Some of you are probably wondering how the unemployment rate continues to drop when the economy is clearly not adding enough jobs and fewer people are actually working.  The answer is really quite simple.  It all depends on how you keep score.

I am a San Francisco Giants fan, so I adopted this formula to help insure that the Giants win the National League West this season.  It is really simple and easy to understand.

Any inning where outside influences unfairly affect the outcome must be discarded.  That is only fair.  Let me explain.  Supposed the dreaded Los Angeles Dodgers score 5 runs in the first inning.  The Giants do not score any runs.  During the second inning the Giants score 2 runs and the Dodgers are held scoreless.  The Dodger runs from the first inning are discarded under the formula, because the Giants were tired after flying back home from the East Coast.  The Dodgers only had to travel from San Diego, giving them an unfair advantage.  The only rational thing to do here is to ignore the first inning, so that the score is more reflective of actual performance.  Once we eliminate the unfair inning, we get a much better measurement of results.  Thus while some naïve people who do not understand the scoring rule might foolishly think the Dodgers are ahead 5 – 2, in reality the Giants are ahead 2 – 0.

These kinds of adjustments continue throughout the game.  After all, what is fair in the first inning is fair throughout the rest of the game.  Some incredibly naïve and biased folks may complain that only innings where the Dodgers score are ignored under this system, but that is unfair.  San Francisco is more accepting of gay people than Los Angeles, so any criticism of this system is clearly the direct result of anti-gay prejudice.   It is totally unfair to criticize San Francisco just because the city is more tolerant.

With this minor change in scoring the Giants are destined to go from last place in the National League West to winning the pennant by a large margin.  It is only fair, because the Giants players are working really hard and they deserve to be considered winners.  In addition, we all benefit from living in a society free from prejudice.

I would like to take credit for creating this approach but in reality I borrowed the concept from the Obama administration.  This new and better system is remarkably similar to the way the Obama administration measures unemployment.

TDM