Cory Forsyth » sports

Sox in 4

cory — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:42:38 +0000

Nice work. The Red Sox are now 8-0 in World Series games since 2003. I was just reading the wikipedia entry for the Red Sox and noticed than in the past 4 world series, the ultimately victorious teams have won all but 1 of the games. (A 4-game sweep for the Red Sox over the Cardinals in 2004, a 4-game sweep for the White Sox over the Astros in 2005, a 4-1 victory for the Cardinals over the Tigers in 2006, and now another 4-game sweep for the Sox in 2007.)

The wisdom of attaching 4MB video files to chain emails

cory — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:34:48 +0000

There’s a generational gap right around age 45 that divides those who send mass emails out with a link to a video and those who send the video as an attachment. I’ve always considered attaching the video as antiquated practice. Today my dad forwarded me a WMV file that showed a baseball getting hidden in the pocket of an umpire. I wanted to send him back a link to a video of a baseball bat balancing on its end after the batter drops it to run that I had seen on kottke, but YouTube claims that the video has been pulled “due to a copyright claim by MLB Advanced Media.” If that video had been a forwarded attachment, I’d still be able to see it right now!

Of course, the larger question is when will the MLB realize that it shouldn’t be pulling those videos in the first place? A 30-second interesting video like that doesn’t hurt its marketplace position at all; it probably would win over some new viewers who think that baseball is boring.

Well done, Sox

cory — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:53:59 +0000

Deadspin has a nice wrap-up of game 5. I didn’t catch that Danielle Peck, the woman singing the anthem, is Beckett’s ex. That’s pretty shrewd.

I’ve been a Red Sox fan since 2003 when I lived about 20 minutes away from Fenway in Boston. I even spent a day working as a beer pourer at the stadium during the 2003 ALCS against the Yankees.