According to William of Ockham (1285-1349) Law of Parsimony (Ockham’s Razor) simply states, select the answer with the fewest assumptions.
Just because Bill Buckner let the ball go between the wickets in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, and in 2016 the San Diego Padres blew a 12-2 lead over the Seattle Mariners does not mean coming from behind is the norm.
Or is it?
“Just the facts, ma’am.”
FACTS: SportsLibrary.net states comeback wins hardly ever happen. They stated the team who scores the first run of the game usually wins approximately 70% of the time. It’s still not 100%, so according to the Law of … who cares, as a coach I have found the answer to the majority of my questions surrounding the game of baseball were found AFTER we played the game, not before.
“The ninth inning is the toughest outs in baseball,” and the “last out is the toughest one to get.”
Not sure we need a law for this one, but with a team getting the same number of outs in the first as in the last inning and the game only allowing three strikes to each batter, then the least number of assumptions has to be, “the results are determined by how we play each game at this moment.”
I know, duh!
Sharon Gannon said it best, “We create the world we live in.”
Until next blog, “Just the fact, ma’am.”
Al McCormick
