Short random thought post

It seems incredible to me the amount of name overlap in professional sports. For instance, tonight Adrian Peterson scored a TD for the Bears. At last check, he's about to leave Oklahoma for the NFL too. The name Dee Brown comes to mind. Played a few years with the Celtics and some other teams, then apparently went back to school at Illinois and came to the NBA again. Apparently took a few years to play baseball with the Kansas City Royals too. Jason Williams has appeared in two forms in the NBA, and also seems to find time to play hockey. There may not seem to be a LOT of examples, but consider the sample size of the population at whole (there are roughly 450 pro basketball players, 700-800 baseball players, 1600 football players, 600 hockey players, etc out of an american population of what, 300 million? And factoring in international numbers... you get the point). Though perhaps if you consider the seemingly strange result to the famous birthday probability problem, that shows that by a class size of only 23 people, you have about a 50% chance that two students have the same birthday, maybe it isn't that odd after all. But sure seems it. (By the way, I'm obviously not counting father son combos like Ken Griffey, Ken Griffey Jr.) Luckily, we have not had to revisit the Michal Grosek era.

My boss is in San Francisco this week. If you think I am overworking myself in the meantime, you'd be wrong.

Great article on ESPN.com right now about pink sports clothes/jerseys. One of my huge pet peeves. I've always contended that anyone who wears pink sports clothes are not actually fans. They're probably the giggly type that just roots for a team because it's cool, but doesn't know any players, how the game is played, and spends far more time getting drunk on $8 beers than actually watching the game. I dare you to tell me I'm wrong.