I thought Burneko's description of King in the lede was untoppable until this. +1 post-vomit duckface

Yep, that's the correct answer.

My god that was well written. Mayweather is from my hometown of Grand Rapids, and I always wondered why I never read about him helping out the community beyond throwing a couple bucks at the public schools' sports teams every so often. Now I see. Fuck that guy, and fuck his dirty money.

Thread for sharing pics of happy dogs? Thread for sharing pics of happy dogs.

This really calls for a photoshop contest.

Solid post! It looks like Skip Bayless has the highest ratio of "I/Me/My" to "We/Our/Us" of all the columnists on here. Depending on how you want to operationalize pompous, that ratio could be a pretty good index, i.e. higher scores would indicate that a person used more self-references than group-references and was…

Here, he does little summaries at this link.

Really nice work. Hopefully Theo Epstein can eventually be a shining example of why teams should consider shelling out bigger bucks for top tier GMs; the last two years haven't been pretty, but fixing the Cubs won't be a quick fix.

Thanks, and no offense taken at all - my skin is hardened from years of battle with people who are much smarter than me, and from playing fantasy football with a bunch of whiny lawyers. I'm looking forward to the followup.

Aww, c'mon man, I'd like to think my response came across as a little bit thought more thought out than the original poster, but I agree that the general point can come across as overplayed. In any case, after reading the article, I'm doubling down, because it was really bad.

I don't really agree. Finding a significant omnibus F may give reason to probe further (using t-tests or other single-degree-of-freedom tests), but it doesn't necessarily give you a pass on correcting for multiple comparisons. Even if you find a significant main effect for something (like groups of guys of different…

6. Don't Peel Off Your Beer Labels

I just went to mduzyj.com to browse the prints, but doesn't look like the store is up at the moment. Is there link available to a good gallery of available prints?

I thought these were AT-ST walkers at first glance :)

Is that a Zack Morris phone or a hair dryer?

ETA: Or a camcorder...this is what happens when you comment before scrolling.

A usage correction would definitely be a good idea. Something like EPVA/(time with ball in hand+time guarding guy with the ball) would give a better indicator of a player's value regardless of position. Maybe then we'd see more centers and forwards on this list?

I think QBs in football are a good analogy to use here, at least when looking at offensive performance. QBs handle the ball on just about every offensive play, so you see their performance having a much bigger effect on win probabilities than other positions. This isn't to say you'd want an offense full of nothing but…

Having a beard does indeed save on shaving supplies - I shave about twice a week around my cheeks and neck, and that really increases the longevity of my razor cartridges.

Cool visualizations. I wonder if there's any correlation between per capita college players from a certain county and income levels - there's that old idea that kids are more motivated to get out of really crappy towns (looking at you, Gary and Toledo), so you'd expect more college players per capita from those areas,…

Thanks for the reply, Michael.