BAH! The Maimed Van Doren Effect busted up a lot more pitchers!! Why…why..Gene Brabender was never the same again!
I don’t believe the Alyssa Effect has received sufficient attention by the statistical community. I took a closer look at the data based on dating information provided by this site.
While only 3 of her 26 documented relationships are major league starting pitchers, I think the results are interesting and reasonably predictive in the event she reneges on her 2008 pledge to swear off dating baseball players.
Exhibit A: Carl Pavano (2003)
During their 2003 relationship, Pavano made 33 starts and posting 12 wins with a 4.30 ERA (33/12/4.30). In 2004 after their breakup he improved dramatically to (31/18/3.00). However this euphoria proved short lived, as Yankee fans can attest, and he regressed in 2005 to (17/4/4.77).
Exhibit B: Barry Zito (2004-05)
Zito’s dating numbers averaged (34.5/12.5/4.53), remarkably similar to Pavano’s. After the breakup he also improved in 2006 to (34/16/3.83), nearly as big an improvement as Pavano’s. What happened the year after? You guessed it, regression to (33/11/4.53).
Exhibit C: Brad Penny (2006)
Penny’s dating year of 2006 was also an unspectacular (29/7/3.90). He then experienced what I am now terming the Milano Bounce with a nice (33/16/4.33) and continued this into 2008 with a (33/16/3.03). Because we are not using precise dates on the relationship, the numbers are only estimates but it appears Brad remained mentally strong for a longer period before succumbing to the inevitable Milano Meltdown with a 2009 line of (19/6/6.27).
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1. The elusive Robert Denby Posted: February 25, 2009 at 07:21 PM (#3086082)Of course, putting Glavine with Milano might just give the old guy a heart attack, so maybe that's not a great idea.
RIP, Tony.
And didn't she date Russel Martin? Maybe she just prefers pitchers to catchers.
Geez, 26 documented relationships doesn't cut it? Or do you just want more ballplayers?
Apparently, they were just hanging out.
Tony C? Really?
was this before or after Bo Belinsky?
EDIT: I should make it clear that I meant Belinsky-Van Doren and not Bo-Tony C
My dad got me the autographed copy. The book got stolen along with a bunch of other books I owned when my college co-op was renovated. A first edition of the Lincoln-Douglas Senate debates that I was given by my grandfather was also lost.
That sucked, but it doesn't compare to what Tony C went through.
I guess I'll stop whining about those early nineties hockey cards that got destroyed in the flood...
Dude, once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is a trend. Sounds statistically significant to me.
Rent? I own the special edition.
EDIT: For the record, I did not date Alyssa Milano.
Stain resistant DVD box.
Yes it was. And some SF Chronicle blog took the information from this extraordinarily loosely sourced blog as evidence of Glavine and Milano's past. As far as could be figured at the time, there really was no validity to it.
Special behind the scenes looks at Milano's breasts.
Also, maybe I'm a weirdo but I think I'd pay money to see the Milano Bounce meet The Colbert Bump.
Back in the day, she could really knock your eye out.
(but I spect you already knew that)
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