I’ve been to Minneapolis once, over Labor Day weekend in 1996. Many of the city buses were carrying an ad that said, simply, “Thanks, Kirby!” It was a couple of months after he’d officially retired.
Month: March 2006
Yes, I know I’m a day late
Brief comedy bit on Tuesday’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”: the Torch of Apathy, passed from a representative of the Winter Olympics to a representative of the World Baseball Classic.
The baseball singularity is here
Ray Kurzweil, in his recent book The Singularity is Near writes about the moment, which he sees just over the horizon, when machines will surpass human abilities and be actual thinking machines (Bob, please help me out with the explanation in comments if I’ve gotten this wrong.).
Well, in baseball terms, the moment of machine superiority may already be here. At a Marlins exhibition game yesterday, the star wasn’t any of the Marlins’ suspect prospects.
It was a pitching machine. That recorded five strikeouts.
Which lead me to think about how a pitching machine should be programmed to pitch to Old Sammy Sosa, pre-batting eye (or New New Sammy, post-batting eye): “Pitch 1: low and away slider. Pitch two:
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low and away slider. Pitch 3: low and away slider. Strikeout!”
Corey Patterson, on the other hand: “Pitch one: throw ball into stands. Pitch two: throw ball into dugout. Pitch threee: roll ball to plate. Strikeout!”
And I think even a robot would take Lefty Gomez’s advice about pitching to Stan Musial: “Make your best pitch and back up third base. That relay might get away and you’ve got another shot at him.”
Opening Day can’t come too soon, if I’m talking about baseball robots.
Negative connotations
Baseball
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blogger Deadspin is giving a goofy preseason look at each team.
One of his points about Jim’s favorite team, the Devil Rays?
“The team is considering changing its name from the ‘Devil Rays,’ saying ‘Devil’ has a negative connotation. Well, only when ‘Rays’ is added.