October 31, 2004

Sports as a metaphor on life

With baseball done and basketball starting, football is in the death march of mid-season. How many people can relate their life in terms of the sporting events burned in our memories. My life has been jaded by being an 11-year old rooting for Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw and the miracle Mets in 1969. Ya gotta believe

Now, Dr. Lenny is a free-agent. I cut the tether on my last contract and go forth boldly into the world on a quest to bring science to the status of sports. People need to follow (ie watch) science and see what those folks are actually doing. Science today is badly broken, partly because most people find it too difficult to think about. Only because they believe what they are told.

If you can calculate batting average and ERA, you can do science. Science is asking simple questions and pursuing the answers. It's thinking about things before you believe them. It's seeing that the numbers match the performance - just like sports.

If the Red Sox can win a World Series, then the average person can think about science, and life.
Opening soon at howdt.com will be the howdtfield, with commentary from right field, left field, and the middle infield synthesis. Science, sports and life.

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