Comments on: The Best Analysis of Fast Five http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2012/01/06/the-best-analysis-of-fast-five/ infrequent blogging from some dude Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: CajoleJuice http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2012/01/06/the-best-analysis-of-fast-five/comment-page-1/#comment-25950 CajoleJuice Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:14:00 +0000 http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=3309#comment-25950 Thanks for that review (and the link to where this quote is from -- I didn't even bother to look). I like the suggestion that Bill James is the real great story in the modern history of baseball statistical analysis. Thanks for that review (and the link to where this quote is from — I didn’t even bother to look).

I like the suggestion that Bill James is the real great story in the modern history of baseball statistical analysis.

]]> By: Michael http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2012/01/06/the-best-analysis-of-fast-five/comment-page-1/#comment-25949 Michael Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:32:00 +0000 http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=3309#comment-25949 The full article is here (http://www.filmquarterly.org/2012/01/fall-and-rise/) if anyone wants to read it. And I thought you might like this review of Moneyball: http://www.cineaste.com/articles/emmoneyballem The full article is here (http://www.filmquarterly.org/2012/01/fall-and-rise/) if anyone wants to read it.

And I thought you might like this review of Moneyball: http://www.cineaste.com/articles/emmoneyballem

]]> By: Zygmunt Zwingli http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/2012/01/06/the-best-analysis-of-fast-five/comment-page-1/#comment-25947 Zygmunt Zwingli Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:16:00 +0000 http://somewhatmanlynerd.com/blog/?p=3309#comment-25947 Fox's Terra Nova is about a colony of humans in a parallel 65 million BC who reside there because unfettered capitalism has destroyed the ecology of our Earth to such an extent that having more than 2 children is a literal crime and prison is virtually a death sentence without access to a breathing apparatus. This colony is not governed by bourgeois democracy, but a paternalistic veteran of imperialist wars in Somalia whose sole purpose in life is to protect this New Earth and its incredible natural resources from the salivating jowls of the dome-dwelling financial oligarchy on our Earth, which requires he participate in a prolonged temporal cold war with their various agents, many of whom are simply desperate people from our own Earth. (e.g. convicts) The means of production on this New Earth are mainly held in common, but private enterprise is tolerated--usually bartering or the odd black marketer--and everyone lives happy, peaceful lives (aside from the man-eating dinosaurs and partisans of plutocracy) with their friends and family, not finding themselves perpetually alienated from their labor. Did I mention this show airs on Fox? Fox’s Terra Nova is about a colony of humans in a parallel 65 million BC who reside there because unfettered capitalism has destroyed the ecology of our Earth to such an extent that having more than 2 children is a literal crime and prison is virtually a death sentence without access to a breathing apparatus.

This colony is not governed by bourgeois democracy, but a paternalistic veteran of imperialist wars in Somalia whose sole purpose in life is to protect this New Earth and its incredible natural resources from the salivating jowls of the dome-dwelling financial oligarchy on our Earth, which requires he participate in a prolonged temporal cold war with their various agents, many of whom are simply desperate people from our own Earth. (e.g. convicts)

The means of production on this New Earth are mainly held in common, but private enterprise is tolerated–usually bartering or the odd black marketer–and everyone lives happy, peaceful lives (aside from the man-eating dinosaurs and partisans of plutocracy) with their friends and family, not finding themselves perpetually alienated from their labor.

Did I mention this show airs on Fox?

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