Stoopid Sports Math

So I'm listening to As It Happens Monday and they interview a woman on Canada's women's soccer team, which has made it into the quaterfinals of the world's cup (something even the Canadian men's team has never done). And they ask her about how they will fare in their next match against China. And she responds by saying, "Well there's a possibility that we could win... but there's also a possibility that we could lose."

Uh... right. Kind of got all the angles covered there, don't we? Well, since we're dealing with a stupid fake sport I suppose you could tie (real sports do not allow for ties), but then again I don't think ties are allowed in the world cup.

So yeah. Brilliant, in-depth analysis there.

Today as I was driving to Safeway to get dinner I was listening to one of the baseball playoff games. Atlanta had a 1 to 0 lead if I remember correctly. But as one of the announcers astutely pointed out, "In the playoffs 1 run can be a lot of runs."

Um... how many can it possibly be? 2 runs? 3 runs? Because by my math, the other team only has to score 1 run to tie the game... so that's not "a lot of runs" at all, is it? In fact, if it were any less runs it would be zero.

This is your brain. This is your brain on sports...

( Whatever. )