Farewell to all Stat

The link to Protoball in a SABR email depicts baseball at Allens Pasture, Richmond, 1884.

A deeper view of the pastoral landscape reveals William (Billy) Nash, b. 1865, d. 1929 (cremated), playing '84-'98; managing April 96 - September 96; as ump in '01, ejecting three.

--a large story buried under small facts.

The 2008 Baseball Research Journal features, Clutch Hitting, on the Jamesian Mapping the Fog controversy; no less than four statisticians-cum-authors.

Whether clutch hitting exists or not is fascinating.

-- a story become small buried under large facts.

Then there is Batting Stance Guy, a man of extensive research, yet, the essence of our national past-time, glorious goof, is not lost in calculation.

Laura Linney says she preps hard exploring every angle, then throws it away, to act. It's still there. To stream research alive is at the heart of creativity, despite every story requiring a structual Hitchcockian McGuffin.

C.J.'s story of woe doesn't gain electrical bill assistance at the food pantry this week since he doesn't possess a cut-off notice.

Monthly meetings of a non-profit Board are monopolized by a budget review. This causes the eviction of a family at Christmas for non-payment of rent. It also precedes the sale of the house after the realization there's no way for a finance-driven non-profit to be a landlord.

For the first two weeks confronting a national disaster, when Government is otherwise baffled, stats tell the story. When the iconic Brainiac 5 (Final Crisis 6) proclaims, "I calculate we have exactly 72.4 seconds before time breaks down and this sentence becomes meaningless," it informs those same two weeks, after which, spin overtook the reality of math.

If you pledge the same and your income declines, is the end result a 10% tithe?

Aussie journalist, Richard Flanagan writes, "in the end, politics is not about focus groups and numbers, it is about the power of stories," to which Clive James responds, "though politics is indeed concerned with more than numbers, it can't do without them."

The story powering the Inaugruation is the performance of Pete Seeger knowing this investiture is the culmination of a life's work validating our generation's vision despite decades of factual investigative journalism to the contrary.

Carl Jung points out whenever we encounter an accident that changes our lives, we encounter God.

Buckner encounters Mookie. Mitch encounters Carter. Schultz encounters the Mick.

Sometimes the best you may achieve is via negativa, therefore, A-Rod proves the existence of clutch hitting.