Terribly sad news for those from SI, Time. Bambi Wulf has passed. https://t.co/X56385i8Pd pic.twitter.com/tL2j6NLFsu — Jeff Pearlman (@jeffpearlman) June 11, 2017 I never met Jane Bachman Wulf, but — like Jeff — she altered my life. When I was 18 years old and felt like every road was a dead end, I sent out a…
Month: June 2017
The Warriors as modern art
This entire NBA season has been modern art. That, I think, is why people have such different and ferocious views about it. Modern art is meant to evoke strong feelings, even if those feelings are sometimes best articulated with: “Come on, that’s not ART. How can you call that art?” The Golden State Warriors are…
Baseball’s balance in math
Earlier today, I wrote a little piece about what I called the balance that baseball is finding with all the strikeouts and all the home runs. I will have an interesting follow (I think) tomorrow as Bill James weighs in. But before doing that, I wanted to share a little cool math from Tom Tango….
The Balance of Baseball
One of the many wonderful things about baseball is that it tends to finds balance. People talk about the beauty of 90 feet between bases — the faster runners get, the stronger arms get and so a ground ball to the shortstop was an out in 1923 and it’s an out today — but really…
Astronomical
A few years ago, I used to play this game called “Civilization.” It was actually called Sid Meier’s Civilization, and I’m aware that it still exists and is undoubtedly better than ever. But I don’t know much about it now. I used to play it a decade or so ago, maybe more. The point was…