Baseball Prospectus Pizza Feed

by Dex on Jun 22, 2005 9:26 AM PDT in News

Friday's the big day. The Baseball Prospectus Pizza Feed. If you're not familiar with Baseball Prospectus, it's a group of writers devoted to uncovering the truths in the great game of baseball not only through statistics, but in well written essays that make some of this seemingly foreign material more accessible. They use language to perfectly describe what we as fans have a vague notion of. Which of these players really is better? Which statistics truly do describe a player's abilities? All of this is carefully theorized upon and explained. Not just numbers, but words are their friends and medium.

Which is why I find it ironic that there won't be any pizza at the Baseball Prospectus Pizza Feed.

Finding out the news wasn't easy. I was livid at first. I called Jon.

"They lied," I said to Jon in a matter of fact, yet seriously annoyed sort of way.

"What?" Jon asked, confused.

"They lied to us," I confirmed. "You want to go to an event that lies to us?"

"What do you mean?"

Exasperated, I finally spelled it out for Jon, "He can't see. He's blind in one eye."

Of course, eventually, Jon calmed me down and then later went on to tell everybody that Red would still be our jockey... Wait a second...

Ah hell. That was from Seabiscuit, wasn't it.

Anyways. Forget all that. I lost my train of thought. Bottom line. There isn't any pizza at the gloriously mistitled Pizza Feed.

So, that being said, over at Ducksnorts they're trying to figure out a place to meet before the game for some foodstuffs. I'm perfectly happy trying to talk my way into the Toyota Terrace for some of that grub, but I've failed every single time before, and I'm not sure that anything has changed. What's everybody else doing? Richard B Wade can't go to bars. Is there a Pad Squadder out there who can sneak us some grub? I mean, seriously, there's Oggi's right there.

Any regular readers going to this thing? I know David (and his merry crew) and Richard are going. Anybody else? Jon and I need to figure out our plans.

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No Pizza?!

Why are we paying for this then?
Are they going to feed us at all?!

by Jonny Dub on Jun 22, 2005 2:25 PM PDT reply actions

Jon, relax

We still get a ticket to the game. We still get into the Kevin Towers talk thing. We just gotta figure out a different way to get ourselves food.

by Dex on Jun 22, 2005 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Anybody else?

Lance, also of Friar Faithful, is going.

Friar Faithful
Beyond the Box Score

by Richard Wade on Jun 22, 2005 4:23 PM PDT reply actions

Attendees

I got an e-mail from a reader who said he's going. I'm wondering what should be done about food. I'm also wondering when details will arrive...

by Dex on Jun 22, 2005 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions

next they'll tell me there's no Santa Claus

Word on the street is that the Pizza Feed is anything but.

No problema, life's full of disappointments. We shall make merry some other place, prior, nonethless. Richard is my ride, so it has to be all-ages. I will check The Field, pronto...

by Lance Richardson on Jun 22, 2005 7:00 PM PDT reply actions

What?

Dex - if you could set these Santa allegations straight it would be really appreciated.

Visiting from Fish Stripes

by mike42 on Jun 23, 2005 8:13 AM PDT up reply actions

Shhhhhhhh...

Mike, it'll be OK. It'll be OK. Red Ruff really is a giant dog. Don't worry. I know. Yes. Blue Mew really is a giant cat too. OK. Yes. You want a glass of milk? There you go. Good.

by Dex on Jun 23, 2005 9:04 AM PDT up reply actions

Non pizza feed

Paul Swydan <paulswydan@hotmail.com> said in his email about the feed, "For those of you who asked, there isn't actually going to be any food. I apologize if you feel misled on that point."

I wrote him back that referring to the event as a Pizza Feed dozens of times might have had something to do with any feelings of misleading. I'm hoping that will be enough to shame him into springing for some food. Or not. Anyway, is there any food sold at Petco that doesn't suck too much?

by John Evans on Jun 23, 2005 12:01 AM PDT reply actions

Petco food

The food's actually really good at Petco. The Anthony's stuff in particular has a very minimal "ballpark markup" compared to the other stuff. The Oggi's pizza is also really good which is what I thought we'd be getting originally.

Paul said that Petco doesn't allow outside food into their event areas and it's cost prohibitive to pay for the Petco catering. Petco's gonna have to figure something out if these facilities are going to be something that they want groups to use regularly.

Maybe like a corkage fee on boxes of pizza or something.

by Dex on Jun 23, 2005 9:02 AM PDT up reply actions

The "feed"

Paul wrote back to me that he really should have called it a "Ballpark Feed" instead... I don't see how that removes the anticipation of food, but hey maybe all stat-heads really are dense. :)

by John Evans on Jun 23, 2005 9:11 AM PDT up reply actions

Honestly

Having never been to one of these before, I was starting to think that Pizza Feed was some sort of clever acronym that I wasn't getting since there wasn't going to be pizza. With the possibility of no pizza, they ought to come up with a clever acronym.

by Dex on Jun 23, 2005 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions