Ran across a couple of interesting sports geek posts this week. The first has to do with MLB's blackout policy. Baseball has awarded territories to each team. Within those territories the teams have blackout rights. This comes into play with nationwide baseball broadcasts. When someone subscribes to Extra Innings or MLBTV.com they are limited by the whims of the local teams. In Minneapolis, that only means that I can't get Twins broadcasts through it. Through regular cable, no problem. But some of these territories are vast. For instance, Iowa is a shared territory of six different teams. I can only imagine how frustrating that must be. MLB needs to update it's methods and understand that fan bases are truly mobile. The second article (actually a series of them ), are based on answering the question 'how often does the best team win it all?'. The author simulated 10,000 seasons of football. Well 40,000 actually, but groups of 10,000. He preset the...