Time magazine r smart

[phanatic]

Check out this retrospective on Barry Bonds.

No way that guy's not juicing - look at those fucking numbers. 25.8 runs per at bat in his rookie season, and nobody picked up on it?

Comments

[perich]

He would regularly hit the ball far enough that it would land in another stadium, then bounce out of there, and so on, producing a chain reaction of ground rule doubles.

[smjayman]

I know nothing about baseball or stats, but what exactly does that mean????

[phanatic]

It's not a baseball stat. What they're trying to say is "At-Bats Per Home Run." What they came up with...isn't even close.

[jonfmorse]

Ah, yes, I remember those glorious days when, led by young Barry, the Pirates would outscore their opposition 125-3 every night.

[cluebyfour]

Clearly, then, he'd stopped juicing by 2001, when he averaged a measly 6.5 "runs per at bat". Do any of the commies at Time actually watch baseball? You'd think so, since Fidel loves it so much.

[morlith]

Barry Bonds oesn't hit home runs. He just looks at a baseball and it runs out of the stadium.

Memo to Time: You're supposedly a news magazine with some semblance of journalistic integrity. That generally includes how statistics work in sports.