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...seemed like he’d only talk on two occasions—when he was making some sarcastic remark or when he was mad at himself,” Richardson says. “Whatever he said must’ve been funny. His teammates thought he was hilarious. But he just didn’t talk—hardly called for the ball or anything. He led by example...
...With mad-scientist intensity, he deluges me with data and baffles me with charts for hours. His hypothesis is that the Buddhist Lent full moon coincides with the period when the earth is passing closest to the sun. The sun's pull of gravity, he says, combined with a higher degree of UV radiation increases the concentration and volatility of oxygen at ground level that could cause existing methane escaping from the riverbed to spontaneously ignite. "In fact, it's not only one night per year," he insists. "The fireballs occur over several nights in October, and again...
...Just a Mad...
Wouldn’t watching more baseball lead to better statistical insight? Maybe, but while most sabermetricians laud modern teams who make decisions based on better statistical information, Morris waxes nostalgic for the days when batting average was still taken seriously. Contemporary baseball makes him, like many other fans, mad. “It’s gotten out of hand,” he gripes. “Salaries have gone up by 100 times and teams are still only winning one-half their games. The really big money and big seats go to corporations, and you get away...
...these people are getting paid off of crime and punishment,” Bonds said. “I’m not mad at them for making money, I’m mad at them for using people to make money—that goes back to slavery...