In honor of these excellent displays of precision performance I give you this.http://www.subaru.com/vehicles/brz/index.html I can’t wait to test one.

Yes, I realize posting this means the Yankees will not score for the next week.

And so it begins.

[2] Beat me to it.  I hold you personally responsible, SG. 

Losing is no fun, but it was encouraging to see such a good start from Kuroda.

I guess I should post the starting pitcher stats today.

“Yu Can’t Touch This” says the Daily News. Fine, whatever. But “Yu Da Man” would’ve actually made roughly literal sense.

Seems like the Post back page chose to cover the Mets’ win over Miami with “NO WAY, JOSE”, which I like. Simple. More smirky than cringey and a nice complement to the Reyes sadface photo it ran with.

[4] FUSE’s stats, yeah.

I know whining about umpires is both easy and unproductive, and yet, I can’t resist: a monkey would probably have called balls and strike better than Ted Barrett did last night. It completely ruined the game for me: I spent my time focusing on his blown calls rather than enjoying the pitching duel.

I’m not saying making these calls is easy. I’m saying: if it’s too difficult for humans to make these calls, use technology. A recent study showed that 15% of pitches are misjudged by umpires. Is this acceptable? Especially when these mistakes are known to be biased: it has for instance been shown that an umpire is less likely to call a strike against the home team, especially in crucial situations. How long must we endure this?

[7] No, it is not acceptable.  Eventually, enough fans, MSM, etc will have enough complaints that they’ll try to use something like Pitch-f/x/Questec for calling pitches, maybe in AAA games.  And then eventually it will be in MLB.  There will be a lot of complaining for a year or five, and then everything will settle down and anyone who suggest going back to the “old ways” of humans calling pitches will be shouted down.

How long?  5 years is my best, before they start testing in the minors.

[8] I hope you are right!