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Baseball By The Numbers

DoorFrame — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:14:40 +0000

Baseball computers say: Intentional walks cost five runs per year, steals are overrated, and the sacrifice bunt is rarely a good idea (unless you have a good manager).

Two Sumo Matches

DoorFrame — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:09:26 +0000

Japan Pictures

DoorFrame — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:16:30 +0000

My last set of pictures from the big trip is now online. Joining New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Cambodia is Japan. From Japan we have a sumo tournament, a baseball game, the Tsukiji fish market, Hakone, Kamakura, Tokyo and people.

As always, here are a few favorites:

And while the picture is not so amazing, the Tokyo government building did have a sign listing the offices of the Declining Birthrate Countermeasures Division.

Singapore Grand Prix

DoorFrame — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:18:17 +0000

I was in Singapore two weeks ago and saw them preparing for their inner-city Grand Prix. My cab driver, while not an official Grand Prix driver, did his best to simulate one on the early morning city streets. Now The Big Picture has a collection of snazzy images from the racetrack.

Japan, Tokyo, Sumo Tournament (2008)

DoorFrame — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:55:48 +0000

Japan, Yomiuri Giants Baseball Game (2008)

DoorFrame — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:33:37 +0000

Teddy Roosevelt and the Presidents Race

DoorFrame — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:18:48 +0000

The Washington National’s have a daily Presidents Race featuring George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and a hapless Teddy Roosevelt. Poor Teddy Roosevelt has lost every race, over 200 so far, often in surprisings ways. One of my personal favorites was when he was the first to horizontally reach the finish line, but somehow managed to be off by 100 vertical feet. ESPN recently interviewed Teddy Roosevelt about his misfortunes.

Nippon Ham Fighters

DoorFrame — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:39:11 +0000

The Nippon Ham Fighters are my new favorite baseball team. Do you think they fight with ham, or against ham?

Let the ham beware!

Slamball!

DoorFrame — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:30:36 +0000

Someone plays professional slamball! He doesn’t sound like a great guy… but slamball! Via jbg.

Scalia Ponders, What Is Golf?

DoorFrame — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:52:12 +0000

Because Troeltsch got me thinking about Scalia’s writing style, here’s a favorite bit from his dissent in PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin:

It has been rendered the solemn duty of the Supreme Court of the United States…to decide What Is Golf. I am sure that the Framers of the Constitution, aware of the 1457 edict of King James II of Scotland prohibiting golf because it interfered with the practice of archery, fully expected that sooner or later the paths of golf and government, the law and the links, would once again cross, and that the judges of this august Court would some day have to wrestle with that age-old jurisprudential question, for which their years of study in the law have so well prepared them: Is someone riding around a golf course from shot to shot really a golfer? The answer, we learn, is yes. The Court ultimately concludes, and it will henceforth be the Law of the Land, that walking is not a “fundamental” aspect of golf.