A harmonic take on Immaculate Grid
Immaculate Grid is a game for baseball trivia weirdos. But what if we made it nerdier?
Category: Sports
Uno-X time trial helmet thing
We break our long, principled, monastic silence (read: laziness) to discuss this fucking thing: This time-trial helmet, the Redeemer2Vi, is made by Sweet Protection, and their own copy takes some pains to obscure how...
Can you leap tall mountains in a single bound?
We consider the use of spacecraft and earth-moving equipment to be fair game in pursuit of sporting glory. But what about 145,000 razor blades?
On the increased drag due to broken Marlin bills
A Marlin jousted with a row boat. Here’s the effect on boat drag!
A trophy without a plaque
The 1981 postseason was a real shitshow, and people knew that at the time.
143 years of screwing up: a historical look at errors in baseball
If you you use the right denominator, you can reduce the history of errors in baseball to two broad trends. Of course, you can fit an elephant with four parameters, so maybe WGAF, right?
…missed it by half a finger.
Have you ever looked at your hands? Like, really looked closely at them when you grab a barbell?
A brief history of contrived records, part 2
Hold my sword. Me and this mustache are going to do something worth writing down. (Olaf Rye, probably)
A brief history of contrived records, Part 1
And even if they say it’s not a world record, I have broken a barrier. Which makes a difference in human life, in a human family. (Eliud Kipchoge)