So anyways thought I'd just update and say what's up. Not much is really going on around here. Just kinda chilling out. My first two classes were canceled so I'm at home just being a lazy ass. I'm trying to figure out how I do an annotated bibliography for my final paper except for the fact that it's a dialogue that I'm writing myself (the bibliography is if I chose the research paper option which I didn't). He said he wanted something. I guess maybe in a sense he wants like how I came up with the idea. I'm gonna just go with that.

So anyways, Thanksgiving is coming up and everybody has a case of the lazies. Tomorrow is gonna be even worse. I have a quiz in my later classes but he drops the two lowest grades so I could miss that class and take a zero to have it dropped but mehh may as well show up, right? I mean all we're doing is going in, taking the quiz, and getting the heck out of there. I have to go to my first class because my teacher will be pissed if nobody shows up. So anyways that's all I got at the moment.

Also, I'm happy to see that the writers got the awards right this season for the most part.

I've been so totally out of it lately. Sorry about that folks. But as for what's new? School is school, we named the puppy Kelda and she is made of adorable, video games are still awesome, and I have videos posted up on Blip TV of myself making an ass of myself...with saxy_clarinet being the "translator for the crazy impaired". So yeah. Stuff is good. I'll do this meme now.

( Baaaaaseball! )

This is what happens when you are bored at 2am and you can't sleep. I began to wonder one night "Who exactly ARE the best players of this past decade?" and I thought of ways to measure it. There's VORP but while VORP is great, you cannot help but wonder if there's other ways as well. You wanna make it even handed after all. So then I got to work looking for stats. So I looked up 3 different stats -- at least for this pitcher version I used SNLVAR (Support Neutral Lineup-Adjusted Valued Above Replacement), VORP (Value Over Replacement Player), and WPA (Win Probability Added). So each year, I tallied the top 10, came up with a points system and through that ranked the top 10 accordingly. I did this for all 10 years and then I gathered those results and tallied all the pointage and came up with a Top 10. I had some ties but I used certain sort of head-to-head rankings in a way as in (did X outrank Y more than once?) and then did so accordingly. This caused one pitcher to be pushed out of the top 10...the other only because of number of years. Anybody from two seasons and up counted in this. May not be the best measure because 1/5 of the decade may not be enough to prove anything, but hey this is my list dammit.

So anyways I'll give you the information of the top 10 of each year and my definitive Top 10 accordingly.

( Number Crunching )

So tallying this all together, this is how my Top 10 turned out --

OVERALL
1) Randy Johnson
2) Johan Santana
3) Pedro Martinez
4) Roy Halladay
5) Curt Schilling
6) Tim Lincecum
7) Chris Carpenter
8) Brandon Webb
9) Tim Hudson
10) Mike Mussina

Honorable Mentions
*Jason Schmidt
*Roy Oswalt

I was really torn on the Oswalt v. Mussina situation. I gave the edge to Mussina because his rankings overall were better than Oswalt's (Oswalt had a couple lower rankings with one high one while Mussina kinda had a happy medium)

Another fun fact was that 2000 was the easiest year to calculate bar none because the top 4 was the same across the three different systems. The Lincecum one is kinda sticking out like a sore thumb and I'm kinda torn concerning that one. But I'll let it stand for now.

Hey all. Thought I'd play catch up. I started posting again at a board I hadn't been posting in regularly in ages and thorugh that I realized "Shit I've been awful with my LJ lately" and now I have posted. School is good, could definitely be doing better especially since there was a quiz that was online during the one week we didn't meet and I had forgotten all about it (wasn't worth much of a grade and the lowest grade gets dropped anyway). Also it could help that I arrive on time more but I've been REALLY good with that lately. Basically I have a few people I talk to in classes and they're all boys. One is my friend Joe's best friend Jay. Good kid, I don't think he's my type. That's the Marlins/Red Sox fan. Then there's Barry who I worked with on a project. Good kid, doesn't really have a baseball fandom. He likes to root for the underdogs. Though I wouldn't be surprised if he's a Royals fan and is trying to hide it because they suck save for Greinke. Then there's Darryl who is a Red Sox/Dodgers fan. So yeah, I have male versions of blindingvoip and saxy_clarinet as dudes I talk to.

Anyways onto other things, so five years ago, the Red Sox did the impossible and came back against the Yankees in a 3-0 deficit. Only team to do so in baseball. I still remember just how drained but pumped I was...it took me a long while to REALLY celebrate it. I was so friggin tapped after the World Series that it took me a week to be like "ZOMG THEY WON IMMA JUMP AROUND LIKE A CRAZYPERSON!" True story, btw. Meanwhile the Dodgers and Phillies are in the NLCS and whoever comes out of that, I'm rooting for them. The ALCS is like "Do you want fire or brimstone?" or something liek that. So yeah. That's all I got right now.

So this is what saxy_clarinet and I did tonight --

DISCLAIMER: I do not condone anybody perishing by arson-related instances. It is more of an expression of "Eff you!" more than anything else. And yes, I know it's sloppily made but damn if it doesn't taste good (however, just so you know, the letters taste like ass). I also did some video of it (and some video of me dancing to "The Safety Dance" but that's a whole other story)

Anyways here's the linkage if twitpics will start working. So yeah.

Anyways today I had a weird mindfuck. ESPN's Body Issue comes out in the mail. My brother is home adn when I head in he's like "OMG CHECK THIS OUT!!" turns out, this girl I went to high school with (and also CCD aka church school in case you want extra lulz in your lulz!souffle) is in it...nekkid. She's a pro golfer (for those w/ the issue, she's the one in the golf cart). So yeah I saw that and couldn't stop laughing (well that and Zdeno Chara which put me over the top). I just found it really odd. I mean out of all the damn RI natives who went to school here that could possibly have made it, it's the one from my town! But I'm happy for her doing well. She's always been nice to me even if her best friend was a huge fucking snob to me. And their other friend had an irrational hatred of me for no apparent reason.

So in conclusion, that's all I got.

This upcoming ALCS sucks. Hopefully the NLCS will be better. Mehh whatever. My parents are in Vegas for a few days, so that's happening. Nothing else is really going on. Today is Columbus Day for us US peeps. Happy Thanksgiving to you Canadians btw :) Hopefully its' a good one. I'm just living it up as much as I can. Made linguica and eggs. Mehh didn't turn out that well but it was okay. Anyways, the baseball season for the Red Sox is over. Kinda sucks but mehh. Shit happens.

I wish I had more to say but I got nothing. I am getting my camcorder on Wednesday so we may have a hate cake video! Well supposedly Wednesday. Of course the key I think for me is to get home ASAP on Wednesday due to camcorder ish. So I may just head up for one class and head home....maybe.

So in conclusion, my life is boring. That is all.