Daily Notes: Meeting of the Corey Kluber Society Today

Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of the Daily Notes.

1. Meeting of the Corey Kluber Society Today
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Meeting of the Corey Kluber Society Today
The Purpose of This Post
The purpose of this post is, firstly, to announce a meeting — in this case, at 7:05pm ET today (Wednesday) — of the Corey Kluber Society. Secondly, it’s to publish — for the reader’s pleasure — three accounts by noted personages of Corey Kluber and the eponymous Society.

About the Society
The Corey Kluber Society (or, frequently just “the Society”) is composed of individuals all bound by their singular enthusiasm for the works and days of Cleveland right-hander Corey Kluber.

How to Attend a Meeting
To attend a meeting of the Society, one needs merely to “push it,” where it signifies “spiritual intellect” or something not unlike “spiritual intellect.”

Accounts from the Corey Kluber Society by Famous Personages
A number of notable writers and thinkers have, at one time or another, been quite active within the Society. Below are accounts from three of them.

British novelist C.S. Lewis:

At the time, I knew nothing about Kluber; but instantly I was uplifted into huge regions of northern sky, and I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described (except that it is cold, spacious, severe, pale, and remote) and then found myself at the very same moment already falling out of that desire and wishing I were back in it.

American philosopher and psychologist William James:

The effects [of Kluber] will of course vary with the individual, just as they vary in the same individual from time to time; but it is probable that in the former case, as in the latter, a generic resemblance will obtain. With me, as with every other person of whom I have heard, the keynote of the experience is the tremendously exciting sense of an intense metaphysical illumination. Truth lies open to the view in depth beneath depth of almost blinding evidence. The mind sees all logical relations of being with an apparent subtlety and instantaneity to which its normal consciousness offers no parallel.

Seventeenth-century French polymath Blaise Pascal:

From about third inning until the sixth, FIRE. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers nor of the Wise. Assurance, joy, assurance, feeling, joy, peace… Kluber, the world has not known thee but I have known thee. Joy, joy, joy, tears of joy.

Improving GIF: Kluber’s Slider
Here’s slow-motion footage of the last pitch Kluber threw in his most recent start — a cutter at 92 mph to strike out Mitch Moreland:

Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Houston at Baltimore | 19:05 ET
Erik Bedard (103.0 IP, 115 xFIP-, 0.8 WAR) faces Miguel Gonzalez (112.1 IP, 108 xFIP-, 1.4 WAR). Regarding the former, he hasn’t fared as poorly as some other pitchers who currently possess a 0 Nerd score. He has the distinction, however, of being the slowest-working of all 203 pitchers who’ve thrown 20-plus innings as a starter. His pace figure of 26.4 seconds between pitches is over 2.5 standard deviations slower than average among the aforementioned population.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Houston Radio, Maybe.

Today’s Complete Schedule
Here’s the complete schedule for all of today’s games, with our very proprietary watchability (NERD) scores for each one. Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and RotoWire. The average NERD Game Score for today is 5.8.

Note: the following table is entirely sortable.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Gio Gonzalez	WAS	8	2	6	7	6	DET	Justin Verlander	13:08
R.A. Dickey	TOR	9	7	7	6	4	OAK	Bartolo Colon	15:35
Homer Bailey	CIN	10	3	6	6	4	SD	Eric Stults	15:40
Undecided	CHA	5	1	7	7	10	CLE	Corey Kluber	19:05
Erik Bedard	HOU	0	3	3	8	3	BAL	Miguel Gonzalez	19:05
Chad Gaudin	SF	4	5	3	1	3	PHI	Kyle Kendrick	19:05
A. Wainwright	STL	9	3	6	7	3	PIT	Jeff Locke	19:05
Wade Miley	AZ	6	2	6	10	5	TB	J. Hellickson	19:10
Tyler Chatwood	COL	7	8	8	7	8	ATL	Mike Minor	19:10
Jenrry Mejia*	NYN	10	6	7	2	7	MIA	Hen. Alvarez	19:10
Hisashi Iwakuma	SEA	8	5	7	8	7	BOS	John Lackey	19:10
Jerome Williams	LAA	4	7	6	3	8	TEX	Martin Perez	20:05
Wily Peralta	MIL	6	5	5	4	5	CHN	Edwin Jackson	20:05
Jeremy Guthrie	KC	2	7	3	2	2	MIN	Kevin Correia	20:10
Hiroki Kuroda	NYA	5	3	6	3	10	LAN	Clayton Kershaw	22:10

To learn how Pitcher and Team NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
To learn how Game NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.