RIP Allende

Well, when you know that you have the best players in the world, there’s no reason to have to go out and prove it.

Since my grandfather has passed away let me give what would have been his analysis of the game: "This is the thanks we get for saving their asses in WWI and WWII."

tom Brady -made out with a young, male relative.

Ok only half of those things matter.

I bet she didn’t see this coming. 

Police take victims seriously. Police take diligent notes and follow-up on leads. Police test most rape kits.

Five bucks says the Patriots knew about this. Five more says the Raiders didn't.

This isn’t what the reporters meant when they asked him if Big Ben’s winning ways rubbed off on him.

I think I can sue AB for assault after reading that text message. It definitely gave me brain damage.

Steelers fans like him again now

I am going to say something then contradict myself.

I look forwards to seeing how this behaves with an inch of snow on it and/or versus birdshit. Should be interesting as both of these apply torque to the base of the wiper - something the rotational versions are designed to handle and/or counter. This would be diverted from linear action and could derail.

This is “neoliberalism” in a nutshell, and it has infected every aspect of life from grocery shopping, to education, to medical care. 

538 was also pretty spot on in 2016. They gave Trump a reasonable 1 in 3 chance, where all the other poll aggregator sorts did not. 

PECOTA was legitimately part of revolutionizing baseball. Even if the 08/12 elections were favored for Obama, on a state-by-state level he was nonetheless impressive.

Slow down there, hoss...Nate was a very big player in baseball analytics (see Baseball Prospectus, long before he moved into predicting elections), which allowed him to start 538.

I don’t like to whine about analytics but I think there’s some dishonesty about what purpose analytics and the whole “Moneyball” ethos really serves. Analytics guys pretend it’s about finding the “best” way to win, and really it’s about finding the most “efficient” way to win. Like, you read Moneyball and see the…

I mean, not to be pedantic, but giving him a hyphen would technically only be one stroke.

Go fuck yourself, you obfuscating asshole