Paul Katcher

'\x3cdiv id=\x22tumblr_video_container_47545327137\x22 class=\x22tumblr_video_container\x22 style=\x22width:500px;height:281px;\x22\x3e\x3c/div\x3e\x0a \x3cscript class=\x22inline_embed\x22 type=\x22text/javascript\x22\x3e\x0a (function(){\x0a var iframe_content = new Tumblr.IframeContent;\x0a iframe_content.initialize({\x0a attr : {\x0a \'id\' : \'tumblr_video_iframe_47545327137\',\x0a \'class\' : \'tumblr_video_iframe has_lightbox\',\x0a \'data-origin\' : \'paulkatcher.tumblr.com\',\x0a \'data-width\' : \'500\',\x0a \'data-height\' : \'281\'\x0a },\x0a container : \'tumblr_video_container_47545327137\',\x0a content : \'\\x3clink type=\\x22text/css\\x22 rel=\\x22stylesheet\\x22 media=\\x22screen\\x22 href=\\x22http://assets.tumblr.com/assets/styles/video.css?_v=e5be4782d7425693af9ce9b813bb4896\\x22\\x3e\\x3cscript type=\\x22text/javascript\\x22 src=\\x22http://assets.tumblr.com/assets/scripts/spin.js?_v=67a87cac362ca3f488732b63f11ff124\\x22\\x3e\\x3c/script\\x3e\\x3cscript type=\\x22text/javascript\\x22 src=\\x22http://assets.tumblr.com/assets/scripts/video.js?_v=1c012c9ac9f5f6f6d9c02e4a0ddf11ab\\x22\\x3e\\x3c/script\\x3e\\x3cscript type=\\x22text/javascript\\x22 src=\\x22http://assets.tumblr.com/assets/scripts/vendor/video-js/video.js?_v=4b3c0390787062c5563d8eb7a2f6b8d1\\x22\\x3e\\x3c/script\\x3e\\x0a\\x0a\\x3cmeta name=\\x22tumblr-form-key\\x22 content=\\x22\\x22 id=\\x22tumblr_form_key\\x22 /\\x3e\\x0a\\x0a\\x3cvideo preload=\\x22none\\x22 id=\\x22tumblr_video_player_47545327137\\x22 class=\\x22video-js tvp_video\\x22 width=\\x22500\\x22 height=\\x22281\\x22 poster=\\x22\\x22\\x3e\\x0a \\x3csource src=\\x22http://paulkatcher.tumblr.com/video_file/47545327137/tumblr_mkzvw43XZM1qfgi90\\x22 type=\\x22video/mp4\\x22\\x3e\\x0a \\x3c/video\\x3e\\x0a\\x0a \\x3cdiv class=\\x22tumblr_lightbox_controls\\x22\\x3e\\x0a \\x3cspan class=\\x22post_control close_button\\x22\\x3eClose\\x3c/span\\x3e\\x0a \\x3c/div\\x3e\\x0a\\x0a\\x3cscript type=\\x22text/javascript\\x22 \\x3e\\x0a\\x0a var __ = (function() {\\x0a var translation = {\\x0a \\x22Cancel\\x22 : \\\'Cancel\\\',\\x0a \\x22Email\\x22 : \\\'Email\\\',\\x0a \\x22Send\\x22 : \\\'Send\\\',\\x0a \\x22Play\\x22 : \\\'Play\\\',\\x0a \\x22Pause\\x22 : \\\'Pause\\\',\\x0a \\x22Fullscreen\\x22 : \\\'Fullscreen\\\',\\x0a \\x22Share\\x22 : \\\'Share\\\',\\x0a \\x22Twitter\\x22 : \\\'Twitter\\\',\\x0a \\x22Facebook\\x22 : \\\'Facebook\\\',\\x0a \\x22Copy embed code\\x22 : \\\'Copy embed code\\\',\\x0a \\x22There was an error with this video.\\x22 : \\\'There was an error with this video.\\\' };\\x0a return function(string) {\\x0a return translation[string] || string;\\x0a };\\x0a })();\\x0a\\x0a var tumblr_video = new TumblrVideo;\\x0a\\x0a var load_video = function() {\\x0a tumblr_video.initialize({\\x0a id : \\\'47545327137\\\',\\x0a posters : [\\x22http:\\\\/\\\\/media.tumblr.com\\\\/tumblr_mkzvw43XZM1qfgi90_frame1.jpg\\x22,\\x22http:\\\\/\\\\/media.tumblr.com\\\\/tumblr_mkzvw43XZM1qfgi90_frame2.jpg\\x22,\\x22http:\\\\/\\\\/media.tumblr.com\\\\/tumblr_mkzvw43XZM1qfgi90_frame3.jpg\\x22,\\x22http:\\\\/\\\\/media.tumblr.com\\\\/tumblr_mkzvw43XZM1qfgi90_frame4.jpg\\x22,\\x22http:\\\\/\\\\/media.tumblr.com\\\\/tumblr_mkzvw43XZM1qfgi90_frame5.jpg\\x22],\\x0a retro_static: true,\\x0a duration : \\\'123\\\',\\x0a post_title : \\\'\\\',\\x0a post_url : \\\'http://paulkatcher.tumblr.com/post/47545327137/sportsnetny-worst-strike-three-call-to-end-a\\\',\\x0a video_url : \\\'http://paulkatcher.tumblr.com/video/47545327137\\\',\\x0a dimensions : {\\x22width\\x22:640,\\x22height\\x22:360},\\x0a embed_code : \\\'\\x3ciframe src=\\x22//www.tumblr.com/video/paulkatcher/47545327137/500\\x22 id=\\x22tumblr_video_iframe_47545327137\\x22 class=\\x22tumblr_video_iframe\\x22 width=\\x22500\\x22 height=\\x22281\\x22 style=\\x22display:block;background-color:transparent;overflow:hidden;\\x22 allowTransparency=\\x22true\\x22 frameborder=\\x220\\x22 scrolling=\\x22no\\x22 webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen\\x3e\\x3c/iframe\\x3e\\\',\\x0a\\x0a \\x0a origin_url : \\\'paulkatcher.tumblr.com\\\',\\x0a\\x0a \\x0a thumbnails : {\\x0a url : \\\'http://24.media.tumblr.com/previews/tumblr_mkzvw43XZM1qfgi90_filmstrip.jpg\\\',\\x0a width : \\\'200\\\',\\x0a height : \\\'112\\\',\\x0a total : \\\'10\\\' },\\x0a _autocycle : true, // Auto-cycles through posters, set to false for :hover only\\x0a _sharing : false, // Enables sharing popover menu on hold 8/27/12\\x0a _lightbox : true,\\x0a _dashboard : false,\\x0a _dev : false\\x0a });\\x0a };\\x0a\\x0a load_video();\\x0a\\x3c/script\\x3e\\x0a\',\x0a width : \'500\',\x0a height : \'281\',\x0a body_class : \'tumblr_video_iframe_body\'\x0a });\x0a })();\x0a \x3c/script\x3e'

