Less frequently than I would have guessed, it turns out. Good research here. Hat tip to Andy Hutchins for the link.
How often do NFL players listed as ‘probable’ play?
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How to demonstrate that you’re definitely ready for the Majors in 149 Triple-A at-bats
I stumbled onto Willie Mays’ Minor League numbers after that McCovey story led me to baseball-reference. Holy hell. Obviously small-sample size caveats apply, and Triple-A then wasn’t the same as Triple-A now, but, well, yeah. There was good stuff about this in Leo Durocher’s book, about Mays’ adjustment to the big leagues.
Video shows umpires have been wrong for decades
Larry Granillo at wezen-ball has been beating the same drum I have about umpiring this season. He writes: “I feel like a broken record whenever I say that today’s umpiring is no
worse than yesterday’s (and is, perhaps, better), but I can’t help
myself. It’s just that, with today’s media and today’s technology, you
can’t get away from your mistakes.”
ALERT: New Louisville arena called ‘KFC Yum! Center’
Well that’s going to make it a lot more difficult for me to hate Louisville basketball, even as a fan and alumnus of a competing Big East school. If they called it the Taco Bell Yum! Center, I might have been forced to switch allegiances.
O.G. Ichabod Crane
Did you know that the real-life Ichabod Crane was not a skinny Tarrytown schoolteacher but a stout, Staten Island military man? Washington Irving apparently thought he had a cool name, which makes sense, because he did. Lots of headless-horseman love up in Westchester this time of year. Hat tip to Jonah Keri for the link.
Leitch: Clean Sweep
Will Leitch pretty much nails the Mets’ offseason situation. Nothing new here if you read this site regularly, but it’s comprehensive and clearly stated.
Justin Bieber disses Tom Brady
Stock rising: Justin Bieber. Stock falling: Tom Brady. Watch the video.
Shocking news: BCS system nonsense
Excellent read, in which Bill James calls the BCS computerized rankings “nonsense math.” Hat tip to Chris M for the link. Sorry for the link-heavy morning here; busy day in the office. More stuff coming in the afternoon.
25 best lines from Moneybart
Very quotable episode. Best I’ve seen in a while, though I haven’t watched The Simpsons regularly in ten years.
Best playoff pitching matchup in history?
The baseball-reference blog points out that Tim Lincecum and Roy Halladay both turned in top-10 all-time gamescores in their first starts this postseason and ponders if it’s the best playoff pitching matchup in history. Kinda hard to top Roger Clemens-Pedro Martinez in the 1999 ALCS — even if Clemens got torched that night and was coming off a bad season. Also of note: Owner of the third-best postseason pitching gamescore ever? You guessed it: Babe Ruth.
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