David's Blog

 I will be discussing the Diffusion Theory in talking about analytics in baseball.     The Diffusion Theory goes through five phases. Pioneers/Innovators, Early Adapters, Early Majority, Late Adapters, and Laggards.  In the case of baseball analytics, the big part that is used a lot in baseball today is the shift. For the shift, analysts would be considered the pioneers, due to them being the first to introduce the shift to the world of professional baseball. The Early Adapters would be low A minor league teams. Early Majority would be high A minor league teams. When it comes to Late Adapters, this is the phase that was considered revolutionary in the world of baseball. It's one thing to change rules and thought process in the minor leagues, but to bring it to Major League Baseball, "America's Pastime," was very controversial. The first few teams to use the shift would be considered the Late Adapters. Finally, The Laggards would be the rest of the teams to start...

  Email https://cms-assets.tutsplus.com/uploads/users/23/posts/28195/image/gmail-vs-outlook-best-free-email-service-provider.jpg               For my assignment, I explored the origins of Email. In looking at this, there are two names that you will find. The first is Ray Tomlinson. Tomlinson is known as the "Father of Email." The other is Shiva Ayyadurai. The first we will look into is Ray Tomlinson.                In looking into Ray Tomlinson's time in the world of email, there are two sources his timeline will come from.  “A Brief History of Email: Dedicated to Ray Tomlinson.” Phrasee , 1 Oct. 2020, phrasee.co/a-brief-history-of-email/. Jackson, Nicholas. “Infographic: Evolution of Email.” The Atlantic , Atlantic Media Company, 9 May 2011, www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/infographic-evolution-of-email/238587/.   The first point on the timeline was in 1965 when Email was ...

           In looking through antiwar.com and theamericanconservative.com there were a couple things that I noticed. First, with antiwar.com, the site does not seem very professional. I didn't look too much into the content, but with how the site is formatted, I would be very reluctant to take anything I might see on it at face value. Moving on to theamericanconservative.com, from what I could see, the site seemed biased to me. Although many news sources are biased to a certain degree, it is harder to trust one that is less known compared to one that is established.      Regarding the antiwar voices, they have such strong opinions that would be very controversial and criticized in mainstream news. These bold opinions are also why it is so difficult to find them. 

  https://news.yahoo.com/poll-worker-fired-turning-away-220624357.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9uZXdzLmdvb2dsZS5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJARih1vzsxQ9f-Q4mxkWJh5emDtgMMEqV4XQRbJBFC2wytHFXDRKTkjXImI0v9tydg4akr05kZeJIrwAmdVh8wmWGJcIzaHZ76Sq7u0Hx48eargdeB67yxSC5rCvspPNlwb5chw7IuZUBIb9eaeyYRqqOx6nhPS2C-9ksWrX0AN          The article above talks about a situation where a poll worker in Memphis, Tennessee turned away several voters who were wearing "Black Lives Matter" and "I Can't Breath" shirts. This article mentions that according to Tennessee law, voters are not allowed to wear anything with the name of a candidate or political party, but specifically says that Tennessee law says that "Black Lives Matter" is not prohibited.           This relates to the six freedoms of the First Amendment because this is considered freedom of speech. According to the article, this worker thought the statements on the shirt...

      In watching the Youtube videos about the United States Supreme Court, there were two things that stuck out. These were the culture within the U.S. Supreme Court and the background processes of the Supreme Court.      One part of the culture that is talked about is how even though the different justices disagree on different topics, they all have the same goal and have great respect for one another. This respect is very significant due to the many different backgrounds of each justice.      Regarding the background processes of the Supreme Court, one thing that stuck out is that there are 7,000 cases that come in each year and the Supreme Court only takes 100 of those for serious consideration. The justices meet to choose which cases they will work on and vote on previously reviewed cases. The thing that stuck out the most happens after the justices vote. This is an opinion given by one of the justices on the majority side where they giv...

WSMV  and  WKRN WSMV and WKRN are the two local Nashville news stations that I watch and follow when I'm at home. Being at school, I still follow the stations through the apps, but not nearly as much as when I am at home in Nashville. Spectrum News This is the local news source that I use more when I am at school. I do not follow it as much as I do the Nashville stations, but it is somewhere that I get information from.  Bleacher Report Bleacher Report is my primary source of news in sports. I get information about certain teams and sports that I follow.  ESPN ESPN is another source of news that I use for sports. In addition to the news stories that I also get from Bleacher Report, ESPN also gives me scores and results from ongoing games that I am following.