On the increased drag due to broken Marlin bills
A Marlin jousted with a row boat. Here’s the effect on boat drag!
Category: Sports
A trophy without a plaque
The 1981 postseason was a real shitshow, and people knew that at the time.
143 years of screwing up: a historical look at errors in baseball
If you you use the right denominator, you can reduce the history of errors in baseball to two broad trends. Of course, you can fit an elephant with four parameters, so maybe WGAF, right?
…missed it by half a finger.
Have you ever looked at your hands? Like, really looked closely at them when you grab a barbell?
A brief history of contrived records, part 2
Hold my sword. Me and this mustache are going to do something worth writing down. (Olaf Rye, probably)
A brief history of contrived records, Part 1
And even if they say it’s not a world record, I have broken a barrier. Which makes a difference in human life, in a human family. (Eliud Kipchoge)
Bobby Bonilla: fixed income investor
Should some person have said, “No, paying a 72 year old man over a million dollars to have avoided playing baseball for you is in fact abnormal, and I am going to look into what feature of the Mets financing makes this possible”?
Mat Fraser lifts like a girl
Some very athletic women and men are set to compete at the 2019 CrossFit games in a multi-day, multi-event, international fitness competition. The most fittest of all will lay claim to the enviable title of Fittest on Earth…
