+1 Except When It’s Time to Extend Their Benefits for Being Heroes and Doing What Few Would Do

Kind of shocked by this.

“Mostly Bad for also giving supremely talented rapists and murderers a second chance.”

Psst: Its this one.  

The reason real he and Ben Roethlisberger didn’t get along was because they were too similar.

Awesome!

Steelers fans like him again now

“Luck based monetization in video games is in no way related to gambling! Let us put an emphasis on this by adding literal casinos to our games.”

I have nothing snarky to say. I’m in absolute awe of these people fighting for their rights in such a smart way and effective way. I really do hope they win....but I’m not holding my breath.

“It’s all just a ruse to cover for cheap billionaires.” Bingo. I like Moneyball, both the movie and the book, but the thing that always bothered me about the framing was a hard scrabble, poor franchise just scraping by and forced to dig to find undervalued assets. The A’s could have afforded to keep Jason Giambi, and…

The AZ Fall League is kicking off out here.

We had to destroy the village in order to save it.

“I get the feeling that none of these fuckers worried about the “future of baseball” actually likes watching baseball. Anyway, this was good.”

I recently moved from a small city with a popular minor-league baseball team to an even smaller city without one, and in all the things I calculated about making the decision to move, I didn’t realize how much I’d miss the simple pleasure of getting off of work, saying “fuck it, I’m not doing anything else with the…

And he’s spent the last three years turning into the sort of pundit he was supposed to upend - anecdotal and subject to whims and storylines rather than actual polling numbers.

I don’t like to whine about analytics but I think there’s some dishonesty about what purpose analytics and the whole “Moneyball” ethos really serves. Analytics guys pretend it’s about finding the “best” way to win, and really it’s about finding the most “efficient” way to win. Like, you read Moneyball and see the…

Ideally we can get rid of the major league games too. Just analyze the swings of each team’s hitters, the spin rate of each team’s pitchers, and declare a champion.

The fact that FiveThirtyEight is even a thing will never cease to blow my mind. Nate Silver built a goddamn empire out of correctly predicting the most obvious election in a generation at a time when common logic was viewed as some mystical commodity (see also: Gladwell, Malcolm).

Two thoughts competing in my head:

Old guys have been saying analytics will kill baseball, and I think even they would agree they were talking metaphorically. This dude is literally advocating for less baseball games because analytics don’t even need games to get the numbers. So I guess all the old guys yelling at clouds were kinda right?  This asshole…