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October 30, 2010
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
The annual Florida-Georgia Liquid Diet Invitational kicks off this afternoon. With both football teams hovering around .500, the main event for those watching the game on TV will be scanning the crowd hoping to catch a glimpse of rcade and his all-Duval bad boy entourage making a public spectacle of themselves.
posted by beaverboard at 01:32 PM on October 30, 2010
To infinity and beyond?
posted by billsaysthis at 04:35 PM on October 30, 2010
How exactly does one earn an infinite ERA?
posted by Bonkers at 02:59 AM on October 31, 2010
How exactly does one earn an infinite ERA?
Allow one or more earned runs without recording an out. Since you technically haven't pitched an inning (or 1/3 of an inning, as it were), your ERA would be infinity...
posted by MeatSaber at 05:05 AM on October 31, 2010
Makes sense, even if it does suck for him.
posted by Bonkers at 06:17 AM on October 31, 2010
Texas Rangers reliever Derek Holland wakes up this morning with an infinite ERA in World Series play. I checked on Baseball Reference, and sure enough it reports him as "inf".