ClaimsWarren Buffett

“The usual baseball game will be held at Rosenblatt Stadium at 7 p.m. on Saturday night.”

Warren Buffett, Berkshire chairman 28 February 2002 Chairman's Letter (2001) (Berkshire Hathaway) archived copy

Promise Their own work or organisation

The usual Berkshire shareholder baseball game will be held at Rosenblatt Stadium at 7 p.m. on the Saturday night of the 2002 meeting weekend.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Promise: Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?

The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

What would count as true or false

True: a Berkshire shareholder baseball game was held at Rosenblatt Stadium on Saturday 4 May 2002, starting at about 7 p.m. Mostly true: the game was held at Rosenblatt that Saturday, but the start time was slightly different or it was delayed. Mostly false: the game was held at a different venue or on a different day. False: it was cancelled, for example because of rain, or it did not take place that weekend.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (2)

  1. E1 Buffett: Enron has silver lining Chicago Tribune · 6 May 2002

    “On Saturday, after the meeting, they gathered to watch Buffett throw out the first pitch at a home game for the Omaha Royals, a minor league team in which he has a minority stake.”

  2. E2 [PDF] 2002pdf.pdf - BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. · 21 February 2003 Own record

    “There won't be a ball game this year.”

Reasoning

E1 shows that shareholders watched Buffett throw the first pitch at an Omaha Royals home game on the meeting Saturday, but it does not name Rosenblatt Stadium or give a start time. E2 does not describe the 2002 game. The criteria separate true, mostly true and mostly false by venue and start time, and the evidence does not settle either.

Cite this claim

Warren Buffett, “The usual Berkshire shareholder baseball game will be held at Rosenblatt Stadium at 7 p.m. on the Saturday night of the 2002 meeting weekend.” (said 28 February 2002). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_dc85977b599d, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_dc85977b599d

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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