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ElwoodCuse posted:Seriously, I guess I just don't "get" baseball because I've always thought the DH/No DH split was really stupid I'm pretty sure that just about everyone agrees that it's really stupid. The problem is that everyone's split about 50/50 on whether to solve that by going All DH or No DH, so it just keeps going. Also by now there are probably dumb grognards who think that leagues with different rules is some special baseball magic and would cry if you standardized them, but grognards ruin everything anyway.
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haljordan posted:From Dan Shaughnessy's article on how much of an ayehole Frank McCourt is: There wasn't enough security at the games, lighting was poor, no one stepped in to stop drunks from getting out of hand. The Dodgers were even planning a series of half-off beer games when the Stow thing happened. All of this is because of underinvestment in team operations and lack of management attention. And that's McCourt's responsibility. Plus he had no chief of security, good lord. The LAPD ended up saying 'gently caress you' to McCourt and taking over security themselves. You can't say any of this would've stopped the Stow thing, but there's no question McCourt is an rear end.
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Mornacale posted:I'm pretty sure that just about everyone agrees that it's really stupid. The problem is that everyone's split about 50/50 on whether to solve that by going All DH or No DH, so it just keeps going. Also by now there are probably dumb grognards who think that leagues with different rules is some special baseball magic and would cry if you standardized them, but grognards ruin everything anyway. I am one of these grognards! It's part of what makes baseball unique, like different field dimensions.
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toadee posted:Also Manny wasn't a quitter, the whole thing is retarded, Dan Shaughnessy is a loving jackass and it angers me so loving much that every casual fan you work with or meet in a bar around here buys into his curse of the bambino/Manny's a quitter/Nomah didn't dirt dawg it like Jeter bullshit. Show me one person who wouldn't want Manny in his prime on their team, "baggage" and all, and I'll show you a moron (Hint: its Dan Shaughnessy).
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ElwoodCuse posted:Seriously, I guess I just don't "get" baseball because I've always thought the DH/No DH split was really stupid I was already a baseball fan for life before I even learned what a designated hitter was. I grew up a baseball fan, and that's how things were. It's kind of strange, but it's not that big a deal.
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The whole NCAA mess at Carolina has resulted in many truly terrible columns. Retards attempting to play judge, jury, and executioner? Check. Insipid moralizing? Check. Misrepresentation of the facts? Check. Ridiculous hyperbole? We got that poo poo in spades. Ignoring the nuances and complexities of the case? Check. Look, I understand that I'm somewhat sensitive to the particular brand of bullshit. That said, I don't necessarily need to agree with a sportswriter's thesis to appreciate the fact that they've written a well-conceived piece. This isn't one of them. Here's one from some redneck in Elizabeth City, known colloquially as Elizabeth lovely. quote:RALEIGH — In a court of law, prosecutors would have little trouble convicting North Carolina football coach Butch Davis. brb, setting my degree on fire in the yard
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swizz posted:The whole NCAA mess at Carolina has resulted in many truly terrible columns. Retards attempting to play judge, jury, and executioner? Check. Insipid moralizing? Check. Misrepresentation of the facts? Check. Ridiculous hyperbole? We got that poo poo in spades. Ignoring the nuances and complexities of the case? Check. Is this from a blog or something? Or did that actually make it through an editor?
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That's literally a published column from one of the marquee sportswriters for The Daily Advance in Elizabeth City, NC.
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Seeing Dan Shaughnessy's face beside a column entry is like the green light that lets me know to skip that story due to a lack of logic or non-Boston content.
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The DH is a totally worthless position but at the same time it's far more exciting than watching pitchers strike out 4 times a game.
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swizz posted:brb, setting my degree on fire in the yard quote:So far, though, the only harkening sound from over on the hill is equivocation. Or, is it just plain silence? Should the Stieg quote ever need to be replaced, I'd vote for this.
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Bigass Moth posted:The DH is a totally worthless position but at the same time it's far more exciting than watching pitchers strike out 4 times a game. But pitcher hits are the best kind of hits and totally make up for the other 90% of ABs.
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Grozz Nuy posted:But pitcher hits are the best kind of hits and totally make up for the other 90% of ABs. And that's why Zambrano is the best pitcher in the world. Finally got our first  out of Grantland: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6708682/the-math-problemYou can't underestimate intangibles, everyone!
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What's really shocking is that comes from Jonah Lehrer, who has written two really enjoyable books and is an awesome regular contributor to Radiolab. I'm just going to pretend he didn't write it 
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I don't entirely disagree with that, I've seen a few people be like "They should just get rid of baseball managers  " without taking into account that the "makes sure the locker room doesn't dissolve into chaos" and "makes sure everyone actually practices" part of managing can be pretty goddamn important
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The article has some ok points, but Tom Ziller has a pretty good take-down here.
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morestuff posted:The article has some ok points, but Tom Ziller has a pretty good take-down here. Colin Wyers piece is pretty good too
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Grozz Nuy posted:But pitcher hits are the best kind of hits and totally make up for the other 90% of ABs. agreed that nothing owns more than seeing a pitcher launch a dinger to improve his batting average to .059
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swizz posted:That's literally a published column from one of the marquee sportswriters for The Daily Advance in Elizabeth City, NC. As someone who grew up in a household that received the Daily Advance every day I can say with some authority that they don't have a marquee anything. But yes, that is a pretty terrible article.
