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Baseball Movies: Opening Weekends vs RT/IMDB Scores
Rock.
Brandon raised an interesting point about Bloomberg Businessweek's graph of Box Office Opening Grosses for the Baseball movies since the 1980s - namely, "is there an inverse relationship between quality of the movie and opening weekend profits?"
So I looked up the Rotten Tomatoes/ IMDb scores for each movie. I wanted to see if there was a ( Read more... ) -
Roger Ebert
I've struggled for the past four hours on what to write about Roger Ebert's passing.
March 2006 - I met him at the George Eastman House and he signed his book, "I hated, hated, hated, hated thismovie". This was just a few months before he nearly died after surgery ( Read more... ) -
WBER - Best of 2012
Every year, I always try to create a YouTube playlist of the WBER Best of the Year countdown.WBER BEST OF 2012 YOUTUBE PLAYLIST: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ3GqYxO716dYFlKZxGQkvKaFcbNQQo9pRead more... ) -
Optimal WWE PPV Pricing Strategy
Optimal PPV Pricing Strategy has been something I've spent awhile thinking about.
The question I looked at was: "What would happen if WWE were to slash prices on a B-show PPV?"
I started with a list of PPVs between 2001 and 2012 and the estimated worldwide total number of buys (assembled from Dave's 2/14/05 Wrestling Observer which covers 2001-2004 ( Read more... ) -
WWE PPV buys 2004-2011
WWE Worldwide PPVs buys from 2004 to 2011
date event Total
7/27/2003 Vengeance 322
8/24/2003 Summerslam 415
9/21/2003 Unforgiven 280
10/19/2003 No Mercy 240
10/31/2003 Prior Events 285
11/16/2003 Survivor Series 398
12/14/2003 Armageddon 217
1/10/2004 Prior Events 168
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My letter to Esquire re: terrible Nov 2012 issue
I was so disappointed by the most issue of Esquire that I wrote this letter on a rocking plane.
Dear Esquire,
After more than 15 years faithfully reading your magazine, I was dumbstruck by the banality of your latest issue. Mila Kunis looks like a discarded Martian clone of an Olsen twin. The political profiles were gobsmackingly dull, uninspired ( Read more... ) -
My favorite American Dad episodes
Star Trek (1x15)
Spring Break-up(3x16)
The One That Got Away (4x2)
Stan's Night Out (4x20)
Rapture's Delight (5x9)
Cops and Roger (5x14)
Son of Stan (Part 2)(6x2)
Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls (6x3)
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WWF Feuds 1980-2011
In preparation for my book, I was doing a trial run on some stats. One I was looking at was "feuds". Basically, if two people had a match (tag or singles or 4-way or 3-way or whatever) and they weren't on the same "team" (which was basically either team A or team B - so it's not perfect, especially for 3-ways/4-way/multi-tag match/etc.), I ( Read more... ) -
Travel
8/30 - Fly to ROC(k ( Read more... )