@Rey24Terry@SECNetwork The BCS was fair, and most importantly, TRANSPARENT!!!
Now we’ve got 12 white guys, ALL with vested interests in certain programs, who pick the teams and tell us fuck-all about why or how!
We should’ve just kept the BCS system and expanded from 2 to 4 teams.
Fuck the committee
@MobiusDick A lot of quantum activity seems like magic to me.
I’m not saying that it’s a creator pulling quantum strings, just that a few properties of quantum mechanics seem magical.
@iambolar How about a committee of 12 old white guys, all with personal interests in the biggest teams, decide behind closed doors who qualifies and give us zero transparency into how they made their choices?
College Football fans have been lucky enough to have this system for a decade 🤦♂️
Sports Fandom in the south is like Abrahamic religion. Everyone worships the same deity (Atlanta Braves) is just boils down to whatever prophet (SEC School) you're willing to harm your fellow man over.
@espn
Please do better re: Your App
I enjoy college baseball.
I do not care about the first games shown.
Why is there not a filter by conference (eg what we had for college football)?
@Acyn Abby can’t have Brianna Lyman on anymore.
She does too poor of a job representing her position and so often is the worst on that show at listening to the prior comment and responding to it (which is saying a lot for that show).
Major League Baseball is aired in the morning for Japan. So technically they eat breakfast with it being on television.
Here’s their #openingday commercial. No hyperbole, when I say this, it might be greater than any US MLB commercial I’ve seen. Well done and worth the watch for any baseball fan.
🚨In 1700s, French mathematician Georges-Louis Leclerc took a needle, a wooden floor, and a question that sounds almost childishly simple.
If you drop a needle randomly onto a surface ruled with parallel lines, and the needle's length equals the distance between those lines, what are the odds it crosses one of them?
The answer is 2 divided by pi.
No circles anywhere in that experiment. No curves, no arcs, no radii. Just a straight needle falling onto straight lines through pure chance. And pi crawls out of the probability like it was hiding there the entire time, waiting for someone to ask the right question.
Mathematicians call this Buffon's Needle, and it remains one of the most conceptually violent results in the history of probability. You can physically recreate it on your kitchen floor. Drop a needle 500 times, count the crossings, divide, and you will approximate pi to several decimal places through nothing but randomness and straight lines. The circle was never in the room. Pi showed up anyway.
This is what separates pi from every other mathematical constant. It doesn't stay inside its original context. It migrates. Euler discovered it hiding inside the sum of the reciprocals of all squared integers, a problem involving no geometry whatsoever. The Gaussian bell curve that governs how errors distribute in measurements, how heights vary in a population, how quantum particles spread across space, carries pi in its foundation even though the curve itself was never constructed from a circle.
Physicist Eugene Wigner wrote a paper in 1960 that never got the mainstream attention it deserved. He called it "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences." His central bewilderment was precisely this pattern: mathematical structures developed in complete abstraction, with zero intention of describing physical reality, keep turning out to be the exact language the universe was already using before anyone looked.
Pi is his strongest case. It wasn't engineered to fit physics. It was found already fitted, in places nobody thought to look for it, in systems that share nothing geometrically with a circle.
The needle doesn't know about circles. The universe apparently does.
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