It's late October, so I just did almost all my live TV watching for the year, between postseason baseball and presidential debates. And since my brain wouldn't shut up about this for over 3 hours, here's some interesting stats from the last 20 World Series, 2001-2020. (If you want to nerd out over more, Wikipedia of course has a list of all the ( Read more... )

Playing The Field Fly Rule can come into effect when someone's got one prospect who's made it to first base, one to second base, and optionally one to third base. If a new prospect wants to get to first base, but lets his balls fly and the judge deems them catchable, he shall declare the current prospect out of consideration; no other prospects ( Read more... )

I just spent several hours condensing several shoeboxes of loose baseball and football cards into a box designed to hold cards safely. Some amusing finds:

• Buster Rhymes rookie card.
• ALF trading cards, including Bouillabaisseball Cards, a joke my mom explained to me but I didn't fully grok. I've still never seen bouillabaisse soup.
• Return of the ( Read more... )

Baseball is a game of inches, and even at a mile above sea level, the inches just didn't go the Rockies' way.

There was plenty of tober but not enough rock.

If your IT infrastructure is unable to handle all sports fans in Denver trying to buy World Series tickets at precisely 10 AM, please consider a different ticket distribution method. May I humbly suggest assigning a lottery number to everyone who visits your site over, say, a twelve hour period. At the end of that period, you can email winners of ( Read more... )

I've been rooting for Cleveland for the last five hours, in large part because I want the Rockies to sweep and face an opponent that played seven games. It's been a pretty exciting game; each team scored more in the first nine than the Rox and Snakes scored together last night. But 7 runs in the top of the 11th? That's entertaining. Maybe we ( Read more... )

If you walk in a run in the 11th inning of the championship series...

... you might be doomed to a sweep.

Who'd have thought that the second ever playoff game at Coors Field would end 2-1, giving the Rockies a sweep?

I of course had the fortune to attend the one game they've lost in the last three weeks. Hopefully that can extend to six.

Sports Center shows all of the day's exciting sports moments in an easy-to-swallow form. This is sort of like a video that compiles orgasm shots from two dozen porno films and shows them back-to-back without much context ( Read more... )

For the first time since I've followed baseball, the St. Louis Cardinals are world champions ( Read more... )