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Lamar Odom.
(Peter Read Miller)
Lamar Odom.
(Peter Read Miller)
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Mike Vorkunov, curator October 15, 2015
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A lot of people have wasted a lot of time thinking about who they want Lamar Odom to be rather than appreciating him for who he is.
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Well that was quite possibly the weirdest inning in MLB playoff history. When the least strange thing that happens in a nearly hourlong inning is a player who isn't on either team's roster being ejected from the game, you know the BASEBALL GODS didn't get enough sleep the night before. FANGRAPHS' ENO SARRIS on the WTF play that started all the trouble, and which the umps apparently got right. ESPN's DAVID SCHOENFIELD on the epic plot of the entire inning. BUZZFEED's TANYA CHEN on the second-most-important home run, and most important bat flip, in BLUE JAYS history... That VIAGRA ad is to baseball what those FANDUEL and DRAFTKINGS ads are to football: reason for someone to invent a real-time TV ad blocker... Exactly how many numbers do mathematicians have to crunch to prove whether or not there's a 50/50 chance that a streak of heads, when tossing a coin, will be followed by yet another head? An ongoing scientific debate on the "hot hand" continues... LAMAR ODOM is "a good, good person that had demons," in the words of his one-time coach ALVIN GENTRY. Thoughts and prayers to a complicated man whose demons appear to have caught up to him.

Mike Vorkunov, curator

October 15, 2015