Once when I was small, I cried so hard after an Oilers playoff elimination that I threw up a bunch and my mom kept me home from school the next day. Somehow this year’s elimination was worse than that. From … Continue reading Meaningful September Baseball
[Author’s note: this piece is best read while listening to this.] Nobody said it could (/should) be done. When I think of all the sports movies that make me cry, they all share the common trait of telling a story … Continue reading I Built a Gritty Costume for Twenty Bucks
The following is either a recap of the Blue Jays extra-innings loss to the Detroit Tigers yesterday or a recap of your own existence. The choice is both yours and meaningless in the end. We started with hope – stupid, … Continue reading Blue Jays Extra-Innings Loss Reflects The Futility Of All Human Existence
In their first meeting, Iceland crushingly defeated Team USA. This was due in large part to the hubris Team USA gained from securing victories over noted hockey powerhouses Team Italy and Team Trinidad and Tobago. Iceland put an end to … Continue reading Recap of the USA/Iceland Final of the Junior Goodwill Games
As a part of my true descent in madness, I’m gonna go a little deeper into quidditch. We’ve already covered how nobody has ever been good at quidditch in the entire history of the sport. In the Harry Potter canon … Continue reading Quidditch Abstract Part II: Kill the Seeker
While the Harry Potter canon does not contain enough quidditch statistics to do any meaningful analytics, there is enough information about how the game is played to highlight some competitive inefficiencies that could be exploited. You might be asking if … Continue reading Quidditch Abstract
