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There’s more than one way to bake a cake. But ask any pastry chef and you’ll hear there’s only one right way to bake a cake. That way, of course, is vastly different from chef to chef. Today, there is anguish on NoPepper.net. Clearly, I have a favorite baseball team. What kind of person would [...]
Sixty one. Remember when that was the milestone for baseball hitters? It was the Everest of statistical challenges: seemingly reachable, but only under a very specific set of circumstances. Maybe I just don’t like change. Sixty one still seems like the number to me. But that could start a debate. There’s no debating 56. Joe [...]
Pippa Middleton is kind of hot. That’s Kate Middleton’s sister, if you weren’t up at 4 a.m. to watch the Wedding of the Century. Are we that shallow of a society that this is what we have to talk about the day Osama bin Laden was killed? We are exactly that shallow. Almost ten years [...]
People smarter than me call it noise. A statistical sample needs a fair amount of data before it can be considered accurately. Translation: When you don’t play many games, you get some weird results at the start of the year. I’m a big Law of Averages guy. Two minutes into an NBA game, I’m fond [...]
Vin Scully. No color analyst. Thank God for the MLB Extra Innings package. I tuned in as I was beginning to type up these rankings. I just wanted to hear Scully call the game. When I was in Duluth, Minn., I would tune in to hear Bob Uecker do a Brewers game, but only if [...]
I am the one writer here who does not *love* The Wire. Does that make me a bad person? I don’t care what you think. The West Wing all the way, baby. Aaron Sorkin could write a mediocre sitcom about late-night TV and I woul … oh. Uh. Well, my love of The West Wing [...]
I used to work at a newspaper that didn’t have a major league team, but it was a pretty big metro area, with a hub airport and the whole shooting match. It was hell. Everybody wanted to talk college sports; I might have been the only person in the metro with the MLB package. In [...]
What can we learn from spring training standings? Only that the word meaningless has two alternate names, Grapefruit and Cactus. But let’s pretend they mean a tiny bit of something. The standings certainly pass a sniff test. Pittsburgh is near the bottom of the Grapefruit and Florida *is* the bottom, so there’s that. Philadelphia’s near [...]