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Why does a 140-character limit compel someone to use as few characters as possible? It's like reading the classifieds.
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Brace yourselves, the annual Fangraphs organizational rankings are coming:Dave Cameron posted:With a new wave of front office talent crashing into front offices are furious rates, it’s nearly impossible to turn over a front office and not get an analytical upgrade in the process, but the Orioles may have accomplished exactly that this winter. Such prose 
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I CHALLENGE THEE posted:Just in case you wondered if fangraphs writers could embarrass themselves any more In the last few weeks, I've read three or four Fangraphs articles and thought, "Wow, this is actually decent. You don't see that much on FG. Who wrote this?" Turns out it was Jeff Sullivan. Every single time.
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Sep 8, 2012 02:57
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Everybody's favourite 11-time Sportswriter of the year: https://twitter.com/ReillyRick/statuses/248897525795418113?tw_i=248897525795418113&tw_e=details&tw_p=tweetembed I could find ten better writers at a My Little Pony convention posted:Dear Seamheads: Please explain how Miguel Cabrera can be 1 HR away from a Triple Crown + some of u r still talking Mike Trout MVP? #GetCable
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Sep 22, 2012 04:39
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It's always funny to read baseball writers accidentally make a decent criticism of WAR, but keep building on it until they've narrowed all relevant statistics down to wins and RBI. Let's watch our friend Jerry Green of The Detroit News do that now, shall we? http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120929/OPINION03/209290399/ quote:ESPN claims that Trout merits the MVP award — despite Cabrera's possible Triple Crown — on the basis of WAR. This is not the kind of war that Ted Williams fought in twice amidst his Triple Crown-style seasons. Or the war that brought Willie Mays into the Army during his career. The Tigers are currently seventh in the American League.
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Oct 3, 2012 05:56
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Since we can't rely on "invented" statistics to determine the MVP, it looks like we'll have to give it to whoever has the highest of the following non-"invented" stats:
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Oct 4, 2012 02:07
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hcreight posted:He literally thinks this is how WAR works. The best logical-extreme example of this kind of thinking were the people saying Peyton Manning should have won the NFL MVP last year without playing a game.
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Oct 15, 2012 04:40
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Guess who wrote a baseball article again  It's just a rehash of all the arguments for Mike Trout as AL MVP (that mentions WAR a convenient zero times), but he might as well do something between now and the 2014 House races.
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Nov 15, 2012 04:11
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Cameron had a rebuttal to Jim Caple's WAR article last week that basically amounted to "Well, WAR isn't the perfect statistic, but it's definitely the best one." I think Jeff Sullivan and Dayn Perry are okay at Fangraphs, although they're less about analysis and more about kickin' rad GIFs and whatever NotGraphs is, respectively.
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Feb 10, 2013 01:15
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The 2013 award for Saltiest Tears of the Year goes to Dennis Latta, a reporter who followed the University of New Mexico Lobos for 33 years and is quitting his job because they lost to Harvard. http://deadspin.com/a-new-mexico-beat-writer-actually-quit-his-job-because-458421252 http://newmexico.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1486756 tinstaach fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Mar 23, 2013 |
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Mar 22, 2013 23:08
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So Jonah Keri wrote this in his Grantland article last week:quote:The notion of A-Rod playing for the Yankees or anyone else again might be merely hypothetical at this point, anyway. Baseball colluded against Bonds after the home run king hit .276/.480/.565 in 126 games for the Giants in 2007. From a PR standpoint, A-Rod has been 10,000 times the pain in the rear end Bonds was, and he’s nowhere near the hitter Bonds was when teams slammed the door in the San Francisco slugger’s face. Most of SAS agrees with him, but is it a common thing for writers (at least, writers in the know) to call out the owners like that about Barry Bonds without even couching it?
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Feb 18, 2014 04:58
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MourningView posted:Yeah people talked about it even at the time. It was pretty obvious what was going on there. I was about to ask why the union didn't raise an issue, but then I remembered that
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Aug 30, 2015 03:10
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Hmmmm, hard to pick sides on this one OP.
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Aug 31, 2015 01:07
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Man my sarcasm really isn't coming through, of course I know that Bomani is a rad dude and Rovell is a balance sheet made flesh. It's not even like Skip Bayless where he's saying inflammatory things just to get people to argue with him. A few months ago he was defending sweatshops because the market paid the workers what they're worth or some poo poo.
