Here's how you do it:

OK, first let's establish that the strike zone is not up for review. That would get ridiculous. Also "did he swing or not?" The fuzziness of that stuff is kind of part of baseball tradition anyway. Unless you want to take away the home plate umpire entirely and use a machine? Yeah, I don't think anybody but me would even ( Read more... )

WOO! Great news! The Red Sox One! ... And Tampa Three!

I pulled this on a coworker before noticing he was brandishing scissors. =) Anyway, Tampa earned and deserved this win, although they should have been drinking champagne after Game Five.

Now we have the Phillies and the Rays in the World Series. My questions are these: Will the television ( Read more... )

It’s a beautiful, sunny Saturday. Just now, I was on my balcony hanging out my laundry while a scrimmage or intersquad game was going on the ball diamond across the street. I was watching the action when an S.G. batter batted off a really high foul ball - it cleared the fence and netting (the netting is about four stories tall!) and hit the balcony ( Read more... )

Well, the Red Sox are pummelling the Rockies tonight. I'm rooting for the Rockies - the Sox have had their day, and they don't get sympathy cheering out of me. (I suppose they're the closest MLB team to me geographically, but since I've only visited Boston once, when I was six, they might as well be on Neptune. (But after Hurricane Juan, when we ( Read more... )

I should clean my room out more often. I keep finding cool stuff! Among other things, I've found my old algebraic calculator, a few forgotten story ideas (although many are lame and are going into the recycling bags, but let's not talk about those), a bunch of old cassettes (Police or Huey Lewis and the News, anyone?), and Microsoft's official ( Read more... )

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