Witnessed: Oblique Reference to This Site on Noted Sitcom

Law Firm Three

Not for nothing did Aristotle, in probably his Ethics or something like his Ethics, declare that contemplation is the “highest good” — but that, right after contemplation, brushes with fame were the “second-highest good.”

The editors of and contributors to this site experienced the latter of those goods last night by means of popular sitcom Parks and Recreation. Created in part by Michael Schur, writer emeritus of Fire Joe Morgan, the first episode of that program’s seventh season features a law firm whose name is composed entirely of terms borrowed from baseball’s nerd lexicon — including, but not limited to, FanGraphs WAR (often abbreviated as fWAR).

Just as the woodlands which, in Psalm 29, are stripped bare by the voice of God, the author and his colleagues are stripped bare.

Image stolen entirely sans ruth from Deadspin.

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Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

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BipMember since 2016
10 years ago

aw man well now that fangraphs is mainstream i can’t it read anymore, i have indie cred to maintain