We’ve earned TV treating us like idiots.  This is the nation that gets emotionally invested enough to call a hotline to determine whether Pamela Anderson or Evan Lysacek is the better dancer.

So I’m not surprised, as we start the 2010 baseball season, that broadcasts still feature outdated statistics.  You know what I mean.  A guy steps up to the plate and up pop “batting average” and “RBI.”  Serious baseball analysts prefer new-age baseball stats, called “sabermetrics” because that sounds more official than “tenth-grade algebra.” Read the rest of this entry »