Three Reds

A tale of classroom imagination regarding sports-stats and imprints of capitalism-deeds.

A vignette about the 'academic' signature of sports-definition. 

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I started teaching a college undergrad course on the levels of probability-analysis involved with the natural statistical variations in the competitive sport of baseball and distributed special Reds team-sweaters (out-of-the-box) to my students for them to wear to class for the entire month and feel 'excited' about posting (privately/collectively) on social-media their own 'educated' ideations of modern sportsmanship mathematics reflective of capitalism-ethos (e.g., Facebook).

STUDENT: These team-sweaters for the 'theme' of this month's coursework regarding stats-IQ for baseball records is ideal.

Our classrooms at our (Ivy) campus are quite impressive, full with the modern feature(s) of media-tech and great spacing and interiors, which affords my students that 'extra-credit' touch of academic invitational consciousness, which I think would foster this level of stats-probability rigor regarding the great American pastime.

STUDENT: Thinking of the 'chess' of baseball-stats and probability-IQ for evaluations of capitalism-matrices informs profit(s).

TEACHER (Me): Now, I remember a 'canonic' American baseball film, featuring a 'charming' coach-character and social DNA!

In this emerged/inventive age of capitalism-securities consciousness (e.g., 9/11), 'educational' ideations of what comprises the 'quality' of profit(s)-analysis nicely complements our youth-involvement(s) in the diagrams/contours of politicized democracy and therefore anti-terrorism derivations (for social-media!).

STUDENT: You get this 'odd' feeling that the discourse(s) on the 'stat-IQ' of baseball uncertainty casts 'shadows' for magazines.

ESQUIRE: Do you feel the modern academic environment in the West fosters the qualities of stats-depression?
ME: Of course...in fact, I've no doubt about such a claim (wow).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)