Kyle Matthew Oliver

Category: Baseball

  • Advice

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    In this week’s video post: brats and beer, baseball, and biblical languages. Two of the three required an umbrella.

  • Kyle Oliver: Bat Wrangler

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    For those of you who don’t know, I now live at a church. An old church. One with bats. I’ve decided the best way to cope with this less-than-ideal aspect of my otherwise wonderful living situation is to have a little fun with it. Watch my Twitter feed (reproduced at right and on my Facebook…

  • Ned Yost Is A Big Honkin’ Doofus

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    What the hell was C.C. doing batting in the eighth (and then pitching a long ninth) with such a huge lead last night? I know we’re probably not going to be able to keep him, but we still gotta get him through hopefully a couple months’ worth of baseball yet. Don’t get me wrong, the…

  • Gainin’ On Ya! All Up Around Your Neck

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    The Cubs are in first place, in case you haven’t heard. The Brewers are in second, “but that’s a temporary condition too”: To each his reachAnd if I don’t cop, it ain’t mine to haveBut I’ll be reachin’ for ya‘Cause I love ya, CC.Right on. Ain’t it funky, Chicago? (Or how about “J.J.? C.C.; C.C.?…

  • RIP HOFG

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    Well, in its 69-year history, the Baseball Hall of Fame Game has been rained out five times. My dad and I have now had tickets to two of those rain outs (including one back in the ’90s when I was a little boy). The “good” news: we won’t miss another. The bad news: that’s because…

  • Triple Take

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    In case you haven’t heard, there was an unassisted triple play in the Cleveland-Toronto game last night. These have always been really, really exciting to me; I remember watching highlights of one when I was a seven-ish-year-old baseball nut living in Bradenton, FL (where the Pirates spring train, incidentally). I have the nagging sense that…

  • Can This Just Be My Career?

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    My baseball partner-in-crime Matt sent me this awesome link to a New York Times story I missed about a month ago. If you want to know how tons of nuclear engineers spend their time, look no further. We run simulations like the one in the article. Except instead of flipping these virtual weighted coins to…

  • Playing Catch (-Up)

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    In honor of yesterday’s beautiful weather and the associated (and long overdue) first game of catch, I checked out a couple of baseball blogs today. Perhaps I’m too much of a Turnbow apologist, but I think this guy is partially misplacing the blame for today’s Brewers loss. I was only listening to it on the…

  • Science News: Patterns

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    All the stories that caught my eye in this week’s Science News digest had to do with violated patterns. (1) I was checking out the videos of the big Intel young scientist competition finalists and was pleased to see a few non-biological scientists getting some recognition. It seems like almost all of the elite young…

  • The Hacker Within: Baseball Edition

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    With a little help from geek and proud, I’m now able to listen to MLB.TV radio broadcast streams on Kermit, the Linux machine I work at. Using the MediaPlayerConnectivity plug-in Alan suggests and choosing Totem as the default player in the configuration wizard seems to do the trick on my system (“i686-redhat-linux-gnu” according to configure).…