Bally’s = Bullsh*t
Marty September 19th, 2007
It’s my own stupid fault, and that’s what makes it worse. But it doesn’t alleviate the fact that Bally’s Fitness is a corrupt and evil company hell-bent on abusing its customers. Continue Reading »
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Bunch of Savages in this Town
Marty September 7th, 2007
Strange things are afoot in Haddonfield lately. Starting with the events of earlier this year, and continuing as of late, I’m wondering if it might not be time to move. Continue Reading »
Why the Phillies will NOT go to the playoffs (again)
Marty September 5th, 2007
After seeing the box score of today’s game, I’m done. I’m convinced that the Phillies have no shot of going to the playoffs this year, and the reason is simple. It’s also the same reason it’s been for the last two years: relief pitching.
Below is a chart of the Phillies relievers for their last 5 and 10 appearances. Notice anything? How about only 3 of the 7 having respectable ERAs in their last 5, and NO ONE being under 5.68 over their last ten. How can any team expect to win with numbers like that?
Hell, the team has a combined 9.76 / 9.19 ERA for those same periods (okay, it’s hard to count since they weren’t the same games, but still…). That’s just ridiculous. It’s like saying, “Gee, we have to survive 3 more innings using a reliever - are we up by more than 3 runs, just in case?”
Well, the Flyers start in a month, right?
| Pitcher | ER5 | IP5 | ERA5 | ER10 | IP10 | ERA10 |
| Myers | 5 | 6.1 | 7.38 | 7 | 11.1 | 5.68 |
| Gordon | 5 | 4.1 | 10.98 | 11 | 7.2 | 13.75 |
| Alfonseca | 7 | 2.1 | 30.00 | 9 | 2.7 | 30.00 |
| Mesa | 11 | 3.3 | 30.00 | 13 | 7.4 | 15.81 |
| Rosario | 7 | 4.4 | 14.32 | 8 | 11.4 | 6.32 |
| Romero | 1 | 2.4 | 3.75 | 3 | 3.8 | 7.11 |
| Castro | 2 | 7.2 | 2.50 | 6 | 9.2 | 5.87 |
| Geary | 2 | 7.3 | 2.47 | 10 | 12.8 | 7.03 |
| TOTALS | 40 | 36.9 | 9.76 | 67 | 65.6 | 9.19 |
On another note
I posted this using the new-ish Adobe Contribute. I made the table in Excel (TONS quicker than HTML), and then simply did an ‘export to blog’. It worked pretty well once I configured it. I might have to consider it for other things in the near future…
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R.I.P. Palmyra Cove
Marty August 13th, 2007
Months ago, my mother-in-law let Shari and I know about something going on at Palmyra Cove Nature Park, one of our favorite places to hike in the area. She said that the Army Corp of Engineers had made plans to start dumping dredge from the Delaware River into the park. Continue Reading »
Dumbass Customer Service, this is Hal…
Marty July 26th, 2007
And people wonder why this country is going to hell in a hand basket. It’s because people are getting dumber, and they’re the ones that we then have to go to when we need help with something outside our own areas of expertise. Sometimes I wonder if a group of trained chimpanzees might not be a better customer service workforce in some cases. Continue Reading »
F*ck you very much, RIAA
Marty June 27th, 2007
In their ever-increasing goal on complete music homogenization and greed, the RIAA-sponsored SoundExchange Royalty Program has strong-armed a new ruling through the United States Copyright Royalty Board that basically starts charging all webcasts of music a fee for doing so, on a per-listener, per-song basis. Continue Reading »
There’s never enough time
Marty June 1st, 2007
Lately, I’ve felt under the gun almost constantly, which is weird because while some of the stuff I’m doing is really important, most of it is stuff that I WANT to do, but can’t seem to get time to accomplish. On my to do list are: Continue Reading »
Tragedy & Controversy
Marty April 17th, 2007
It’s unbelievable. When my wife told me last evening what had happened at Virginia Tech, I was stupefied. 30 dead, 32, 33. And no real answers yet. How did this happen? What happened? I did what thousands around the country did, I’m sure - do I know anyone there? Is there anyone I have to check on? When I got home, we watched as the tragedy’s scope unfolded … and then something else, something darker, started to happen. Continue Reading »
You think you’re married, until you go to the NJ DMV.
Marty March 7th, 2007
Everyone’s heard the jokes about the DMV - the lines, the ’smiley faces’, the bureaucracy. And to be honest, I’ve gone through it all, especially having moved so often between 1994 and 2002. But my wife’s experience over the last 7 days is so ludicrous, that I can’t help but laugh - except not around her because she’s far from laughing about it. Continue Reading »
