Tag: baseball
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Spring Vacation Day Four – Baseball and Hockey
Today was a long day. We got to Phoenix Muni early, almost too early. Parking was open, but the stadium wasn’t, so we went inside the shop to browse around. I bought myself another straw hat, since you can never have too many of them. When we finally got inside, we headed over near the…
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Spring Vacation Day Three – Dodgers at Athletics
Today was the first baseball game of the trip, with the A’s hosting the Dodgers split squad. After allowing the Dodgers to put up four runs in the second, they came back and scored nine in the third. They wanted to coast home, but the Dodgers put up four runs in the ninth to bring…
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Baseball Stats – dollars-per-win
A recent post on the Beyond the Boxscore blog pointed me to another blog entry on Statspeak called Building a sabermatrician’s workbench. And as the web will do, I was in turn pointed to Baseball-Databank.org. I’m not new to MySQL databases or SQL queries, but the existence of a free baseball database was news to me, so…
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Real Opening Day
My wife and I went to the real home opener for the A’s last night and watched what I hope is not an example of the kinds of games we’re going to see all season long. They lost the game 2-1 against the pitching of Daisuke Matsuzaka who was definately on his game. Frustrating rookiee…
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We’ve got SimYard, now we only need SimHotDog and SimBeer.
For the past week I have been addicted to a new online game. It’s a baseball management simulator called SimYard. Like other baseball sims, you pick a team name, logo and colors, and pit your team against others. SimYard has an interesting twist to it. Your team is made up of semi-pro players who you…