I’m not sure I’ve ever met a sports journalist who wasn’t something of a numbers freak. Scores, statistics, streaks … it’s as if the entire fraternity (and the much smaller sorority) comes to the profession with digits already dancing in their heads.

So it isn’t any stranger than usual for someone who has worked in the Toy Department of a newspaper to take note of interesting numbers outside the world of sports.

Like tomorrow’s date, for instance.

I’m calling in Binary Day.

What I don’t know about computers is particularly breathtaking, but I am led to believe that the basis of the system is the binary code — on or off, zero or one.

Eventually, binary numbers give us … Madden NFL 11 and Facebook. Et cetera.

Given that this year ends in 10, perhaps you have noted the several dates that can be thought of as consisting only of the numbers 0 and 1.

Such as January 1 (1-1-10), January 10 (1-10-10), October 1 (10-1-10) or tomorrow, which is 10-10-10 — which is paricularly interesting.

We get a very limited number of same-three-digit dates. This is the 10th of 12 consecutive years in which it occurs, but after December 12, 2012 (12-12-12), we’re not going to have one like it until … after all of us are gone. On January 1, 2101 (01-01-01).

We do have other interesting numbers to look forward to, after 2012. There’s February 2 and February 22 of 2022 (2-2-22 and 2-22-22) and so on. I actually remember one of these from the last century, July 7, 1977 (7-7-77). I recall Kelly Lange, KNBC news anchor, reading a story about the date. I believe it was hoped to be lucky, all those sevens, but I don’t recall anything special happening. But, then, I also recall the day Dusty Baker put up a boxscore line of 0202 (two runs from two walks, two runs from sacrifice flies).

Considering numbers or attaching significance to them is a sort of global thing, it would seem. I recall it being 8:08 p.m. on August 8, 2008 (8:08 p.m., 8-8-08) as the time when the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics began.

Anyway,  10-10-10 … special in a couple of ways. Bring it up in conversation. Amaze/amuse/alarm your friends.