In my last blog post, I mentioned my wife. Now in this post, she's making another cameo appearance. Besides being my best friend, she also is a big influence on me...more so than she knows. Not too long ago, my wife was perusing my blog and noticed the comments I had written in my profile. There's probably not a lot of you out there that pay much attention to the profile comments, but since she was my wife, she did.
My original profile mentioned that I was a bit of a "stat nerd". Testing the level of my "nerdiness" the wife decided to ask me what was Albert Pujols' batting average. Well...needless to say, she made her point, which was I'm guilty of false advertising. I'm no stat nerd. I don't even qualify as a stat "fan". I just wanted to make myself sound like some baseball expert when, in fact, I couldn't even tell you who won the American League Cy Young award two years ago.
I can tell you this much, though: I do enjoy learning about statistics. Thanks to ESPN's Baseball Today podcast, I have learned about BABIP, WAR, FIP, and many other statistics that have increased my enjoyment of the game. I have a long way to go before I can call myself a "stat nerd", but hopefully I'll get there one day. In the mean time, I can always count on my wife to give me a much needed reality check.
Thanks for setting the record straight, honey.
By the way...I've updated my profile comments.
you can always count on the Mrs to snap you back to reality at any moment....
ReplyDeleteOnly a wife would have called you on something like that. At least your wife knows who Albert Pujols is.
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