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Deadbeat Dad posted:The real interview will secretly be on the Grantland youtube, with Jalen Rose lending Doc Rivers his bat. It will inevitably die within weeks, but feel free to try.
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MourningView posted:It will inevitably die within weeks, but feel free to try.
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Thaddius the Large posted:Hey, just because every other goon project outside of a scat porn donation drive has failed miserably doesn't mean this one will too! Well, there is (and was) no intention in mind to start it as a goon project, just if there was goons that wanted to contribute content in some way. Either way it's fine, just extending the offer out there!
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MourningView posted:It will inevitably die within weeks, but feel free to try. I got probated for saying this once. Just as true as its ever been though.
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Jul 31, 2013 00:57
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Thaddius the Large posted:Hey, just because every other goon project outside of a scat porn donation drive has failed miserably doesn't mean this one will too! There is an actual mass marketed Millville Meteor baseball card coming soon!
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Thaddius the Large posted:Hey, just because every other goon project outside of a scat porn donation drive has failed miserably doesn't mean this one will too! Are you claiming The Zybourne Clock was anything but an unmitigated success?
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Deadbeat Dad posted:Well, there is (and was) no intention in mind to start it as a goon project, just if there was goons that wanted to contribute content in some way. Either way it's fine, just extending the offer out there! Sure, that could be fun. What did you have in mind?
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Declan MacManus posted:Sure, that could be fun. What did you have in mind? I have no stake in Deadbeat Dad's website but something related to the NBA draft threads you make every year could be interesting. I know you pull opinions from a bunch of scouting and pre-draft websites and amalgamate them into the OP, but maybe there is something you can write on regarding that? I just know I always enjoy those threads.
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Declan and I are going to join forces and destroy NBAdraft.net, he can't just give that poo poo away for free.
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Deadbeat Dad posted:Well, there is (and was) no intention in mind to start it as a goon project, just if there was goons that wanted to contribute content in some way. Either way it's fine, just extending the offer out there! Sorry if I came off as anything other than being a passing smartass comment, it's a cool offer and I do enjoy reading other goons takes on sports, you people tend to be pretty smart about this stuff. Also, Zybourne Clock was an unquestionable success, just not in any way I think the creators intended.
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jeffersonlives posted:There is an actual mass marketed Millville Meteor baseball card coming soon! Link?!?
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So, I don't care much about NASCAR but still thought this was a good bit of journalism http://www.sbnation.com/longform/2013/7/30/4567960/dick-trickle-suicide-nascar-profile
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uublog posted:Link?!? Panini America is doing it.  http://paniniamerica.wordpress.com/2013/07/24/panini-america-offers-extended-first-look-at-2013-hometown-heroes-baseball/
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Spoeank posted:Panini America is doing it. oh wow that's the greatest here's something that's not the greatest (how's that for a segue...) apparently Breitbart Sports is a thing! And much to the surprise of absolutely no one it's awful! Today some guy there came up with some dumb bullshit he's called "Value Add": John Pudner posted:...a much more accurate measure than WAR for evaluating the value of starting pitchers by analyzing every start. A solid starting pitcher has only a 21 percent chance of getting his team a win if he needs an ERA of 1.00 to 1.99 for the game, but if his team gets him just one more run he has a 63 percent chance of winning. The simple "Runs Support" models simply do not work. The Formula! quote:To win, he needs to stay below an "ERA Needed" in each game, which is the total of: His team's offensive runs that day MINUS unearned runs allowed by his defense MINUS relief runs allowed, DIVIDED BY his innings pitched TIMES nine. Here's the Top 10 this season: quote:1, Patrick Corbin, Arizona Diamondbacks, 12.56. Other fun quotes: "We ran this formula on 2,157 starts this year by pitchers who were part of their team's four man rotation, so these numbers do not include the poorest pitchers (No. 5 starters, spot starters, or fill-ins)." "A pitcher is credited with a "victory" if he either gets the "Win," or if he pitches at least five innings and his team wins." "This [...] has played out [...] since I introduced it in the New York Post more than 20 years ago, and it continues to measure the one position player that WAR cannot." (my brain exploded a few times sometimes between those two) I'm so glad we've finally found someone worse than Dave Cameron analytically. Unless Cameron is thinking up a way to top this right now... 
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Hey now, that's unfair to Dave Cameron. Cameron at least asks the right questions and runs the right numbers most of the time, he just draws all the wrong conclusions. This guy's premise is worthless from the start.
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Super Jay Mann posted:Cameron at least asks the right questions and runs the right numbers most of the time, he just draws all the wrong conclusions. This is not really true. Cameron is basically indistinguishable from Murray Chass, except he uses WAR and xFIP instead of RBI and W-L record.