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Aug 31, 2015 02:44
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Katie Nolan deserves credit for being a Boston sports fan who isn't insufferable, and that's no small feat. Even Charlie Pierce couldn't go two paragraphs without whining about Deflategate in the last days of Grantland. And this is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmRy-UfKysI
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Dec 12, 2015 05:53
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Henchman of Santa posted:The guy from Detroit Sports Rag broke a story about 105.1 switching from sports to classic rock, and he lost his mind because the Detroit News' Tony Paul tweeted "@DetroitSportsRag broke the story first" instead of ".@DetroitSportsRag broke the story first" Didn't 105.1 get the contract to broadcast Lions games after 97.1 refused to fire Mike Valenti?
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Jun 30, 2016 15:44
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Jonah Keri bringin' the pain: https://twitter.com/jonahkeri/status/750439991830917120 fake edit:  https://twitter.com/rembert/status/750468292746285056
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Jul 6, 2016 00:20
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MourningView posted:The cooking articles were good when Burneko was doing them! Dunno if you saw his article last week or so, but apparently Burneko had a Foodspin book deal lined up that fell apart when he wrote another Deadspin article trashing some Youtube personality who ended up being the best friend of his prospective literary agent
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Aug 18, 2016 19:48
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Probably the stupidest people in this whole debacle are the ones going on and on about all the good journalism Gawker did, as if it were impossible for any other person or site to do that and not publish sex tapes and rape videos and refuse to take them down when asked by lawyers
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Aug 21, 2016 02:05
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In case you thought there was any room for self-reflection in this final week:quote:Indeed, Gawker’s record for accuracy is excellent. For a site as reckless as it is purported to be, there have been no Jayson Blairs, no conflict-of-interest or plagiarism scandals, no career-ending corrections. rest in piss
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Aug 23, 2016 01:30
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Uhhhhhhhh ever heard of a little thing called 500 Days of Kristin, I didn't see that anywhere else. That whole series was trolling, right? I didn't read any of it
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Aug 23, 2016 01:44
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I wonder how Whitlock feels about Killer Mike calling him out by name in one of his songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoR7GZQPTEc&t=63s
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Oct 9, 2016 23:19
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I'm just gonna pour out another one for The Onion SportsDome and Sports Show with Norm MacDonald instead of Bill Simmons.
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Nov 7, 2016 19:04
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MikeCrotch posted:I still miss Get Out Of My Face. Good times, good times Oh my god, I totally forgot this existed. They made 40 of these! I know because I just watched them all back-to-back last night, and now I'm reading everything in Doc Brooks' voice. It's the perfect distraction from the blasted hellscape that is America's future.
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Nov 10, 2016 16:28
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Any Given Wednesday = Snot Boogie
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Jan 13, 2017 17:53
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Sequels never live up to the hype
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Yeah, you know if this happened to someone from ESPN or Buzzfeed, they would have written 2 or 3 articles on it by now e: small world, that tweet turned into a thread between Dan Szymborski and Lowtax tinstaach fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Jan 25, 2017 |
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https://twitter.com/JimMiller/status/834822693178466304 Jay's coming back home 
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GMG.jpg (and this is technically sports journalism, as I clipped it from Deadspin)
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On the one hand it's irresponsible to speculate, on the other hand it kiiiinda sounds like he got a DUI driving back from the Deadspin Awards.
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Actually if he got booked for anything, the psychos at Barstool would have dug it up by now. Get well soon Drew.
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Dec 11, 2018 00:33
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Reading the comments, folk's: it's good this time
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Dec 19, 2018 20:19
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https://twitter.com/drewmagary/status/1082686376217362433 I hope the GMG union got him some good insurance
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Jan 8, 2019 20:04
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In other longform journalism news, Jon Bois just put out a 55-minute Chart Party 
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Feb 19, 2019 22:29
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oh that's nice, I'm glad they're putting an 'our bad' on the radio so people will stop hounding them for working for absolute scumbags (again) https://twitter.com/BarstoolBigCat/status/1102783914849038336
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Mar 5, 2019 17:58
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Do these guys think that the jaw guards bolted on to everyone's helmets are some obscure fashion statement?
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Apr 19, 2019 14:46
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I want all Jontent to continue increasing in production time and runtime I want his next Pretty Good to be released in May 2020 and take the entire month from start to finish
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May 1, 2019 03:26
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According to Deadspin, it's because Larry went on Lil' Ben's show. Sounds like a pretty sweet gig if, say, your whole brand is based around demanding all the oxygen in the room under the guise of "free speech".
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They should improvise crayon drawings of the jerseys, kind of like those twitter accounts that used Lego figurines to re-enact footage from the Olympics
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