This is fantastic, reading gave me insight into a world I know nothing about. Amazing work!
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yeah it would be a shame if players were paid market value
Says a fan in a country where the big four sports are essentially four monopolies that continue to squeeze taxpayer money for dubious financial sports stadium deals.
Just a reminder that all 21 Houston mosques were open.... Strange they could still help and this poopstain couldn’t
From the text: In 2014, Tokyo issued permits for 142,417 new housing units. In contrast, the entire state of California — which has three times the population of Tokyo — issued permits for only 83,657 new housing units
I always post this when we talk about housing prices in the bay area. It basically says that the bay area limits building new houses because of NIMBY regulations which sends prices soaring. In comparison Tokyo had the same level of growth, but nowhere near the same level of housing costs increase because it simply let…
Buddy shhhh it’s ok. My comments were in reply to another comment comparing Kyrie’s trade to the neymar move from Barcelona. My point was exactly that Kyrie is not the same kind of transendental player neymar is. That he’s not even a top ten player in the league whereas neymar is probably the third best soccer player…
I mean neymar did as a 21 year old for Brazil and so did LeBron, so if we’re making the comparison..... Yes, yes I do
fine yes, I was being pedantic
well except Neymar is probably the 3rd, maybe 4th best player in the world (for evidence see the last world cup where he was obviously the best Brazilian player). There are really only two teams where you would perhaps put him as the second best player (Madrid and Barca). He is the kind of player that can change a…
1 in a 1000 people in the world are 6 foot or taller. That is reasonably the only people that have a chance.
I’ve lost track of where I said this, but just a reminder that only around 1 in a 1000 people in the world are 6 foot or taller. That means I get 1000 people to take a crack at hitting a homer before you get even one person that might have a reasonable chance of reaching the rim.
yep I am, sorry!!!
Cricket buddy, there are bat sports everywhere. VERY few people tall enough to dunk. Something like 1 in 1000 people are 6 feet or taller in the world. That is your starting calculation before we talk about dunking. Before you get all “there are 5'9' people that can dunk” let’s be clear even 6 foot tall NBA players…
Your point was that cricketers have “warning track power”, my point was that they actually could hit it further if they hit a baseball, it’s the ball not the player and to think that they couldn’t is folly. I drew from my experience having played both. I will say that hitting a live-ball-non-BP baseball thrown from a…
Here’s the thing, every person you eliminate from homering because of athleticism ain’t dunking either unless they happen to be 7 foot tall, which is less than 1 in 10,000 people.
Come out to rec league softball, there are dozens of people out there that can jack a softball home run over a 200 foot fence and that’s just a bunch of average joes in the park. Not hard to imagine them hitting a baseball an extra 100 feet. Ain’t none of them dunking.
having played both that’s because the cricket ball is harder to hit far. In high school I could hit easily hit a baseball 300 feet, I couldn’t hit a cricket ball anywhere near that distance. I assure you a professional cricketer could hit a baseball home run. They are just as strong and gifted with just as much…
Less than 1 in 10,000 people are 6 10. I just need to find two people in 10,000 that can hit a homer for that to be a terrible example.