Fighting irrationality with irrationality since 2006.
If anyone is reading this and can provide us with copies of the annual statements of Rochester Community Baseball or the Greater Rochester Sports Authority, please post a comment or shoot an email to firebobmatthews@gmail.com.
posted by Brian at 9:34 PM
Inspired by the scathing wit and heathen use of statistics at Fire Joe Morgan, four veterans of Penfield public schools have decided it's time to take out their frustrations about the way sports are covered, discussed, and analyzed in the fair city of Rochester. How? By injecting their biases, inanity, and irrationality into the discussion, and by backing it up with the use of statistics, clear thinking, and the best in deductive logic. And when that fails, they yell. A lot. After all, there are only three types of lies â lies, damn lies, and statisticsâ¦
4 Comments:
Liz suggests trying a Lexis Nexis search. Especially if you have free access because you work at a school/hospital thingy. That's for the public filings, that is. As for FOIA requests... I'll see what I can find out...
12:03 AM
You may have some luck if you access Factiva, Lexis Nexus, EDGARSCAN or a few others through a school libray's account - so try searching for them either just in the library itself or through a school's portal. I know our alumni access no longer extends to cover those subscriptions, which bothers me when things like this pop up. Anyway, I also believe that you should be able to request the reports through the companys' main offices, although you may know better than I. A few interesting links:
http://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/pubauth/pubauthoritiesreform.pdf
http://goliath.ecnext.com/comsite5/bin/pdlanding.pl?pdlanding=1&referid=1868&accession_number=0000673874&ovchn=INK&ovcpn=usa&ovcrn=United-States&ovtac=PIB
I had another but blogger forced me to register and lost my last message. Couldn't have been that interesting.
Also, Rochester Community Baseball's Cusip is 771698107 and it's ticker is RCCB, sometimes listed as RCCBE
12:11 AM
Believe it or not, I started writing that comment long before wd to . . . had even posted for the evening. So, um, yeah.
12:13 AM
Sorry - one more - both the Greater Rochetser Sports Authority, as a public authority, and Rochester Community Basbeall, as a publicly held corporation, are subject to the Freedom of Information Act and thus required to provide you with their annual reports if you request them. They can charge you no more than 25 cents per page if they photocopy them, and only the reproduction costs if they provide you with them in any other way. They are allowed to withhold information that is deemed to be harmful to a protected interest, but they must indicate the extent to which information has been witheld and must explain in writing the reasons for which the information was withheld.
4:19 PM
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