You’re right! If there’s anything sports media is obsessed with, it’s relentlessly hyping the achievements of Joey Votto.

It’s sort of weird to accuse the other side of “straw man arguments”, given that this is a comment thread which you started, to rebut claims about sabermetrics that this article does not make.

I’d say that’s a pretty disingenuous reading of their intentions and completely at odds with the way virtually every front office (Jeets likely excepted) actually operates these days. Twitter snark is not where rigorous baseball analysis is happening for the most part.

I sorta see where you’re headed here. HOWEVAH. PECOTA and JAWS are projection systems designed to predict future outcomes based on previous performance, while WAR, OPS+ and wRC+ are designed to measure actual in-season performance. They certainly use most of the same data, but to different ends and with different…

The problem is that too many people still equate criticism of the civilian government and our military policy with disdain for servicemen/servicewomen.

First off the entire world besides America calls it football not soccer.

Actually, “football” has nothing to do with meaning you kick the ball with your feet. It originated as a term for sports played on your feet and has been used to refer to many sports.

*If*, and it’s a huge *if* he really is proposing, it’s not even in the same country, just the same continent. If William had proposed in London, would that mean Harry wouldn’t be able to propose anywhere in the British isles?

That has nothing to do with anything. His playing partner and marker Jordan Spieth AND the official came to the conclusion that he ball was “most likely” in the hazard, and proceeded from there under THE FUCKING RULES. If the ball was found 2 minutes late or two days later is a moot point at that point. If his ball…

If you actually watched the playoffs during their most recent 3 finals, Gasol was the most important Laker. Maybe he wasn’t the best, but the whole frontcourt dominated almost every team those 3 years. When Bynum, Odom and Gasol were healthy they controlled every game. It’s too bad Odom and Bynum were headcases and…

I swear the Diamondbacks are trolling baseball fans with their uniforms. They’ve been unbelievably ugly for a few years, now.

What is going on with the D-Back unis, though? Those are gross.

So the strategy is drill him in the back, to not start a rally?

It was not a playoff game. It was a late-season game (9/14/08). The game was moved from Houston because of damage to Minute Maid Park from Hurricane Ike.

It wasn’t a playoff game. Thrown on Sept. 14

In Drew’s defense, Trump did lose the popular vote by almost 3 million votes.

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Show me a nice comeback, regardless if its table tennis, and its a feel-good story.

You mean a friendly, right? A friendy sounds like a awkward handjob from someone you have an otherwise platonic relationship with.