports of which you speak?
SIGLOST && SIGUNUSED && SIGQUIT
Yeah, and the damn Miss Universe pageant is rigged: Earth always wins.
Why are we having a pissing contest about the two most boring sports ever?
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!