OT: Philip Humber Throws Perfect Game

The world's biggest homer doesn't get to call the biggest individual player achievement of his long tenure on the South Side. Just too funny.

Because Bud Selig is the worst commissioner in all of sports, slightly worse than Gary Bettman Crosby

If anything, there's MORE talent in the bigs than there way years ago because the scouting system is way better so talented players don't get overlook and end up playing for some semi-pro in North Dakota. The most important source of talent, however is international players who are coming to the bigs in ever-increasing numbers. Plus, if the talent was really getting watered-down, we'd see a few good players among a sea of mediocrity. That would be reflected in a greater disparity between the elites and the normal players in, say, batting average. But if you look at it, the standard deviation of batting average has been on a pretty steady decrease since the early 1900s. Hence the argument that there's less talent isn't really substantiated.

If, then, we take the remaining issue, more games, let's again examine the numbers. When there were 16 teams each playing 154 games per year, there were 1232 games played per year. During those years (1901-1961), there were 4 perfect games, which means that there were 18,480 games played per perfect game. During the past decade, there have been 5, for a total of one perfect game per 4,860 games played. Obviously this is not a rigorous statistical analysis, and I've forgotten too much stats to actually do so, but it seems to me that despite there being more games played, the numbers would seem to indicate that it's disproportionately more frequent than it used to be.