This is the only dark cloud on my sunny Cubby horizon: CALCULATIONS! Baseball has always been a game of stats, and I love analyzing them as well as the next fan. But they're always based on at-bats from games gone by and someone has always done the math for me. Now, as this fantabulous season draws to an end, I am confronted with having to figure out where the Cubs are in the standings vis-a-vis Milwaukee and St. Louis. It's making me crazy! I know I should also be following the Wildcard Race, but I simply can't do that on my own. My old brain would explode!
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Who said math would be involved?
This is the only dark cloud on my sunny Cubby horizon: CALCULATIONS! Baseball has always been a game of stats, and I love analyzing them as well as the next fan. But they're always based on at-bats from games gone by and someone has always done the math for me. Now, as this fantabulous season draws to an end, I am confronted with having to figure out where the Cubs are in the standings vis-a-vis Milwaukee and St. Louis. It's making me crazy! I know I should also be following the Wildcard Race, but I simply can't do that on my own. My old brain would explode!
I am doing the same thing because I like Seattle since the Griffey Jr days and I loathe, loathe loathe the Yankees. I am figuring out how much will be need to keep the bronx bums home
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if you've checked out the score from today's game between my beloved Baltimore Morons - mathematically eliminated from the playoffs by June 15th every year since 1983 - and the Texas Rangers. Texas won, 30-3. That's right. THIRTY to THREE. They were DOWN three runs going into the fourth inning and came back to score THIRTY. That would be THIRTY. Five runs in the fourth, nine in the sixth, ten in the eighth and six in the ninth.
ReplyDeleteTexas scored 30 UNANSWERED RUNS.
You have to work REALLY hard to lose that badly.
The first link on my blogroll is my husband's sports blog. He's a Cubs fan and we live in the heart of Cardinal's turf. Poor dear. If you run into baseball math trouble, feel free to leave him a comment. The man lives and breaths sports. GO CUBS!
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