The big matchup this Monday afternoon pits San Francisco’s Tim Lincecum against Colorado’s Ubaldo Jimenez in a face-off of two of the best young arms in baseball. Lincecum, of course, has won the NL Cy Young two years in a row, while Jimenez has made a lot of headlines in 2010’s early going by allowing all of seven total runs and posting an as-of-now ERA of 0.88.
News Flash: Sportswriters Are Prone To Exaggeration
An ERA of 0.88 is phenomenal. As a matter of fact, adding Jimenez and Lincecum’s ERAs together still yields a figure well below the average of 4.13. However, there’s acknowledging that Ubaldo Jimenez has been really good, and then there’s this:
Jimenez threw eight shutout innings to improve to 9-1 and lower his already-microscopic ERA from 0.99 to 0.88.
Seems like we could all use a little refresher course. Remember that ‘microscopic’ means ‘so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope.’
Things That Are Microscopic
Bacteria
Electrons
The bristles of a Drosophila sex comb
Ubaldo Jimenez’s head
Things That Are Not Microscopic
Sheep
Microscopes
Numbers
Little Numbers
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