Blogging Baseball
Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants for defeating the Atlanta Braves this evening and advancing to the National League Championship Series against the St Louis Cardinals. What a cliff-hanger, what a surprising ending. And thanks to Dan Shafer for blogging the play by play. That made it even more interesting. [Scripting News]
At various times I have thought about blogging a baseball game. Dan's approach was interesting, but I don't think it's how I would do it. My interest is in the play by play, and not so much the comentary. I think I would make a post for every at bat. Give the balls and strikes and the resulting play. Let the reader recreate the game from the blog.
It would be something like sports.yahoo.com's game log, but generated in real time. It's something to explore, but first I need to get much better at just scoring the game.
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