Major League Baseball: Lost Importance of Batting Average

Baseball is a sport driven by statistics and numbers of all sorts. It is, unquestionably, the one sport in which numbers drive the fandom. The batting average, while not immune from the forces of change, remains the one consistently understood aspects of the game: how many times on average will a hitter hit safely. It is the essence of the game and an essence we have moved away from with time.

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Increase in Gas Price + Increase in MPG = Direct Cause?

To celebrate "National Bike to Work Day," I thought I would talk cars and gas cost. 


I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon. As the cost of gas increases, my car’s gas mileage has increased. It must be because as it gets more expensive, the gas is getting better…right?

Well, let’s not fall into the correlation as causation trap. The two are related – the price of gas and the gas mileage of my car – but not because the quality has gone up and no because there’s any other sort of direct relationship.

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Sapere Aude: What is this

Good grief, man.  Think a little bit of yourself, do you?  The "Official Site" of Mo Morrissey?  What's the deal with the latin?   And who gives a rats patootie about some fool named Mo.

Dare to know (Sapere Aude) the story behind Mo's Marketplace and the lofty mission statement....and the monkey.

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A Dark Arlen Specter is cast over the NFL

I can't believe we're still talking about this. Week 1 of the NFL season saw Bill Belichick being pulled over by the NFL police because a video assistant was bagged filming from the sidelines against NFL rules. It's been all downhill from there.

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What Is My Most Popular Top 10 List and What Makes it Popular?

"Popular" being a relative term here.  I have 6 articles ranking the work of various musicians: Ronnie James Dio, Anthrax, Motorhead, Sesame Street, Jimmy Buffett and Alice Cooper. None of which I thought would ever really tear up the charts. Put another way, how many people on any given day are looking for someone else’s analysis of what Motorhead song is the deepest in the canon of  Lemmy?   

So, which one has had the most page views?

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Vatican Suggests Extraterrestrials May Exist....

File this one under “The Truth Is Out There.”  The Reverend José Gabriel Funes, the director of the Vatican Observatory, has taken the position that it is possible that there is extraterrestrial life, and possible because of God’s limitless creative freedom.

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Where Has This Old Penny Been?

I’ve come to be in possession of an 1817 Penny.  This penny is about 190 years old. It dates back to the earliest days of the Republic.  What stories could it tell?

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The Commute

Written on my Blackberry, on my way to work....sitting in traffic...and rolling ever so slowly...

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New Home!

The new Blogsite is finally HERE!!

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Spygate: Nothing to see here

The fact that Matt Walsh proved that he really didn't have anything new - much less a Rams walkthrough - won't be enough to stop the ignorant from flapping their gums.  Or clicking their fingers on the keyboard.

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