Do you remember this Bob and Ray routine touching on innumeracy?

September 2, 2014 10:15 AM

Can you help me locate an old Bob and Ray routine that briefly lampooned pointless statistical calculations?

If my memory is correct, the routine was something like this. It was a dialogue about a nine-member baseball team on their team bus, driving to the next town.

BOB: They've got to travel 90 miles for their next game, Ray.
RAY: That's 10 miles per player, Bob.

Can you help me find this routine? Or can you provide a similar example of pointless and irrelevant calculations (for a brief piece on statistical illiteracy I'm writing)?

posted by Mr. Justice to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

Not Bob and Ray, but I always enjoyed this:

http://youtu.be/RiiFPTZajS0
posted by jimmereeno at 10:46 AM on September 2, 2014 [1 favorite]

You may need to find (Wally B)aloo broadcasting on a street corner. Or find Chris Elliot, he might have a collection of his dad's stuff.
posted by Cranberry at 10:59 AM on September 2, 2014

Statistician's Blues by Todd Snider might work. It's hilarious, too.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 11:21 AM on September 2, 2014

You might inquire of Larry Josephson -- he runs bobandray.com
posted by Rash at 12:12 PM on September 2, 2014

Headlines from a mathematically literate world
posted by whatzit at 12:14 PM on September 2, 2014

A highly-placed Bob & Ray fan reports, "No idea, but my suspicion is that it might be part of their Broadway show 'The Two and Only.'"
posted by johngoren at 2:51 PM on September 2, 2014