Topic
baseball
- Weekend Reading: MiLB, Naming Public Transit, and Soccer Playing Styles
⚾ Mapping the New MiLB Landscape Combining baseball and maps? Sign me up. The MLB has a plan to “improve” the MiLB system costs, standards, compensation, and other things through shuttering 42 ball clubs around the co…
- Weekend Reading: Strasburg Tipping, RapiD, and TikTok Investigation
⚾️ How the Nationals Fixed Stephen Strasburg and Saved Their Season Strasburg tipping his pitches almost ended the Nats’ run: He remembered the game Strasburg pitched in Arizona on August 3. The Diamondbacks pounded S…
- Weekend Reading: Baseball Graphics, the Mind Illuminated, and the Crucial Century
⚾️ How Many Outs? Baseball Graphics Compared Some top-notch baseball geekery, with Jason Snell comparing the graphics overlays from Fox, MLB Network, and ESPN’s telecasts. I’ve thought about this, too, but have to giv…
- Weekend Reading: Kipchoge's 2 Hours, Future Ballparks, and the World in Data
🏃🏾♂️ Eliud Kipchoge Breaks 2-Hour Marathon Barrier An amazing feat: On a misty Saturday morning in Vienna, on a course specially chosen for speed, in an athletic spectacle of historic proportions, Eliud Kipchoge of…
- Weekend Reading: Rays on a Run, Apple's Pivot, and Mapping Grids
⚾️ The Rays are a Surrealist's Delight Love to see the Rays getting some deserved attention in the mainstream sports media. They've put together a great, diverse lineup of consistent hitters that have performed well a…
- Petco Park
We had the chance on Monday night to go to the Padres game with a small group. Whenever the home team of a baseball city is in town, it’s a must-do for me to try and catch a game and check out the scene and the stadiu…
- Weekend Reading: Business Applications, Rays Prospects, and the Florida Panhandle
👨🏽💻 Okta Businesses @ Work 2019 Interesting data here in Okta’s annual report. It’s clear that the way customer’s buy SaaS is very different than the “single-vendor” purchasing preferences from years past. SaaS al…
- The Craft of Baseball
I’m a baseball fan from way back, and grew up as a Braves fan during the early years of their 1990s NL East dominance. As much as I always enjoyed following the sport as a casual fan, I’d never studied the game much,…