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Fag Boy Jim posted:I don't entirely disagree with that, I've seen a few people be like "They should just get rid of baseball managers That's kind of a strawman, the thing I seriously hear advocated is that the tactical decision-making process should be removed from the manager. I haven't heard anyone seriously argue against abolishing the manager as a clubhouse manager.
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The Wise Teen posted:As someone who grew up in a household that received the Daily Advance every day I can say with some authority that they don't have a marquee anything. My bad if you're from E City. There are worse places down east, that is for drat sure. It was inevitable that I'd post an article about our scandal, there have definitely been a lot of them over the past year.
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You know what makes a great piece of writing? When you give a run down of your own best tweets from the day.
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AlleyViper posted:You know what makes a great piece of writing? When you give a run down of your own best tweets from the day. This person  looked at this tweet @CaminoTribe Orlando Cabrera's HR off J.J. Putz shows again why you don't bring closer into a non-save. I get reasoning, but the mentality is different. and decided it was so brilliant that he had to make sure it reached every nook and cranny of his audience
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swizz posted:My bad if you're from E City. There are worse places down east, that is for drat sure. It was inevitable that I'd post an article about our scandal, there have definitely been a lot of them over the past year. Not quite, but close to there. Wasn't sure if you were from out that way, since basically no one has ever heard of the Daily Advance. I have no love for Elizabeth City though, just trying to find some common ground since you seem like an alright dude despite our irreconcilable sports fandom.
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Deathlove posted:And that's why Zambrano is the best pitcher in the world. I hate this. The car analogy is so flimsy and I am so tired of people trying to compare basketball to baseball in terms of sabermetrics. This paragraph loving sucks: quote:If that little kid were around today, he'd be obsessed with sabermetrics. He'd almost certainly win his fantasy league, but he'd miss the point of the game. Sure, he wouldn't have squandered center field on Rowand, but he also wouldn't have started Barea or bet on the Mavs. His car would have way too much horsepower and lovely seats. This is essentially a mature version of the "You nerds play with your numbers in the basemen while I'm outside, getting dirty, having fun."
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Yes, he would miss the point of the game. the correct way to like baseball is THIS way, not THAT way. If you like this thing instead of that thing, you're wrong and the terrorists win. Also it's impossible to like two things.
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I've been reading through some more of Lehrer's articles and they're equally infuriating pop-psychology/neuropsych bullshit dressed up with lots of studies used to make really vague conclusions. A bunch of other writers on Twitter swore to me that this sabermetrics article of his was an outlier, but now I'm really not so sure. His whole shtick is on misapplying statistics (which have often been obtained in a questionable fashion) to policy or medicine, and now he writes a lovely article decrying the (supposed) misuse of statistics in sports? gently caress him. Double gently caress him for claiming that the very existence of advanced metrics somehow induces people to misuse them. SporkOfTruth fucked around with this message at 05:51 on Jun 29, 2011 |
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This loving beauty from the Indianapolis Star:Bob Kratvitz posted:There were foreign players chosen late in the second round whose names are a series of clicking noises. It was as if NBA general managers were playing some sinister sort of Scrabble game, grabbing Chukwudiebere Maduabum and Targuy Ngombo instead of the likes of Ohio State’s David Lighty and Butler’s Matt Howard. Ater Majok! Triple word score!
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SporkOfTruth posted:I've been reading through some more of Lehrer's articles and they're equally infuriating pop-psychology/neuropsych bullshit dressed up with lots of studies used to make really vague conclusions. A bunch of other writers on Twitter swore to me that this sabermetrics article of his was an outlier, but now I'm really not so sure. His whole shtick is on misapplying statistics (which have often been obtained in a questionable fashion) to policy or medicine, and now he writes a lovely article decrying the (supposed) misuse of statistics in sports? His book "How We Decide" was pretty good IMO, but if you didn't like his articles I'm not sure how much it would appeal to you. edit: Wyers can be really unnecessarily abrasive on Twitter, but his takedown of that lovely Lehrer article is not to be missed stuart scott fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jun 29, 2011 |
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Crazy Ted posted:This loving beauty from the Indianapolis Star: Holy poo poo this is bad
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Crazy Ted posted:This loving beauty from the Indianapolis Star: Haha this kind of blatant race-pandering is why people hate the NBA so much.
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Haha this kind of blatant race-pandering is why people hate the NBA so much. David Lightly is black. Knowing that, I think he is going more with known and seen American college plyaers vs completely unknown foreign players. But the clicking noises part is bad.
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Weebly posted:David Lightly is black. It doesn't matter that Lightly is black. It's still a vaguely racist comment. More ethnocentric or minutely xenophobic or something.
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Back of the 2nd round picks are very important. There are non-guranteed contracts and d-league roster spots at stake here!
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The Wise Teen posted:Not quite, but close to there. Wasn't sure if you were from out that way, since basically no one has ever heard of the Daily Advance. I have no love for Elizabeth City though, just trying to find some common ground since you seem like an alright dude despite our irreconcilable sports fandom. At least we have the Carolina Panthers to rally aro-hahaha (seriously though, win some games) Although we're proud of the college sports tradition in this state, this is the second summer in a row that fans have been at each others' throats with more vitriol than usual and it's just not fun or even interesting. It's as if fans of every school in the region feel as if they have some sort of stake in the NCAA ordeal, which is silly, and there's been a complete loss of perspective. Honestly, I'm tempted to chalk it up to the media shitstorm that's fallen over the state. Can we please have an MLB team soon and give sports columnists around here something to write about during the summer
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