and then ask him to sign your forehead, it would be almost like being there.

and tell him it’s his biggest knob-slobbing fan. Perhaps he will leave some DNA as a sig.

Never mind.

he hasn’t been doing much baseball wise lately i assume given the elections and all, so just finding out if he’s been doing anything interesting with baseball would be cool.

are you in the same field as him?

how would he go about implementing a team health factor into PECOTA (or a PECOTA-like system) would be interesting. does he think that team’s that perform best in that realm get most of their gains by selecting the right players or if the trainer and his methods are more important? stuff like that. or, along those lines, what kind of additions would he most like to make to PECOTA.

1) Give Nate Silver a very awkward bj
2)Ask him about his transition from politics to baseball, what did he learn from baseball that lead to political success and if there is anything he has learned doing politics that he could apply back to baseball.
3)Is there anything about PECOTA you would change? (e.g. Health, i.e White Sox and hermie)

What is odd then is that candidates like Tim Pawlenty, the outgoing Minnesota governor, and Senator John Thune of South Dakota are being discussed so much among insiders. Hotline ranks them as the 2nd and 3rd most likely Republican nominees, respectively, but those are the candidates whom I’d bet against at the odds that Intrade is offering.

The theory seems to be that all of the front-runners are flawed in some way, which is undoubtedly true. But if one of the front-runners flops in some way once the campaign actually begins, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be one of the other front-runners who would pick up their slack: if Sarah Palin’s campaign gets off to a poor start, for instance, it is probably Mr. Gingrich — not Mr. Pawlenty or Mr. Thune — who would get first dibs on her votes.

The analogy is to a baseball team that is 7 games out of first place at the All-Star break: how likely is this team to come back and win its division?

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/2012-contenders-to-bet-against/?hp

Like, analyzing poker players or something.

Then ask him if he took the political advice that Curt and Kevin Millar were spewing out the night that they won the 2004 World Series.

That was honestly one of the most asinine things I’ve ever seen.

I remember seeing Millar saying something like "yeah, it’s great that we won. Now we just need everyone to go out there and vote for W on Tuesday and then we’ll win twice. "