I didn't know who Don Carman was until I watched an old Baseball Blooper video, which didn't just include bloopers, but all sorts of baseball stats that I treasure like any old other set of statistics. On the field, he was known for his microscopic batting average, beginning his career 0-fer 48, until this game ( Read more... )

As verbophage refers to them, "showcase games" are #3474 and #3476, in case you don't want to go through them all.

I also forgot to note that KYTED* is not a word.

Game 3462 vs. Wallace Schultz
Game 3463 vs. Andrew Friedman
Game 3464 vs. Karl Higby
Game 3465 vs. Will Anderson
Game 3466 vs. robinpd
Game 3467 vs. John Scalzo
Game 3468 vs. key_lime_guy
Game 3469 vs. Scott ( Read more... )

The good: Game #3449 ( Read more... )

I somehow managed to play nobody seeded higher than 7th last weekend, which wouldn't shock me if it were a first. Still, there were some entertaining games, especially the best of three against Alyssa. What better to do on a rainy weekend?

Game 3424 vs. Lisa Slankard
Game 3425 vs. melismatic1
Game 3426 vs. Jeff Fiszbein
Game 3427 vs. Thomas Reinke
Game ( Read more... )

It took me more than a week to finally get my games from the BAT online, hence the desperate attempt at humor in the subject line. Sorry for slowing down at this stuff ( Read more... )

My last four performances at the BAT premier:

2009: 9-6 +346
2010: 9-6 +279
2011: 9-6 +337
2012: 9-6 +284

I finished 4th every time. I guess it could be worse.

I'm developing this tendency to play with idioms. Last month, I titled one of my entries "Pieces and Bits". I wonder if that would sound any less weird if the invention of that word combo was that way instead ( Read more... )

I posted a message to cgp/ospd about a week ago, but I'll post again on here for anyone who missed it or who suddenly decided it was interesting.

I recently received paper copies of some very old rating lists from ragaman, going as far back as 1986. All of the monthly rating lists from February 1999 to present are on the NASPA website, but none from ( Read more... )

The games are all uploaded, but I'll only include the "showcase" games, as verbophage would call it.

Round 3 - I fished for a miraculous bingo, but missed. Still a fun one.

Round 6 - This might be the worst four bingo game of all time.

Round 7 - This might be one of the worst three bingo games of all time.

Round 8 - I finally got to play someone named ( Read more... )

I'm waiting for the official results before uploading my games, so any of you loyal fans (assuming there's more than one of you) will have to wait a bit longer to see them. In the meantime, some random notes from the weekend:

joescrab became the sixth player in history to go 3-0 against me in a tournament. Oddly enough, he still finished out of the ( Read more... )