Archive for the 'Sports' Category

Baseball pitch infographics

Lokesh Dhakar has illustrated a series of diagrams showing the trajectories of variously-pitched baseballs.
The illustrations are simple and clean, and yet still communicate a large amount of information – movement in three dimensions, ball orientation at pitch point, and speed. (Note the color gradients from yellow to red to indicate different speeds.)
Check it out.

Graph ungoodness

Bonus points to whoever can decipher this chart:

No? Well, it has something to do with a bunch of baseball players whose initials don’t match their names. There’s also some “periods” (which are called “Yr”). We don’t need no stinkin’ Y-axis, because it’s clear that periods are plotted against… uh, “money?” It also looks like someone [...]

Men of the Scarlet and Gray

As you may have surmised by now, theMonkey is a rather large fan of tOSU football Buckeyes. Therefore, it was a great honor to be approached by my friend, el Kaiser, and invited to be a regular writer for his new sports blog.
I present to you: Men of the Scarlet and Gray.

MotSaG is an Ohio-themed [...]

A quiet game

Late summer 1985, and I’ve been told to get to bed. I’m just beginning the seventh grade, and Mom and Dad are enforcing the bedtime rules. Lying in bed, I struggle to fall asleep, even though the room isn’t quite dark yet. I can hear the sounds of a late summer night though my open [...]




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