If you just take his numbers with the Mariners Griffey homered 5.9% of PA, MLB average was 2.4%. Diving these gives you 2.46. Which would move him to 18th (right now he is 37th) right ahead of Reggie Jackson Read more

That is a good point to Ortiz specifically. And for some others as well. Read more

This is my second article somewhat focusing on Ortiz in the last few days. Maybe Boston-Click-Troll is coming anyhow. Yaz would have helped though. Missed opportunity indeed. Read more

I assure you this is not sponsored content from Kellogg's. Because if I did PR for a Fortune 500 company I'd get paid more. Read more

Looking at insults toward Americans would be interesting. If you see it tracked somewhere, please share. Read more

It's a bit of an exaggeration. Pry more like 3-4 days. Still enough time to adjust though. Also, given that home stretches can be a longer (and be an actual week or more) they should be up and well-adjusted while everyone else struggles with the daytime Chicago games. If this whole idea had an impact that is. Read more

White Sox fans aren't the same. They are much more sensitive to winning than the Cubs. If the White Sox suck, their attendance drops a lot. Read more

I do work half nights and half day shifts. I wrote this at 2 am last night. But maybe I'd be more productive if uniform. Not sure though. Read more

You could be on to something. I don't remember if the correlation was with previous year or current year. I just have notes on the book, but don't own it. Read more

That's interesting. But their payroll is among the bottom of MLB despite being the 4th most valuable franchise. Offer guys Miggy more $$$ and I doubt they'll give a fuck what time the games are played. Read more

It is in the book. I wasn't making that up. But I don't know where to get that data other than getting the book. However, why buy the book when you can just get it from a library? Read more

In Scorecasting, the authors found attendance at Wrigley was least sensitive to performance in all of baseball. Their sensitivity of attendance per game to winning percentage was 0.6 (with 1 being the avg). Read more

We're having the discussion right now. He says they are shitty with shitty players and not-shitty when they have not-shitty players. And I agree. A false debate will not take place however for lack of a Stephen A. Read more

Football teams play one game. Baseball teams can go to a city for a whole damn week. How many days do you need to adjust? Also the sport is less physically demanding than football, so I wouldn't compare the two. And again, if the Cubs routine is so much different, then when teams come to visit them at Wrigley, the… Read more

GREAT book. I mean, considering my job is to write stories involving stats and sports in science, I'd feel like I'm in the wrong business if I didn't enjoy that book. It's pretty much Freakonomics+sports. It is for sure one of my favorite sports books. Loved the chapter they did on the Dallas Cowboys and the draft… Read more

That's a hell of a theory Marchman. Too bad Baseball Tonight won't hold a discussion on the topic unless it gets said by a MLB all star. Read more

God knows the Chicago heat has got to be unbearable for Latin American players Read more

There is a fantastic chapter in Scorecasting about this. I'd recommend it. Big argument they have is fans incentivize them to suck. Because they fill the stadium regardless of how the team does and their WGN contract at the time was pretty lucrative. Another thing they showed was Cubs attendance was more sensitive to… Read more

I agree with shitty ownership. But it isn't "luck" when you are consistently in the bottom of your division and usually fail to make the playoffs where you play 162 games every year. This isn't football, where one game screws your season. There's nothing lucky about how shitty the Cubs are. Read more

Teams in similar positions jump about 1.5 points or so where Cavs are headed next. Defense could be a concern. But these aren't Lebron type improvements here. With its young talent, it's at least conceivable for a moderate improvement. But perhaps you are right. Guess we'll see. Read more