Silly and not Sinister!
I don't watch or care much for ice hockey since the Canadian part of the 1972 USSR-Canada series so I find
this ultimately comical (it seems to be everywhere if I let myself listen to the, as usually, brain-dead Canadian media). There are actually people who think this matters!
Meanwhile freedom of speech does not get such coverage.
Labels: free speech, hockey night in canda analysis, media stupidity
"Situational Hitting"
OK - I loved watching Cleveland beat the Yankees and I loved the amazing performance of Cleveland hitters with two out.
But heavens to Betsy - the pre-game broadcasters are calling this "situational hitting"!
I would accept this description if the Cleveland manager had told the team to hit better with two out than with fewer out. That would be "situational hitting".
But if I were the team owner, I would fire that manager.
Much of this is the sort of nonsense wonderfully lampooned in
Nassim Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness".
Basically, is foolishness pretending to be wisdom.
Labels: media stupidity
