I am now officially a Brown’s fan

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If you go here, you’ll look up 3 hours later wondering where your day went.  You’ve been warned.

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More Corwin

Great post today on BGS about Corwin Brown at the ND coaching clinic over the weekend. Check it out!

Fredo

My boss just came in to my office to ask me some college advice.  He has a 16 year old son who’s in the process of investigating colleges.  He asked me how Boston College compares to Notre Dame saying, “I thought BC was just a school where kids who couldn’t get into Notre Dame went.”  That made me smile, and then I explained the Godfather metaphor.

Fredo worries about getting capped in a lake while Michael contemplates going home to 1970’s Diane Keaton

Al Gore can kiss my nugget pouch

It’s April 16th and snowy in Philadelphia.  This global warming is killing me.

Al Gore may have invented the internet, but he doesn’t know jack about the environment

This is pretty funny…

Go here to read how to get to Madrid from Philadelphia

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Betting update

Yesterday was a much better day on the betting front, where I earned a return of about 25%. Unfortunately, I’m still down about 32% from where I was before Tuesday’s debacle. My biggest win of the night was the Mariners over the Red Sox which payed +162. Just an outstanding performance from 21 year old Felix Hernandez, who pitched a no-hitter into the 8th. The expected payout on this bet according to my model was about 2.76%. My actual return on that bet turned out to be 81%. Nice.

Other good bets yesterday included the Padres and Dodgers who both beat their opponents by two runs to pay out +150 and +140, respectively. Also, thanks to a Mike Mussina pulled hammy, the Twins beating the Yankees paid me +143.

Like Mike McD turning his Jeep around for Worm, I had to get back on the horse yesterday.

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MLB stuck it to me yesterday

Yesterday I bet on 7 Major League Baseball games.  One of the bets I always make is that the favored team will win by greater than 1 run.  According to my calculations, over the past 20 seasons a home team will win a game by exactly 1 run roughly 15.46% of the time (i.e., given all the games played by all the teams in a season, exactly 15.46% of those will be a home win by 1 run).  Away teams will win by exactly one run about 9.8% of the time.

For me, the one thing you don’t want to have happen is for the home (or favored) team to win by exactly one run.  Yesterday, that happened in 3 out of the 7 games I bet (thanks a lot, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, and Indians).  That’s bogus, as it means I lose on both sides of my bet (I bet the favored team to win by 2 and the underdog to win straight up, thereby hedging a bit).  According to the binomial probability function, the chances of this happening are only about 6.61%.  This ended up losing me about 42.5% of my total bet–not a good return on “investment”.

Yesterday was not my lucky day.

No one was chomping on Oreos for me yesterday.

Baseball in Cleveland

The Tribe started off their season by taking two out of three games from the hated White Sox, then went home for a series against the Mariners this past weekend and didn’t play one game.  Snow hit Cleveland hard, as it has a tendency to do.  Today’s forecast calls for rain and temperatures in the 40’s, so MLB in all its wisdom has decided to move the Indians’ home games to Milwaukee.

Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?  It’s craziness.  Sure teams have been forced to play elsewhere due to extenuating circumstances (e.g., the Saints after Katrina, the Expos because Canadians hate baseball), but I can’t recall a team moving just because the weather stunk for 6 consecutive days.

Seen on ESPN.com

“Here, pull my finger.  I dare you.” - Molder of men, Ty Willingham

Easter Fun

We spent Easter at Kel’s grandparents’ house this year.  This is a picture of her 3 year old cousin right after I asked, “Hey, Kate, how much of that cake can you cram in your mouth at once?”

Seen on Ballhype…

This one is especially for the Heffernans.  I think this clip could be a harbinger for the Reds’ season this year:

Look at the look on Eric Davis’ face.  That is priceless!

Ballhype is a cool site

Attention sports fans: check out Ballhype.  It’s a Web 2.0 sports site that I’ve been playing around with this morning that is actually very cool (thanks as always to Techcrunch for linking to it).  You can join and set preferences for what you’re interested in.  Then you read through sports news stories and interesting links float to the top based on voting (think digg for sports). 

For example, I’ve set my favorite teams to “Notre Dame” and “Cleveland Indians“.  I also added “Charlie Weis” as one of my favorite coaches.  That way I can just view stories relating to those teams.  If you’re interested in a sports as a whole, you can view stories about the NFL, NHL, or whatever as well.

It’s a pretty cool site that I recommend checking out if you’re at all into sports.

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Newbie Guide to Flickr

Still unsure of exactly how to use Flickr?  Check out Webware’s “Newbie’s Guide to Flickr” for the basics.

Last night I thought I was going to kill a baby

Last night as I was driving home from work, I approached an overpass over the highway.  When I was pretty far back, I noticed a couple of guys walking across the bridge with a small baby.  They stopped right on top of where my car was going to drive past and lifted the baby up onto the ledge of the bridge, dangling its feet over the side.  At first, I thought for sure the guy was going to drop that baby down onto the road and let me run over it.  I’m not kidding.  This is what I thought.  My heart literally jumped out of my chest, and I prepared to swerve to the left, but luckily I didn’t have to.

He was just pulling a Michael Jackson and giving his baby a better view of the pavement below.  Nice father.