It’s been a baseball weekend. Which helps explain the lack of updates of late. I had today off, which was not officially an Opening Day holiday, but it should have been. Might as well have been. Cesar Chavez is important…
Category: Let’s Go M’s
Uncollected Works
While you’re waiting for the Country Quiz II to be out (maybe tonight?), here are some random assortments to tide you over. And if you’re wondering why there hasn’t been anything big, it’s because the CQII is about to come…
What are the Odds: a statistical analysis of the last post
Okay, so I got to thinking. And I can’t just leave the last post where it ended. You might be wondering, for example, what the statistical probability is of me making the playoffs after switching to an easier difficulty after…
Greatest Comeback Ever? (or: 7-50)
I’m well aware that I haven’t posted in a while, and this isn’t really a “real” post anyway. The holiday season is hitting full stride and people have been crazy at work and at home. It’s a three-day weekend, but…
Getting Through Sunday Somehow
It’s a bit of a cliche in my family (both families, I suppose – that which I share with my parents and that which I share with Emily) that Sunday night is a dreadful time to be conscious. I expect…
5-36
It’s in the game. MVP 2005 is widely recognized by those who are obsessed with baseball video games (most of my friends) as the best baseball video game ever made. The only reason that we have not gone on to…
Assorted Thoughts Before Vermont
All right. Turns out that this whole “keeping posts long and narrative” idea works pretty well, but seems wholly unfitting for times like the morning before I depart on a big trip. I have a long-standing personal tradition of firing…