Mayor Bloomberg and Mr. Met have a great reason to celebrate.
Mayor Bloomberg, Commissioner of Major League Baseball Allan (Bud) H. Selig and New York Mets Chairman and CEO Fred Wilpon today announced that Citi Field will host the 2013 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Read more on nyc.gov.
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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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Arcade Fire, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”
Manny Ramirez Has retired!
- @jimbaumbach, NYNewsday
Based on MLB’s release, I have to assume that Manny failed another drug test. Instead of serving a 100-game ban, he’s retiring. - @BloggingBombers
WUSSES
“I didn’t know March 30th was a holiday but apparently it’s “Keith Hernandez Day.” - Gary Cohen
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‘Baseball’ was an orgy for baseball lovers. And what fun would sports be if there wasn’t something to argue about? Critics and viewers received the series favorably, but the sports media was often suspect. Veteran Philadelphia columnist Bill Conlin called it “Long with the Wind.” On talk radio in New York, Mike and the Mad Dog played Monday morning moviemaker after each episode, harping on errors and pointing out omissions. But nobody was more critical than Keith Olbermann, who amassed a list of mistakes, 160 strong. “Can they suspend your poetic license?” asked Olbermann.
In making The Tenth Inning, a two-part, four-hour follow-up to Baseball covering the last twenty years, Burns’ considerable savvy is on display right away: None other than Olbermann himself is the first talking head featured in the new series. Burns might have bristled at Olbermann’s critique but he was shrewd enough to enlist his former antagonist this time around.
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Tenth Inning lacks artistic punch of original but is still a joy
Continue reading… Alex Belth - SI.com
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Boyfriend Bails as Girlfriend Is Nailed By Baseball, Goes Viral
… Instead of catching the ball or taking the brunt of the hurling object though, the boyfriend (Bo) slid to his right, letting his girlfriend (Sarah) take a direct hit from the foul ball. Since her boyfriend was in the way until the last second, she never saw it coming.
Ouch. If that wasn’t bad enough, it was all caught on tape. Plus, the broadcasters interviewed the clearly embarrassed boyfriend on TV. Oh, and they gave him a nickname we doubt he’ll be shedding anytime soon: “Bo the Bailer.”
One of the most amazing baseball catches ever—from Hiroshima no less, where I once attended a game—will leave you gasping. “Climbing the fence for the ball” taken literally. - Greg Mitchell
“If we view May as the month in which the Mets fortunes turned, June is the month in which they established themselves as a contender for a postseason spot. In other words, it’s the time it which they became legitimate (or, as we prefer, legitiMET).”
- metsblog
thus far this season has been MUCHO FUN. LETS GO METS!!
Rep. Anthony Weiner, sporting a Mets jersey, makes a heck of play here and helps the Democrats beat the Republicans 13-5 at Tuesday’s 49th Annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park.
Weiner also scored the go-ahead run for the Democrats.
Hey NYers, argue all you want about the teams on the field but when it comes to the broadcast booth there is no argument. Period! End of story!
“On A-Rod, if you read Selena Roberts’ book, he was taking (steroids) all through high school, all through the minors and Seattle…”
Ken Burns talking about his new baseball documentary The Tenth Inning
(Burns on WFAN)
Elena Kagan, Players break down Supreme Court nominee’s plate approach
“First of all,” Mets outfielder Jeff Francoeur said, “I’ll say that she’s choked way too far up on the bat. It looks like the lower hand’s kind of too much over, knuckles need alignment. You can tell she’s gripping the bat way too hard. She’s not going to be able to get it there.
“The stance is not very good. Her feet are kind of open here. That’s not going to make for a real good, powerful stance. Smiling at the pitcher is probably not a great idea.
“I do like how the head is turned. Her shoulders are nice. She’s balanced. But it’s not a very strong stance and you can’t smile at the pitcher or you’re gonna get hit. You’re gonna get hit.”
When told that she is a Mets fan, Francoeur shifted his position. “Is she?” he asked. “Well, tell her I like her then. Tell her she’s got a good stance.”
continue reading… nymets.com
I love Glenn Greenwald but dude, she’s a Mets fan. That’s enough for me… Oh wait, Bill O’Reilly is a Mets fan also. Maybe I have to rethink this…
