Archive for 8 June 2011

The Math Demands It

Posted 8 June 2011 by Wee Bey
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Descartes

Here’s what it’s like to be a fan of an utterly awful team. You find yourself pondering the mathematical possibilities of your team actually getting back into a pennant race. Winning baseball is all pastoral pondering and poetry — the math doesn’t come until the end, and even then it’s a “magic” number. But losing [...]