sportsnetny:

Worst strike three call to end a game in MLB history?

Must’ve been Enrico Palazzo behind the plate.

View Separately

Rays manager Joe Maddon poses in the team’s “fauxback” uniform from 1979, 19 years before the Tampa baseball franchise existed.

The Rays will sports this look on June 30 in a game against the Tigers.

Source: uni-watch.com

The following is not mathematically rigorous, since the events of yesterday evening were contingent upon one another in various ways. But just for fun, let’s put all of them together in sequence:

— The Red Sox had just a 0.3 percent chance of failing to make the playoffs on Sept. 3.

— The Rays had just a 0.3 percent chance of coming back after trailing 7-0 with two innings to play.

— The Red Sox had only about a 2 percent chance of losing their game against Baltimore, when the Orioles were down to their last strike.

— The Rays had about a 2 percent chance of winning in the bottom of the 9th, with Johnson also down to his last strike.

Multiply those four probabilities together, and you get a combined probability of about one chance in 278 million of all these events coming together in quite this way.

When confronted with numbers like these, you have to start to ask a few questions, statistical and existential.

NATE SILVER, The New York Times, “Bill Buckner Strikes Again” (via inothernews)

(via sportspage)

Source: inothernews

At two different points Wednesday night, FanGraphs had the Red Sox with 92.5% probability to win (up 3-2, top ninth, 0 out, 1B and 3B) and the Rays with 99.7% probability to lose (down 7-0, top eighth, 2 out, none on).

Is it too late to get the Red Sox-Orioles score in that ESPN the Magazine that’s dedicated to Boston sports dominance?

Zoom Info

At two different points Wednesday night, FanGraphs had the Red Sox with 92.5% probability to win (up 3-2, top ninth, 0 out, 1B and 3B) and the Rays with 99.7% probability to lose (down 7-0, top eighth, 2 out, none on).

Is it too late to get the Red Sox-Orioles score in that ESPN the Magazine that’s dedicated to Boston sports dominance?

Source: ESPN