With the kick-off of a new season (I'll get to my "Yay! Opening Day!" post when I recover from road rage and frozen numbness), it seems as good a time as any to revisit my baseball scoring system, since I know there are geeks out there who dig this kind of thing (you know who you are!). It's fun to review this every now and then as my system has morphed from season to season. This year I've moved off ... Continue Reading

Breaking news has moved to Twitter (and so have I for the most part), print paper is dying, so they say, and well, scoring baseball games is headed in that direction as well. Forget the bulky scorebooks... Electronics is where it's at in this brave new ADHD connected world! And even better if your "scorebook" fits in your pocket. If you remember, I tried scoring on my laptop ages ago using Perl. That pretty much turned into a failed experiment, ... Continue Reading

I'm pretty sure I have two freebie Bob Carpenter scorebooks floating around somewhere that I've been unable to locate. I've decided they're the right size to fit into the back of my camera bag and I'll just adapt to the traditional scoring system. Maybe. I may end up printing and binding a homemade book again. The team store told me they'll begin selling the BC books opening day. So in the meantime, I've resorted to "back of the napkin" scoring ... Continue Reading

[Click image for huge view - hit 'c' to close] I showed my shiny newly-bound unused custom scorebook to Bob Carpenter prior to the first game at Nationals Park and he seemed mostly disappointed I wasn't using his. I conceded that his is smaller and fits in my bag better, but for me to match plays to photographs, this works so much better for me. I'm a linear chronological kind of person, I guess. I tend to forget to move ... Continue Reading

With the new season about to start, I guess I should figure out what to do about my scorebook this season. I had enough pages of my custom system left for spring training, but that supply is now drained. It's also not a perfect system since it requires turning pages after about the fifth or sixth inning. Maybe if I can stomach going to a larger (8.5 x 11) format, I can fit it all on one page. On the ... Continue Reading