Tigers Minor League Baseball Blog

Hello again and I apologize for my absence over the last few days. It’s getting to that point in the season where a player’s brain begins to go on auto-pilot and you find yourself in some kind of baseball purgatory where days have no names and time seems to repeat itself. For a while there I wasn’t sure if sleep was real and day was night. No worries though I have managed to push my way through the midseason rebooting period, collect all my thoughts and have come back ready and refreshed for the second half. There were some updates I should make everyone aware of, and mainly they occurred in our [fraternity] house. We added some new faces in Lester Oliveros, Brendan Wise, Adrian Casanova, and Michael Bertram. Kentucky now has the lead in the house with a whopping two. However what is interesting to note is that Lester and Brendan are from Venezuela and Australia respectively and Casanova has some latin heritage as well. This is why I say baseball is better than math. With all apologies to all the good math teachers I’ve had in the past, while math may be the universal language, it can’t bring people together the way baseball can. I think it’s because universities seem to only teach it at 8 am and therefore only the true die hards stick it out, plus it’s just flat out hard. Then again so is baseball. But people seem to come together by the thousands from all part of the world to watch a baseball game. If you walked in on a Calculus 2 final exam and tried to get the same enjoyment from that as a ball game, your head would begin to scream at you for doing it and in turn you’d probably start heckling the promising mathematicians for not knowing the integral of x to the n-th power times a million. Or perhaps because you couldn’t find a proper beer vendor. Now there’s an idea that could be fun. Imagine walking into your final exam in a huge auditorium and sitting down to the tone of “Peanuts, cold beer here!” in neon yellow vests walking through the aisles (this must be what Ireland is like). I would definitely have been a little more calm during tests. Enough with the soap box, back to what I was saying earlier. In what other realm can people of our differing backgrounds come together, live together, compete together and not seem to want to kill each other? If only we could settle foreign disputes with baseball games the world would be such a happy-go-lucky place. Plus without baseball all the sporting fan math folks would have to find something other to do. Yes, there are people whose jobs are to figure averages and statistics that somehow come out to winning baseball. Don’t ask me to explain it, 8 am was too early for a college student to learn that stuff. Okay, so we won’t dive into the benefits and what each has contributed to the world for the greater good, there has to be a statistic somewhere (we are talking about baseball and math here. C’mon.) but all I am saying is that for the next presidential election I think we can press the issue a little harder.