Ghosts of Slaughtered Binary Baby Sales Seek Revenge Against Manny

How's that for a non-sensical post title?*

But here's the gist: not since Manny's first game in Dodger Blue, when they went down 2-1 to the D-Backs back on August 1 despite his 2-for-4 day, have the Dodgers gone binary. That's 12 consecutive non-binary games, their longest streak of the season. In fact, their binary average has dropped from 0.363 (25 binary games of 69 total) to 0.298 (36 of 121). During that time, we've seen Binary Baby sales drop a whopping 58%. And they are looking for some payback.

Incidentally, the Dodgers season high in runs was 16 vs the Rockies on July 21. Is it time to get Dodger Hexadecimal Babies on the market?

*If you're confused by the photo, clicking on it might (or might not) help.

The Race to 0.400 Officially Begins

We can officially begin the 0.400 watch. Halfway into the season, Chipper Jones still sports a robust 0.394 BA, a comfortable 30 points ahead of second-place Lance Berkman. The Dodgers, meanwhile, enjoy a 0.363 BA (Binary Average) after throwing two more binary shrimp on the barbie this weekend. The Dodgers stand a staggering 67 points ahead of 2nd-place Oakland.

All facetiousness aside, I really do find it unbelievable that in almost 1 out of every 3 games, the Dodgers score 0 or 1 runs (the 4 games in which they scored 11 runs bring their Binary Average up to 0.363). While both Jones and the Dodgers need to produce a spectacular 2nd half to match Ted Williams' 1941, it's been a long time since the Chase for 0.400 has been interesting this late in the season.

And for those hoping at some point we'll get tired of these binary musings, well the chances of that happening are about 0 or 1 in 1,000,000.

UPDATE: Inspired by Cigarcow's and Sax's discussion in the Spain post below, I did the research: Over the past 14 years in Euro and World Cup competition, Spain has put up a binary score in 17 of 34 games, for a binary average of 0.500. Time to step it up, Dodgers.

Gø B1ue!

A few weeks ago, I stated that "while I don't know this 'percentage binary' figure for the other teams, I'm willing to bet the Dodgers are tops in the league".

Well, I decided to research it and this is what I found (through Monday's games):

(click graph to enlarge)

Sure enough, the Dodgers are far and away tops in the league, with 26 of 69 binary games (38%). In a very distant second, third, and fourth place are Oakland (28%), the Chicago White Sox (26%), and San Diego (26%), respectively. Even if you take away the four binary games in which the Dodgers scored 11 runs, it's still not even close.

P.S. I just noticed that this inadvertently serves as a good companion piece to Sax's post below. Our messages are aligned: the Dodger offense sucks.

Dodgers Keepin' It Binary

After today's 2-1 loss, the Dodgers have put up a binary score in a whopping 22 of 59 games, or 37.3% (although it should be noted that they scored 11 runs in 4 of those games). While I don't know this "percentage binary" figure for the other teams, I'm willing to bet the Dodgers are tops in the league.

In other binary news, Andruw Jones' 2 HR's and 7 RBI's translate to 10 HR's and 111 RBI's...

Post-Series Thoughts: Dodgers Swept At Wrigley

And now, some post-series thoughts from our friend Bit, from the classic movie Tron:

1000100011100010001
0101000100010010001
0010000100010010001
0010000100010010001
0010000011100001110

01110000010000100010010011111
10001000101000110010010000100
10000001000100101010000000100
10001001111100100110000000100
01110001000100100010000000100

1000100111110010001
1000100001000011001
1010100001000010101
1010100001000010011
0101000111110010001

10001000010000100010010001
11011000101000110010001010
10101001000100101010000100
10001001111100100110000100
10001001000100100010000100

011110000100001000100111110011111
100000001010001101100100000010000
101110010001001010100111000011111
100010011111001000100100000000001
011100010001001000100111110011111

10001001111100111110010001
10001000010000001000010001
10101000010000001000011111
10101000010000001000010001
01010001111100001000010001

0111000100010011111
1000100110010010000
1000100101010011100
1000100100110010000
0111000100010011111

1111000100010010001
1000100100010011001
1111000100010010101
1001000100010010011
1000100011100010001

P.S. In addition to the coded message that Bit provided above, he also wanted me to tell you that if we needed to depend on only one run of offense in each of our games this season, our record would be 1-51.