Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Is the Hall of Fame in trouble? Nahhhhh.
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posted on January 08, 2013 at 01:09 AM by Steve Parris, Je t'aime to bbwaa, hall of fame, media
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Does “true” mean that every voter’s ballot is public? That has never happened, either (although, to the BBWAA’s credit, the organization now encourages voters to publish their ballots).... My membership expired last week. Which is neither here nor there, but it just occurred to me.
Edit: I’ve changed the original submitted title as it is misleading.In the article, Rob Neyer mentions that he BBWAA membership has expired. The submitter of the post took that to mean Neyer had his ...
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1. TomH posted on December 06, 2012 at 11:03 AM # hit 0 | hit 0Intro primey
Related: This is pretty funny
The majority of his page was put together by one user, someone at the IP address 193.251.43.248. That user has made 267 edits, of which 171 were to Cistulli's page or its talk page. This is sort of misleading, because 193.251.43.248 has the habit of making lots of changes in small increments, which is annoying when looking at a history page but which allows us to traces his or her movements with some degree of accuracy. It would appear, for example, that from January 1-2, 2011 (UTC time) our 193.251.43.248 made 34 changes to the page over a period of 8 hours. Previously, on November 25th, 2010, 193.251.43.248 spent 7 hours making changes to the page. Our 193.251.43.248 also spent about 7 hours on the page on December 1.
What's funny is that 193.251.43.248 is an IP address in Paris, which is probably a spoofed address. 11/25/2010 was Thanksgiving in the US, and 7 hours screwing around on Wikipedia makes more sense for an American on a holiday than for a Parisian on a random Thursday. Also, the January 1 or 1-2 edits were either done from about 3 pm to 9:20 pm US East Coast time, or 10 pm to 5:30 am Paris time. Which sounds more likely? Overall, there are tons of edits that look like they're either done at something like 4 or 5 am Paris time, which is a much more reasonable 9 or 10 pm on the East Coast.
Before 193.251.43.248 got involved, the page looked like this.
The Bunn Family.
What is this, I don't even...
215 references about a person/place/thing I have NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE is really impressive.
Longer than Joe's?
I am a historian who specializes in 19th century U.S. history. I had never heard of the family before and after the reading the Wikipedia pages, I still wonder why anyone outside a relative cares.
74 footnotes? David Foster Wallace would approve.
Based on one of his blogs, Cistulli and I likely live in the same neighborhood.
I agree with this opinion and Harvey's contention that Cistulli's a goof, although I don't think either is a bad thing.
I'm guessing a relative wrote a research paper on them, and decided it should be immortalized on wikipedia.
Not only does this needless still exist but yesterday someone fixed a typo on it. And the same guy grammar policed Cistulli's too. Wikipedia editors are a strange lot.
The page starts with details of his early life, since future scholars will undoubtedly wonder to what extent his childhood influenced theories such as "Alf would make a good color-commentator." There's even a picture of his hometown in New Hampshire, like it's the Hemingway House. Is there a sign that says, "Welcome to Concord, Historic Home of Carson Cistulli, Sabermetric Humor Blogger"? Probably not, since he's not even on the Wikipedia list of notable people from the town.
...Yet!
I'm pretty sure he has it wrong, new members are allowed to vote for the annual awards as soon as they gain admittance. I'm pretty sure Keith Law and Will Carroll were admitted in 2008 and got the right to vote.
"My blog has no nose" could be a good title for a oenophile's blog.
I think GGC is a big fan.
You are correct CFB. It's 10 years of continuous membership before you get to vote for the Hall, but you may be selected to vote in the annual awards as soon as you gain admission to the BBWAA (where, I believe, the org. limits voting to those who are actively covering baseball).
I'm more of a fan of Dayn Perry's insertion of DIck Allen's name into famous works of literature or Alex Remington's stuff, but I rarely read anything outside of BTF these days.
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oh, it's friday...
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