From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Steve Sailer
October 30, 2024I almost never bother to try to forecast the outcome of an election. After all, we shall all know soon enough. High-tech California, for instance, should be done counting its votes by early December.
So, rather than attempt to offer insights into the same thing everybody else is talking about, I’m going to indulge myself. The World Series has been on TV and that got me thinking about the history of major league baseball.
Baseball is a traditionalist sport. When Freddie Freeman of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit a last-out, come-from-behind, game-winning home run in the first game of the 2024 World Series to almost exactly match Kirk Gibson’s heroics in a near identical moment in the 1988 World Series, announcer Joe Davis consciously echoed the late, great announcer Vin Scully’s call of “She…is gone!” and then immediately explained the historical context: “Gibby, meet Freddie!”
Read the whole thing there.
In it, I take a crack at explaining the appeal of baseball statistics over other sports’ numbers to the more Aspergery intellects, plus the ups and downs of big league attendance:
Being neither autistic nor interested in baseball I have no ideas.
To me, there is nothing like baseball stats, and there is nothing like baseball pre-strike. It is like life before the great awokening.