Doesn’t matter how you do it. If it’s unauthorized access to data then it’s a hack.

“Our’s is not to wonder why. Our is but to do and believe every word uttered by brands and billionaires.” - Darren Rovell, “Charge of the Lite Beer Endorsement,” 2010

The crossover event, which spanned a number of DC publications, is still remembered fondly

That’s certainly 100% true in terms of Wall Street.

Yeah, it boils down to the World Series =/= the baseball season. One very exciting week and a half of baseball doesn’t make up for 6 months of a shitty game that an increasing number of people don’t watch (including yourself).

“I’m balloonin’ my ass off up here, I thought that was obvious!”

Pace of play is an interesting one. Getting players to play faster is, in my opinion, not at all something that needs to be dealt with. Other than the occasional glacially slow matchup between a slow pitcher and a batter with a very long routine between pitches, I’ve never been bored by players on the field taking…

As stupid as the specifics of Werth’s rant are (nerds! computers on the field! MIT grads who never played!), I think his overall point is different from the reactionaries during the sabermetric revolution. He’s not saying bunts are better for helping win games than home runs, or that advanced metrics are preventing…

Came here to say this.

Also, I just noticed: why is AV club regularly reporting on fucking ASMR videos? Has it really sunk that low into being a click farm? Now I’m depressed.

Yeah, I fucking hate ASMR. All the whispering and the clicking or whatever sound of saliva inside their mouth just annoy the crap out of me.

It never ceases to amaze me how every time Bill Belichick opens his mouth, he reveals himself to just be such an enormous asshole.

That’s not remotely true. Private equity dipshit are buying both dead companies and profitable legacy papers. They then try to make the whole thing profitable despite a) the bad assets continuing to hemorrhage money and b) the good assets no longer being as good since the owners just take the debt they incurred in…

Not only that, the LA Times had been profitable for years when taken by itself apart from the rest of the company. Now that it’s finally not a part of the horrific private equity nightmare of tronc, it might actually be able to grow again.

If you think this is impressive, just wait until you see what he does against the Rays and the Marlins.

Smart teams trade valuable assets for two non-prospects and cash?

That picture was my avatar for a long, long time. Sigh...

Writing something like “the best pitcher in the league right now” as a superlative meaning “the pitcher who has pitched the best in this season so far” is a pretty common rhetorical device. I feel like you’re being deliberately obtuse.

Literally no one other than you has said anything about how Scherzer’s career matches up against deGrom’s career. No shit Scherzer has had a better career than deGrom. You are creating strawmen and cherry picking stats (projection for the rest of the season? Seriously? Do you even understand how statistical projection…

I honestly have no idea why there’s such enmity for England. I’m not a fan or anything, but it’s hard for me to muster this much dislike for a team so well known for fucking up. Maybe it’s the Mets fan in me.