Category: Baseball
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Groovy Box Scores (minor correction)
I noticed running the Groovy code I posted the other day that I accidentally reversed home and away. It’s not critical, because I still got the URL right, but it’s better to be right. The fix was just to switch the groups: away = m.group(1) home = m.group(2) and then to update the ${away} and…
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Groovy Box Scores
Long ago I decided the best thing about Ruby on Rails was Ruby. Ruby is a great language, with a friendly community and lots of samples to learn from. Still, it’s quite a radical change from Java, which is the language where I am most comfortable. That brought me to Grails, on a journey I’ve…
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It’s not all Gagne’s fault
I’ll keep this short and sweet. Yes, if it wasn’t for Eric Gagne, the Red Sox probably would have swept all three games against the Orioles rather than lose two of three. Yes, the Yankees are playing video game baseball right now and may win no matter what we do. But somebody please, please explain…
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I got Potterred
Here I am, minding my own business, digging into Struts 2.0, when an owl from Amazon.com delivered a package on my doorstep on Saturday. There was a book inside. To be honest, it wasn’t completely unexpected. I stopped reading the Harry Potter series after book 5, because I really didn’t like the extended scenes of…
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Burned by MLB and DRM
I know this isn’t really business related, but I thought I’d write a post about this problem just in case anybody knows a solution. In late 2004, after the Red Sox won the World Series, I purchased the downloadable broadcasts of all of their playoff games from Major League Baseball. That came to about 20…
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Quick moment to gloat before the Yankees start hitting again…
Everyone says you should stop and smell the roses, right? My own variation on that line is, whenever you find yourself in a good position, be sure to enjoy it, because everything changes. Well, the Red Sox are currently 36-15, the Yankees are 21-29, and the difference between them is a whopping 14 1/2 games.…
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20 days and counting…
In honor of the first Yankees/Red Sox game of the season (okay, pre-season), let me just remind everyone that opening day is only 20 days away. Sweet. Just to prove to myself that my son (Xander, age 14) doesn’t read my blog, I’ll let you in on a little secret. I’ve told him that we’re…
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Baseball Tour 2006
Normally here I’d rather spend time talking about technologies I’m working with and the process I’m going through learning them, but I thought I’d take a small moment as an aside to mention the baseball tour I just finished with my son Xander, 14. A week ago Sunday (8/6) we went to McCoy Stadium to…