They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

Statistics can be misleading. The only stat that counts is the score at the end of the game.

They allow you the wide shots so the shots are very misleading (shots on goal statistics). It's hard to find a way to get the puck to the middle.

They will describe success in fantasy sports as being a highly rational, statistics-driven phenomenon, and like in any sort of statistical process, you can't let one good game by one player affect your planning in fantasy sports. So they try not to watch too many games - because they don't want to be influenced by the events on the field.

I don't care about the statistics. Hopefully, we'll get that 'W.' I'd love to go down to Greenville and get a win and keep playing toward a conference championship.