Or regression to the mean

though it’s hard to get a clear theory about why unmarried women in China can legally adopt but not give birth on their own

If you went to a good big-name school and choose an in-demand computer or finance major

Hopefully, this will eventually get solved by Harvey himself. At the end of the day, whether or not he keeps pitching this year is a decision that only he should be empowered to make, and whatever he decides to do will be the right thing for him, so long as he’s making it freely and with a full awareness of what might…

Berahino is under contract until 2017. If they can’t get him to sign a new deal, his value tanks next summer compared to this one. Historically, teams do not pay nearly as much for a player when they have the leverage to say “we could wait another year and he’ll leave on a free.” This was the time to sell for max…

It’s not about changing basic human nature, it’s about realizing there is more money to be made by thinking past your first instinct. If you take your approach to business, it gets you fired. It’s something I can’t shake. I’m a Fangraphs reader, and am used to being able to speak rationally about baseball roster…

Seriously though, if you don’t recognize the transfer window as the man-baby/sportsman ego circle jerk it is, you haven’t been paying attention long. Craigslist buyers/sellers are probably 10000x more rational than a football club chairman who feels “dissed”

West Brom have turned themselves into a premier league mainstay

someone offers me $10, then 15, then 18, then 22? There’s a good chance they’ve pissed me off, and not only will I want the full price I might not sell it to them at all on prinicle.

I guess I’m just so used to the corporate sponsorship and borderline fraudulent debt financing in the states - I’m an SF Giants fan. My team financed their stadium privately, but the debt on the stadium is laughable and just makes it so that they pay fewer taxes. They rake in insane corporate deals on the stadium…

Sponsorship and licensing are. New stadiums are like money magnets for sponsors, or at least that’s how it is in America. Maybe it’s not true for Everton.

Uh, that looks like a frighteningly stable top 4 to me - now that City has arrived, there is at most one spot each year that could fall to the likes of Liverpool/Southampton/Tottenham. And that one spot basically hinges on a fuckup by one of the big 4. Until one of the just outside the CL clubs finds a way to spend…

Tottenham managed to stay level-ish after Bale though, and create new valuable assets to be sold, creating a sustainable system. (for the time being at least) It’s usually safer to bet on many young players than to bet that your one good young CB is going to retain his ability/not get hurt/choose to walk when his…

So, on one hand, yeah you’ve got to collect crosses. On the other, that cross going in on it’s own is hardly expected, nor do I think that the crosser intended to put it in the net.

I’ll allow it. If my good friend Mark Twain knows what he’s talking about, all German words are made up anyways.

I never understood tournament design that incentives teams to act like this and the resulting dickishness towards a team acting totally rationally.

I feel like this happens to better sweeper keepers pretty often. Their nature makes them aggressive enough to get caught out. Even Courtois was caught last season.

Is the HPV vaccine most effective when young? I always thought that the reasoning was more along the lines of “you have to have it before you start having sex, after is too late.” A quick look at wikipedia says that they are recommending it to older (over 26) people too just in case they managed to avoid the HPV…

Yeah, my stance on abortions is generally along the lines of “kinda wish you didn’t, but if you do, please go to a doctor, and at least consider donating the tissue to science.” People that are against abortions that hard don’t consider that the alternative where people try to DIY abort is terrifying, and the tissue…

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