{"id":4460,"date":"2009-10-08T02:59:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T09:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2009-10-08T02:59:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T09:59:55","slug":"the-real-reason-the-redbirds-lost-game-1-of-the-nlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/the-real-reason-the-redbirds-lost-game-1-of-the-nlds\/","title":{"rendered":"the real reason the Redbirds lost Game 1 of the NLDS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because LA fans tweeted more.<\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting use of Twitter-tracking (called &#8220;Pulse&#8221;) that I found integrated into the <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/gameday\/index.jsp?gid=2009_10_07_slnmlb_lanmlb_1&#038;mode=wrap\">boxscore\/wrap review<\/a> of Game 1 of the NLDS between the St. Louis Cardinals and the LA Dodgers. The Redbirds unfortunately lost, and this timeline-graph shows a correlation between game highlights and spikes in activity on Twitter tracking the game; the other spikes were probably due to non-highlight pressures like loaded bases, pitcher-hitter matchups, defensive plays, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Does the team that Twitters the most, win? It&#8217;s an interesting thought.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mlb_tweet_pulse.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4462\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/the-real-reason-the-redbirds-lost-game-1-of-the-nlds\/mlb_tweet_pulse\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mlb_tweet_pulse.jpg?fit=971%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"971,375\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mlb_tweet_pulse\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mlb_tweet_pulse.jpg?fit=500%2C193&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mlb_tweet_pulse.jpg?fit=640%2C247&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-4462\" title=\"mlb_tweet_pulse\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mlb_tweet_pulse.jpg?resize=500%2C193&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"mlb_tweet_pulse\" width=\"500\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mlb_tweet_pulse.jpg?resize=500%2C193&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mlb_tweet_pulse.jpg?resize=125%2C48&amp;ssl=1 125w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mlb_tweet_pulse.jpg?w=971&amp;ssl=1 971w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because LA fans tweeted more. This is an interesting use of Twitter-tracking (called &#8220;Pulse&#8221;) that I found integrated into the boxscore\/wrap review of Game 1 of the NLDS between the St. Louis Cardinals and the LA Dodgers. The Redbirds unfortunately lost, and this timeline-graph shows a correlation between game highlights and spikes in activity on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1231,270,623],"series":[],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-cardinals","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/mlb_tweet_pulse.jpg?fit=971%2C375&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-19W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4467,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/4467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}