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| To a lifelong Yankee fan like me, yesterday brought with it a significant measure of sadness and reflection. The passing of George M. Steinbrenner (and Bob Sheppard two days prior) closes a chapter not only in my life, but also in the lives of countless other members of the Yankees Universe. | Rare is the man who can incite such completely disparate reactions from friends and foes alike. Steinbrenner managed to occupy dual roles as hero and villain, both famously and infamously, all while paradoxically defying convention, predictability and mediocrity. Quite simply, he was The Boss. | |||
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Posts Tagged ‘Baseball’
LESS LOSS. MORE BOSS.
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010by Chairman of the Bored
LESS IDIOCY. MORE LEARNING.
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010by Dimebag Darrell
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| Let’s face it: this country is (sadly) rife with less education and more idiocy. Just last week, the free daily, amNewYork, wrote of how one-quarter of our high school juniors and seniors “misidentified Adolf Hitler.” One of the most vile people this world has known is just another name (or some dude that got screwed over by Microsoft) to one out of every four American 17-year-olds. You might think that “schooled” adults with degrees and mortgages would fare much better, but a recent look at trends on Google showed that searches for “Assburgers Syndrome” peaked a day after Parenthood – a primetime drama with a married couple that has a son with Asperger’s – debuted on NBC. Depressing, isn’t it? | Here at the home office, we’re big baseball fans, and some of us are stats geeks. While such a tidbit may be uninteresting to most, it does serve to prove a point. You see, the objective analysis of baseball through statistical measures, or sabermetrics, isn’t something that is taught in school, or readily learned without some effort. We simply discovered an interest in the subject and “educated” ourselves. What is most disturbing about the average uneducated American is that he or she possesses a complete and utter disinterest in learning something on their own. It seems to us that people look at education not as an exercise in personal enrichment, but rather a chore, or a necessary evil to pass an exam. Sad, but true. | |||
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