Fenway Workers Find a New Way to Go After Aramark

Fenway park workers in the Workers United Union, fresh off of a $1.5 million dollar settlement of a class action lawsuit involving the skimming of tips, are still going after Aramark. The union has released a new study that suggests teams that use Aramark as their food and beverage supplier are less lucky on the playing field:

According to a look at the numbers by Workers United, baseball teams with home stadiums that use Aramark to sell beer, hotdogs and other ballpark snacks, get caught stealing bases more, hit fewer home runs and have worse “luck”.

The experts at www.baseball-reference.com track a statistic called Pythagorean Win-Loss, the expected win-loss record based on the number of runs scored and allowed by the team. They also track Pythagorean Luck, the difference between the actual win-loss and the Pythagorean win-loss. A lucky team is a team with a Pythagorean Luck score higher than 0. That means the team wins more games than it should based on the number of runs it scores and gives up. An unlucky team is a team with a Pythagorean Luck score lower than 0. That, of course, means that the team wins fewer games than it should based on the number of runs it scores and gives up.

In a comparison between teams with home stadiums that use Aramark and teams with home stadiums that do not, Workers United found that non-Aramark teams’ average luck is .40 and Aramark teams’ average luck is -1.93.

So now we replace the curse of the Bambino with the curse of the Aramark $7 beer?