Sunday, May 14, 2006

Baseball -- The Numbers Game?

Just read the following quote in the NY Times Sports Section:

Jeter makes that play 10 of 10 times, usually.
--Kyle Farnsworth

This brings to mind the old chestnut, attributed to many coaches and managers:

Baseball is 50% pitching, 50% hitting, and 50% defense.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good pitching will always beat good hitting -- and vice versa. Yogi Berra

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bjkeefe said...

LOL @ TC!

I knew the wisdom of Yogi was coming.

bjkeefe said...

From King Kaufman's column of 5/15/2006, which is mostly a diss of Isiah Thomas but partly a rant about useless stats:

"Incidentally, the White Sox also turned a triple play Sunday, tying the major league record for most triple plays in an inning."

bjkeefe said...

Evidently, physicists, or more precisely, the innumerate science writers covering physicists, can play this game, too.

From the NY Times:

"However, the pulses were in a shape known as Gaussian, which is, in principle, infinite in width, though in practice not quite that wide."

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