What Happens When Mean Boys Take Over a Blog Site
It’s a tough world out there. And blogging is no exception. Recently a bunch of readers attempted to coerce me from posting to a site called The Good Phight on SB Nation . For your convenience you can click on those words and it’ll take you there. Isn’t technology great? Basically their beef is that they only want to read news from statisticians and don’t want to be bothered with any opinion on the game outside of graphs that post the Phillies performance on an X/Y axis or ideas aside from numbers that affect a player’s BABIP. A BABIP? Can I calculate that on a slide rule or should I fetch a pipette? Trust me, I get the BABIP. It’s the batting average of balls hit into play and is a method of determining a player’s future value in fantasy baseball. But there’s not a stat in the world that’ll tell you why the Phil’s ruled in come-from-behind wins early in the season and now can’t post one to save their skin. Or when Jimmy Rollins will get his groove back, or what identity Brett Myers wi...