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What the hell? The day after Biogenesis and there's not a single A-Rod story here yet? I submit exhibit A, in which "maybe his name isn't even Alex Rodriguez and instead his name is Beldar from the Planet of Lies" credit to Smasher Dynamo in the Baseball Mogul Let's Play, which more of you guys should join! e: I have started a Google Doc to collect the worst examples of overwrought sanctimony. Feel free to make submissions! FairGame fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Aug 6, 2013 |
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Grantland may well have brought us the finest in Sports Journalism for 2013. Truly a tale for the ages.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Grantland may well have brought us the finest in Sports Journalism for 2013. Truly a tale for the ages. Brilliant.
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Hugh Douglas may have a thing for Camele Hill/be a drunk rear end in a top hat. http://www.sportingnews.com/sport/story/2013-08-06/hugh-douglas-michael-smith-altercation-racist-remarks-nabj-convention quote:According to reports by The Big Lead, Deadspin and other media outlets, an altercation between former football player-turned NFL analyst, Hugh Douglas, and ESPN colleague Michael Smith took place at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention in Orlando, Fla. I'm a retired serviceable lineman whos easily replaceable as a broadcaster, I don't have to take your poo poo!
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Grantland may well have brought us the finest in Sports Journalism for 2013. Truly a tale for the ages. lmao
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commy gun posted:Hugh Douglas may have a thing for Camele Hill/be a drunk rear end in a top hat. Didn't Hugh Douglas also get into a locker room fight with TO at one point?
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commy gun posted:Hugh Douglas may have a thing for Camele Hill/be a drunk rear end in a top hat. Adding Hugh to Numbers Never Lie along with their revamp awhile back made that the worst show on ESPN, so hopefully this gets kicked off and that show can maybe somehow crawl up out of the gutt... get mercy killed. I can believe, but be disappointed that ESPN made a quasi-sabermetrics based show and then put loving Hugh Douglas on it.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Grantland may well have brought us the finest in Sports Journalism for 2013. Truly a tale for the ages. I'm speechless. My god.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Grantland may well have brought us the finest in Sports Journalism for 2013. Truly a tale for the ages. Brian Phillips is so loving good.
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MourningView posted:Brian Phillips is so loving good. He's been killing it lately, too. His piece on Landon Donovan is terrific. "Landon Donovan will never win over the guy who wants soulless cadet-destroyers trampling his favorite sports grass. He is maybe the least laser-sound-effect-friendly fast person in the history of professional athletics." http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9511167/landon-donovan-gold-cup/
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Grantland may well have brought us the finest in Sports Journalism for 2013. Truly a tale for the ages. This is absolutely phenomenal.
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Tim Kurkjian did a radio interview about A-Rod, and he brought up the time about 10 years ago, when A-Rod slapped the ball out of Bronson Arroyo's hand while trying to beat him to 1st base in the playoffs vs. the Red Sox, and I can't help but compare that to when Derek Jeter faked getting hit by a pitch, and the ump bought it, and awarded him the base. While A-Rod got completely flame-broiled over what he did as an assholish pure dick-move, Jeter's pretending to get HBP was lauded as a "smart baseball play".
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Selling a borderline HBP is not at all uncommon and does not deserve the ridicule that the karate slap rightfully received.
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nasboat posted:Selling a borderline HBP is not at all uncommon and does not deserve the ridicule that the karate slap rightfully received. Didn't he continue to sell it for an uncomfortably long time after he was awarded first base or am I remembering this incident wrong? vv--No I meant Jeter on the HBP Grittybeard fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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Grittybeard posted:Didn't he continue to sell it for an uncomfortably long time after he was awarded first base or am I remembering this incident wrong? edit: Ah sorry, never mind. haljordan fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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Grittybeard posted:Didn't he continue to sell it for an uncomfortably long time after he was awarded first base or am I remembering this incident wrong? Yes. It wasn't particularly borderline either since the ball clean missed his head.
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The broken bones posted:Yes. It wasn't particularly borderline either since the ball clean missed his head. You're thinking of a different one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg16RtZfrrI That's one where Corey Kluber hits his helmet. This is the fake one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtmALJbrgE4
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The thing about the Arroyo slap is it's such a dumb embarrassing thing, but it's brought up as if to show what a mean cheating rear end in a top hat A-Rod is.
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BrooklynBruiser posted:You're thinking of a different one. oh. I thought there was one where he ducked and the ball hit his bat and he faked being hit in the head for a while. I know Berkman did it, but I thought Jeter did too.
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nasboat posted:Selling a borderline HBP is not at all uncommon and does not deserve the ridicule that the karate slap rightfully received. My point is, if the roles were reversed with A-Rod "selling" a pitch hit off the knob of the bat like it hit his hand just as Jeter did, he would have been called out as a drama queen, bullshit artist, and pussy-rear end baby. If Jeter was the one who unintentionally/accidently swung his arm (on purpose) and by coincidence, it knocks the ball out of the fielders' hand, he would have been given a baseball Oscar, called a genius, and some ad wizard would have worked it into a commercial as a joke.
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Jon Heyman thinks A-Rod is getting off light Heyman is gag-inducing, which is a surprise to nobody.
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