Maybe the pendulum has swung too far. Data is ruining baseball. Turns out it’s best to only let starting pitchers go five or six innings. And have fielders adjust position based on the batter’s entire history of plate appearances. And since the pitchers are speeding the ball at 100 MPH consistently, the batters are employing […]

https://bit.ly/3oE5r8M I’ve been thinking I was born at the wrong time. Now I’m not so sure. On one hand I was born at exactly the right time, I was 10 when the Beatles broke, I was there for the British Invasion, I saw the whole movie, many of my contemporaries were not, if you were […]

“Oscar Ratings Crash To All-Time Low; Viewership Falls Under 10M For First Time Ever”: https://bit.ly/3eyc9IL This is what happens when you lose touch with your audience. Confronted with a decline in awards show ratings the TV industry has singled out once in a lifetime events as the cause. Nothing could be more untrue. If anything, […]

Why isn’t there a concomitant examination of music? I’m positively stunned at the amount of coverage the Oscars are getting. Especially for a show everyone has agreed no one will see. Bill Maher said it best… “Every year I write down my Oscars predictions. This year I predict I’m not going to watch.” The coverage […]