It's been a long time since we posted on this thread even though the sprint to the playoffs has commenced.

Olivant, I've been watching the Pirates, who are losing too many close games. With the Phils buried, I'm pulling for the Bucs, but they can't seem to put enough wins together. Yet they are still in the hunt as Atlanta and Milwaukee have struggled.


My son got to watch a couple of Pirate games last month from the general managers box as a guest of the team. My son had done a paper in his statistics class last year dealing with new ways to collect and evaluate data to get a more precise picture of a player's or team's offensive value, it was sent to the Pirate front office, and as a result he was invited with a couple of other students from other colleges, who did projects of interest.

They got to spend an hour with Andrew McCutcheon, who was on the disabled list. He thought McCutcheon was a very nice guy, who knew an awful lot about the general science of statistics.