ridiculous

Well the Cardinals lost a tough one last night. Its sad when you take a 2-0 lead in the first inning and your pitcher fails to throw strikes that aren't right down the middle of the plate. Sigh.

Since they only lost 7-4, however, CNN might just call that a tie. That article from yesterday really baffles the mind. Obama has a lead outside the margin of error, and you call it a dead heat? Other people found this confusing as well, see here and here.

The latter of those two links has become a daily read for me. There's so much garbage written about the presidential horse race, and its "momentum" that it can be difficult to maintain a grip on the mathematical realities of the race. It made perfect sense when I read today that the author also writes for Baseball Prospectus.

And with that, the post comes full circle. Ta-da!