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August 09, 2017
SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 08:39 AM on August 09, 2017
fatty beat you to this post by 24 hours. However! It's so good, it's worth watching again. And probably again again.
posted by NoMich at 08:42 AM on August 09, 2017
That makes mine the saddest plate appearance video post of all time?
posted by Mr Bismarck at 09:17 AM on August 09, 2017
I always thought the saddest plate appearances of all time were some of my attempts at batting when I was playing softball.
posted by Howard_T at 12:31 PM on August 09, 2017
RE: the saddest inning in baseball--Good stuff, but am I the only one who questions the validity of his calculations regarding crowd size? He extrapolated the crowd in attendance by using outfield seats as the baseline for every section, resulting in the 1.4% capacity he applied stadium-wide. That skews the numbers downward, in my experience. Had he used the sections behind home plate and around the dugouts, he would likely have skewed the numbers upward. Perhaps there were as many as 600 fans in attendance that fateful day.
posted by tahoemoj at 12:34 PM on August 09, 2017
Billy Hamilton makes a hell of a catch.
posted by grum@work at 03:38 PM on August 09, 2017
Big Bird Introduces Game Six of the 1992 ALCS
posted by tommybiden at 04:32 PM on August 09, 2017
Dallas Stars hockey team becomes first franchise to publicly oppose Texas 'bathroom bill'
posted by tommybiden at 06:12 PM on August 09, 2017