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The following is not mathematically rigorous, since the events of yesterday evening were contingent upon one another in various ways. But just for fun, let’s put all of them together in sequence:
— The Red Sox had just a 0.3 percent chance of failing to make the playoffs on Sept. 3.
— The Rays had just a 0.3 percent chance of coming back after trailing 7-0 with two innings to play.
— The Red Sox had only about a 2 percent chance of losing their game against Baltimore, when the Orioles were down to their last strike.
— The Rays had about a 2 percent chance of winning in the bottom of the 9th, with Johnson also down to his last strike.
Multiply those four probabilities together, and you get a combined probability of about one chance in 278 million of all these events coming together in quite this way.
When confronted with numbers like these, you have to start to ask a few questions, statistical and existential.
”NATE SILVER, The New York Times, “Bill Buckner Strikes Again” (via inothernews)
Wow.
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“It has an acidy substance coming from its mouth.”
“Big Pop-Up”
Neil Diamond waves after singing “Sweet Caroline” in the middle of the eighth inning during the opening game of the baseball season between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankeeson Sunday, April 4, 2010,
woulda been nice to have a brooklyn team but I love my Mets. LETS GO METS!
thx to ppg for the pic
“Yankee RP Chan Ho Park warming up in the Yankee pen. Red Sox bleacher crowd chanting “He’s a Ho”.”
You Do Steroids to A-Rod: Red Sox vs. Yankees - 6/10/09
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Polyhedral ‘Dice Cake’
isn’t there a pitcher on the Red Sox with the same name?
Red Sox players Rocco Baldelli & Mark Kotsay play the tried & true decision making game, Rock/Paper/Scissors, in determining who will play CF in place of injured Jacoby Ellsbury in the 6th inning of today’s game. Baldelli won, scissors cut paper.
Quinnipiac University conducted a baseball fandom survey of Connecticut. The survey is essentially to see which team, the Yankees or the Red Sox, has more fans in the state of Connecticut and where exactly the lines in the sand are drawn. After losing out to the Red Sox in total fans last year for the first time in the surveys history, the Yankees eaked out a 42-38% victory in 2009 despite losing in five of the eight counties.
