Stoopid Sports Math
Oct. 1st, 2003 01:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2So 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.
Stupid statements and logic flaws amuse me to no end. I spent more time than I care to think about this weekend in Con Ops watching Jared play Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. So explain this to me, because nobody else, not even Jared, could: You take all of Abe's friends and fellow beings (whatever they are), you enslave them in a factory gulag of some sort, you post guards with machine guns all over the place, nasty dog things that will kill you if you so much as blink an eyelid, and all sorts of bombs and nasty traps. And then, just to be safe... you put in machines that dispense grenade bombs for free to whoever wants them.
Only Abe actually uses them, of course. But it does make you wonder who would design a prison factory like that.
People living in Islamic countries are forbidden from eating with their left hand. It is believed to be unclean.
Studies show that lefties are more likely than righties to be blue-eyed.
Left-hander Wally Schiarra was the only astronaut to fly in all three space programs -- Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
When Americans are having a bad day they are sometimes said to have "woken up on the wrong side of the bed." The French, however, have been known to "wake up on the left foot" when grouchy.
But we all know what we think about the French. Actually, I saw a story today about their President saying that he liked Budwiser beer. I guess he worked in an Annheiser-Busch factory at one time? I don't have the story in front of me right now but basically he was trying to say how he doesn't hate all Americans or everything American... but as a non-beer-drinker who nevertheless lives in microbrew country, my first thought was: Are we supposed to be impressed that he likes crappy beer? And I can only imagine how most French men and women feel about such a statement. ^_^
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.
Stupid statements and logic flaws amuse me to no end. I spent more time than I care to think about this weekend in Con Ops watching Jared play Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. So explain this to me, because nobody else, not even Jared, could: You take all of Abe's friends and fellow beings (whatever they are), you enslave them in a factory gulag of some sort, you post guards with machine guns all over the place, nasty dog things that will kill you if you so much as blink an eyelid, and all sorts of bombs and nasty traps. And then, just to be safe... you put in machines that dispense grenade bombs for free to whoever wants them.
Only Abe actually uses them, of course. But it does make you wonder who would design a prison factory like that.
People living in Islamic countries are forbidden from eating with their left hand. It is believed to be unclean.
Studies show that lefties are more likely than righties to be blue-eyed.
Left-hander Wally Schiarra was the only astronaut to fly in all three space programs -- Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
When Americans are having a bad day they are sometimes said to have "woken up on the wrong side of the bed." The French, however, have been known to "wake up on the left foot" when grouchy.
But we all know what we think about the French. Actually, I saw a story today about their President saying that he liked Budwiser beer. I guess he worked in an Annheiser-Busch factory at one time? I don't have the story in front of me right now but basically he was trying to say how he doesn't hate all Americans or everything American... but as a non-beer-drinker who nevertheless lives in microbrew country, my first thought was: Are we supposed to be impressed that he likes crappy beer? And I can only imagine how most French men and women feel about such a statement. ^_^
