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user-inactivated  ·  4097 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Hubski Zen Setting: What Can Be Learned?

Hahaha I can't wait.

Baseball is zen but for some rare few of us, the stats are zen too. I've lost hours on baseball-reference.com before. You start in like 1912, maybe with Harry Heilmann or Home Run Baker, and you jump from link to link until you're in 1962 and Stan Musial is about to retire, and then maybe you go back aways, because Musial makes you think of the Gashouse Gang, and soon enough you're comparing Dizzy Dean's stats in 1933 to those of his brother -- and it's 4:23 am -- but you're lost in another corner of Ducky Medwick's career, and maybe that reminds you of the time the commissioner made him leave a game for being too incendiary, and then you're reading about Ford Frick or KM Landis or even Bud Selig -- and boom, you're at the modern-day Yankees comparing Jeter's range to Posada's, or Bernie Williams' arm in 1999 to Ichiro's in 2013.

Stats are zen. OBP. Range factor. AVG w/RISP. UZR, wOBA, RC, OPS. Batting effectiveness with two strikes and a runner on third -- home and away. Stats are zen.

Or maybe flag is crazy.





lil  ·  4097 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My favourite baseball statistic, and perhaps the most zen one is this: Most homers by a Homer. (Homer Bush - 11)