Nerd Alert

Here are some random Phillies Phun Phacts Phrom the Phuture of Now:

• Jimmy Rollins' batting average has increased from .294 to .314 since April 28. In that same span of time, his OBP has increased from .368 to ........ .368. Which seems very difficult to do if not for the fact that,
• Rollins has walked once in the last 24 games. If you pro-rate that over the course of the season, you are looking at a total of 7 walks.
  
• Wes Helms continues to do his best David Bell impression. Though he is hitting a respectable .284, his OBP is now at .318 and his SLG is at .343, almost 100 points less than his career average.
  
• The Phillies lead the major leagues in OBP, yet are only 11th in baseball in runs per game. A lot of this has to due with Howard's season long slump and the power twins, Burrell and Helms, having a difficult time this year mustering up more than singles.
  
• Cole Hamels could strike out Jesus Christ with his changeup.
• Shane Victorino probably had the greatest 4 day span of any major league baseball player from Hawaii. He went 10 for 17 (.588 BA), had a SLG of .824, got his picture taken at the Golden Gate Bridge with his imaginary friends, and stole six bases. Benny Agbayani, eat your heart out.
  
• Despite popular believe to the contrary, Freddy Garcia does not have the ability to move large objects with his mind.
  
• Rod Barajas is on pace for 92 walks. Coming into this season, Barajas had a total of 85 walks for his career.
• Rod Barajas still stinks, though.

Don McKee is Back!

From his column today, 5/6:

I made an unaccountable blunder last week, saying no team from New York City (or Philly or Boston) was in the NHL or NBA playoffs this spring. All this while the New York Rangers were advancing to Round Two of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

He admits he was wrong. At least that is a start.

The aftermath was one of the biggest surprises I've had in 32 years with this paper. I got more than 150 e-mails, a dozen questions on the Philly.com Web site and several angry phone calls.

Shocking that people who read a newspaper as large as the Philadelphia Inquirer would actually care that the columnists actually get their facts correct. Especially in hockey town like Philadelphia.

So it would appear that readers of The Philadelphia Inquirer are more interested in the New York Rangers than they are in the Eagles, Phillies, 76ers, Flyers and Penn State (my usual topics) combined.

No, you arrogant asshole, it appears that readers of The Philadelphia Inquirer are concerned when one of the writers comes up with an inane statistic THAT ISN'T EVEN FACTUALLY CORRECT. And that the paper itself would not have anyone to actually check the facts, either.

Maybe it shows you that people don't give a, pardon my french, hootenany about your old man opinions, but they do want the facts printed in their newspaper to be correct.