Random statistics for the 16 Phillies games that Katie & I went to* in 2009:
4/8 vs. Braves -- 12-11
4/21 vs. Brewers -- 11-4
4/29 vs. Nationals -- 1-5
5/8 vs. Braves -- 10-6
6/12 vs. Red Sox -- 2-5
7/4 vs. Mets -- 4-1
7/9 vs. Reds -- 9-6
7/21 vs. Cubs -- 4-1
8/5 vs. Rockies -- 7-0
8/18 vs. Diamondbacks -- 5-1
8/29 vs. Braves -- 1-9
9/29 vs. Astros -- 7-4
10/3 vs. Marlins -- 3-4
10/8 vs. Rockies -- 4-5
10/21 vs. Dodgers -- 10-4
10/31 vs. Yankees -- 5-8
Katie & I are 10-6 on the year, with the Phillies outscoring their competition 95-74 (though we were only 1-2 in the playoffs).
Game length, in innings:
The Phillies played in two 13-inning games this year; we were at both of them. To make up for it, we did see one game that was called after 8 innings due to rain.
Phillies Winning Pitcher
In summary, if we saw Jamie Moyer, he was likely to win.
Phillies Losing Pitcher
..and if we saw Cole Hamels, not so much. Note that two of those losses were playoff losses, which should count for like 1.5 or something. Ugh.
Homers By Player:
Jayson Werth hit 43 homers this year (36 regular season, 7 postseason) and we saw 12 of them in person in 16 games. That means that in the other 156 games he played that we did NOT see, he only managed 31 homers. Thus there was a 75% chance that we'd see Werth hit a homer, vs. the general public's measly 19.8% chance of seeing a Werth bomb.
* I went to a Phillies-Mets game at Citi Field and an Astros-Cardinals game at Busch Stadium this year as well, without Katie.
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I have resurrected an old-ish design since I realized that my desire to be funny or whatever with my little handwritten "frantic" up there was made unfunny by its ugliness. Figure if I'm going to blog again, I should at least have something worth looking at. While poking through ~zempf/public_html looking for an old design to steal reappropriate I came across a bunch of old stuff that reminded me that this blog is nearly 10 years old (though of course due to the fact that I only get the urge to blog once every few years, there's not nearly 10 years of content on it).
In celebration of that fact, I have dug up some highlights from the past for your viewing pleasure. First off is the design I had while I was in college at OSU, so circa late 1999 right after I bought this domain. Note on the left side the tiny b&w photos of me (from a fucking Connectix QuickCam, baby), in which I have bleached hair and a text pager, through which you could send me messages via a form on the website. I'm sure I thought this was amazingly high tech at the time (and really, it was pretty high tech at the time), but looking at it now I feel kinda nutty. This was powered by Blogger, if I remember correctly.
Next up is this design from 2003 or so. I'm sure something else happened in the interim there, but I don't remember what. Anyway, I still kinda like this one actually, though the best part of it is that you can see a link in the upper right there to a (now gone?) post entitled "frantic.org, where have you gone?" in which I was likely apologizing for not actually updating ever (ah, how things have changed). Note that even then I was powered by Movable Type (probably version 2.6 or so).
A bit of undesign followed in this one from late-ish 2004 which was blog-free, but at least had some fun widgets to play with (which still work, go me). Feel free to create an outdated political sign there.
As a basic indication of how lazy I am, the design you're looking at now was up from about 2005 (that picture up above is from Columbus, if I remember correctly, though I suppose being the sky it could be pretty much anywhere, eh?) till I decided to take it down in late 2008 some time. And hey, archive.org has a bunch more old stuff (which also includes some cringe-worthy old writing, but such is the nature of the web), so feel free to go click around there & marvel that I've been doing shitty website designs for a decade. Woohoo.
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I can't decide if the internet thinks I'm really fat or really gullible (or both). (0 comments)
Yes, that's over a million hits.. of which almost 900,000 came within the first month the site was up. I still get the occasional email about it asking for a refund, which I am generally too lazy to come up with a witty reply to (sorry), but rest assured that your checks are all in the mail.
The funniest thing about this all is that I was talking about it with Katie last night as we were going to sleep & so my last thoughts before drifting off were all along the lines of What if the world really DOES just blip out of existence? I should've done more with my life! Maybe I should put some underwear on, just in case! Not the most pleasant pre-sleep thoughts, of course. And then, around 4am, not one but TWO of our smoke detectors started giving off that annoying once a minute PLEASE CHANGE MY BATTERIES beep-beep-beep. Of course, given that I'm usually a dope when I wake up anyway, and my final thoughts before I drifted off, I woke up with something along the lines of
