Who the Hell Cares?

Brian Cashman of ESPN.com seems to think that home runs are traveling further than they did last year, by 8 whole feet. Who cares? What does that have to do with anything? Were only 3 weeks into the season and if the home runs are going a little bit further than last years first 3 weeks that doesn't mean that now all of a sudden the ball is different or bats or different or that everyone has just started taking steriods in the last 6 months.

But Cashman also said home runs are traveling about eight feet farther so far
this year compared to last season. "It's possible that the ballpark is a home
run-type park," Cashman said in an interview before his talk. "We'll see. The
ball is going farther in every park, not just ours."

I think some of these professional bloggers are just stupid. They get paid to talk about nonsense all day every day. I bet most of them have never even played baseball except for maybe some tee ball when they were 5. It's rediculous; start talking about stuff that matters, not the fact that you THINK that home runs are going a couple feet further than last year. But, since we are talking about it, one blogger did his research on the subject to try and combat Cashman's stupid statement. He found that there has been quite a bit more home runs hit this year than last year, but that the homeruns have been on average ONE foot further. Wow!!! So that means absolutely nothing. The average last year was 396 feet and this year is 397 feet. So the difference between the two is only about .25%. That's so miniscule that you can't possibly creat a correlation to state that the balls are going really any further than last year. Until I see around a 2-3% increase I might actually care, but probably I still wouldn't. I don't understand these people who have nothing better to do than to disect the game, and still get it wrong. I say we watch and appreciate the game and stop caring about the stupid little things that don't change any games. The fact that there have actually been a decent amount more home runs hit this season is kind of interesting to me. There have been about 50 more HR's this year in about 20 less games than last year, now that's a big difference.