Who keeps score, anyway? That involves counting.
Falling behind on my ranting.
Saw on a newspaper the other day that the Red Sox had won 2 World Series in the last four years.
I think this is why I don't like sports.
Liking something generally means having things to talk about to all the rest of the people who like the same things. These 'things in common', if you will.
And if sports fans fall for this kind of lying with statistics, then I can't abide even bumping into them on the street, for fear of contagions.
Although they tend to not be a very bright bunch, so they probably have lots of magnetic bracelets and things that keep them free of germs.
I digress.
Boston has won 2 series (yes, that is plural of series. Look it up) in the last 4 years.
They've also won 2 in the last 5, as they have in the last 6, as they have in the last, like, 80 or something.
Trend analysis is very misunderstood. See all the hype on global warming.
When you hear on the TV that a certain sports team has won 5 of their last 8 games, that automatically means that the ninth game ago was obviously a loss, but they don't want to say 5 for 9, when they can say 5 for 8.
And if they had won the game before that, the 10th, they would be 6 for 10, which I'm not sure if I would prefer hearing over 5 for 8, but I take the fact that they don't say that to mean that any team that has an impressive momentary record of 5 for 8 actually has a 50% average of 5 for 10, and perhaps even worse, over the grandscheme.
People have short attention spans, and like being lied to, though.
Whenever I hear any number for any slightly greater number, it just makes me think of the people who say humans only use 10% of their brains.
Formerly, my reply was that the only people who only used 10% of their brains were the idiots spreading that stupid myth, but I think I might have found a category.
Sportsfans.
I've declared war on sports fans, among all the other people who fall under the umbrella descriptor of 'Stupid'.
Thus begins a long spiteful relationship. I just wish we had more 'things in common'.
Saw on a newspaper the other day that the Red Sox had won 2 World Series in the last four years.
I think this is why I don't like sports.
Liking something generally means having things to talk about to all the rest of the people who like the same things. These 'things in common', if you will.
And if sports fans fall for this kind of lying with statistics, then I can't abide even bumping into them on the street, for fear of contagions.
Although they tend to not be a very bright bunch, so they probably have lots of magnetic bracelets and things that keep them free of germs.
I digress.
Boston has won 2 series (yes, that is plural of series. Look it up) in the last 4 years.
They've also won 2 in the last 5, as they have in the last 6, as they have in the last, like, 80 or something.
Trend analysis is very misunderstood. See all the hype on global warming.
When you hear on the TV that a certain sports team has won 5 of their last 8 games, that automatically means that the ninth game ago was obviously a loss, but they don't want to say 5 for 9, when they can say 5 for 8.
And if they had won the game before that, the 10th, they would be 6 for 10, which I'm not sure if I would prefer hearing over 5 for 8, but I take the fact that they don't say that to mean that any team that has an impressive momentary record of 5 for 8 actually has a 50% average of 5 for 10, and perhaps even worse, over the grandscheme.
People have short attention spans, and like being lied to, though.
Whenever I hear any number for any slightly greater number, it just makes me think of the people who say humans only use 10% of their brains.
Formerly, my reply was that the only people who only used 10% of their brains were the idiots spreading that stupid myth, but I think I might have found a category.
Sportsfans.
I've declared war on sports fans, among all the other people who fall under the umbrella descriptor of 'Stupid'.
Thus begins a long spiteful relationship. I just wish we had more 'things in common'.