I flew to Seattle yesterday to replace some equipment at T-Mobile Park before this game. By the time this game is over, I’m going to have to fly to Seattle to perform an end-of-life replacement on the new equipment I installed yesterday.
I'm on data quality duty for @weatherapplied.com for tonight's game, but the roof is closed, so I theoretically shouldn't have much to do.
But I just got a scare because they just showed an old drone shot of an open roof on TV. At least I hope it was an old shot. Don't do that to me, Fox Sports.
Look at literally ANYTHING these days, you'll see this phenomenon I wrote about in that 2016 article. It's since gotten a word for it, "enshittification". Everything sucks now, and it didn't used to. What happened? We're managing things towards our measurements, and not leading people to our goals.
I wrote an article in 2016 about what happens when what you're measuring does not match the thing you're really trying to accomplish. Why everything seems great for a long time, and then suddenly starts going to hell, even though you're not doing anything different:
Loved this. Patrick's last paragraph gets at something I've been poking at in my writing for over two decades now: sports analytics correlates everything with wins, or with money, or with money per win, but in the end, the actual purpose of sport is a set of human emotions.
I came to Seattle this morning. I saw Ichiro. I conquered my mission. Seeing Ichiro was not my mission, but maybe it should have been. Now I’m heading back to the airport on the light rail. Thanks for the lovely day, Pacific Northwest.
I would be curious whether the ineffectiveness of curveballs also holds in domes and in the minor leagues. Curveballs are the pitch I would think would be rendered most negatively affected by 80% of MLB pitches being thrown with tailwinds.
Felt this little aftershock, but it was small enough that I had to go online and check if it was actually an earthquake.
Weird, though, to see these epicenters in Berkeley and know that they are centered on streets I know like College and Ashby and Claremont. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
Bailey's wprhrbiitphr also was a bit unusual in that the wind actually blew it further away from home plate, but still prevented the ball from going over the fence. That can happen when the wind also blows it sideways toward spot where the fence is further from home plate.
We've had two wind-prevented-regular-home-run-but-instead-inside-the-park home runs in one season! The other was Patrick Bailey's walkoff on July 8 in San Francisco.
Can I sue Google for a refund if I book a flight to the wrong city because of their faulty AI search results? (The 2025 Winter Meetings are in Orlando, not Dallas.)
Tuesday gave us the #1 MOST wind-impacted play of the 2025 MLB Season thus far!
On a windy day at Nationals Park, a 24 mph wind knocked Braves Ha-Seong Kim’s hit back a whopping 98 FEET from where it would have landed in calm conditions.
I'm getting cold pitch sales emails written by AI which reference people and concepts that appear on our company website.
First time, I'm maybe impressed they did some homework, but try to fool me twice with AI BS? Book those lazy cheats onto a @jayjaffe.bsky.social rocket trip into the sun.
I just got a professional sales call from someone I've never met on behalf of a company I've never heard of pitching a product that's not relevant to my work...on my personal phone, which is not provided or provisioned by my employer. Makes me want to go live in the woods
Alas, like Bay FC a year ago, the Golden State Valkyries lose a heartbreaking playoff game to end their inaugural season. But it was an admirable effort by a likable team.
