Maybe I am misinterpreting your comment, and if so I apologize. But you seem to be (mistakenly) assuming that the "Vegas" win totals were created without the aid of statistical models.

You might be interested in this. http://statsbylopez.com/2014/10/09/on-…

Was really expecting/hoping for:

Funny, one of the reasons I love using jars as drinking glasses (besides the fact that they are giant, so I have to walk to the kitchen to refill my water less often) is that their shape makes them *less* prone to spillage when being carried/picked up/set down/moved to another part of my desk.

I think you're missing my point ... which is totally understandable, as I only vaguely hinted at it.

Just a hunch, but ... I'm guessing the length of MLB games is not normally distributed, unless there are a lot of 3 inning games I'm not hearing about.

They probably meant to say he was the first since 2006 without an incompletion.

"It should be about having enough self-respect not to leave the house in transparent leggings or ratty gym shorts, flip-flops, and a stained T-shirt."

That's like looking at Shaq standing on one side of a room, and Danny DeVito standing on the other, and saying there's no way of knowing which is taller, since they aren't standing back-to-back.

This is a terrible idea. When your graphic is going to be overlaid on live video, you need outlines or shadows (which serve as pseudo-outlines) on letters and shapes, so that if the camera pans over something of similar color, the info doesn't disappear into the background.

The ball was off Gerrard, not the Uruguayan player, so all that matters is that Suarez was onside when the goalkeeper cleared it.

Apologies if I missed that you were making a joke about people wrongly complaining about the onside call.

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OK, fair enough. I hadn't considered that this part might be a positive for some people:

Obviously everybody has their own preferences, and I'm not trying to argue that yours are "wrong". There is no "wrong" here. But I'm genuinely curious here ... why does it bore you?

I'm so sick of reading this criticism, which seems to pop up every other soccer post. So I tried to find a source online saying either are acceptable, but it seems basically impossible to google for, due to how common the words are. Sigh.

Klinsmann's first public comments on the roster indicate that this came down to a simple matter of skill. "I just see some other players slightly ahead of him," Klinsmann said.

Photoshop request: Gawker post with an image of Fonzie jumping the shark, with Fonzie (or the shark) wearing a T-shirt showing a Gawker post about Fonzie jumping the shark.

I will come apple season.

There's always one bite that's all sour cream.

A piece of info doesn't necessarily have to have value to a coach in order for it to have value generally. But, if you want a scenario where the variable is both endogenous and valuable to know ...