I Am Less
Dinner and drinks with friends at Twins tonight. I needed a belt after the day I had. My life isn't so hard but this is my little diary and it is better to bitch about things in here than subject people around me to listen as I drone on about petty problems.
Alex and I started working on baseball math tonight. We began with batting average then slugging percentage and why slugging percentage is a bit more descriptive than batting average, even though the old slugging percentage didn't include walks. The boy wants to use these new tools to calculate Babe Ruth's slugging percentage from 1920, his first year with the Yankees.
He loves Babe Ruth. My dad never saw the Babe play, I never saw the Babe play, certainly the boy never saw him play. But the Babe captures his imagine the way no other athlete, besides maybe Ali has. The NFL, as popular as it is will never have anything like Babe Ruth or the Yankees and their legends. Most folks are probably glad that's the case. I am not folks. My opinion is probably worth less, but what care I?
Alex and I started working on baseball math tonight. We began with batting average then slugging percentage and why slugging percentage is a bit more descriptive than batting average, even though the old slugging percentage didn't include walks. The boy wants to use these new tools to calculate Babe Ruth's slugging percentage from 1920, his first year with the Yankees.
He loves Babe Ruth. My dad never saw the Babe play, I never saw the Babe play, certainly the boy never saw him play. But the Babe captures his imagine the way no other athlete, besides maybe Ali has. The NFL, as popular as it is will never have anything like Babe Ruth or the Yankees and their legends. Most folks are probably glad that's the case. I am not folks. My opinion is probably worth less, but what care I?
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