Kay is right and wrong here. The Yankees did rely too much on the home run this season. But that is not over-reliance on analytics; it’s an under-reliance. A main component of analytics is that scoring more runs equals more wins. The Yankees hit more home runs than any team in history, but they scored 25 fewer runs…

The Dodgers lost the Series because Yu Darvish gave up nine runs in less than four innings of work across two games. It’s really fucking hard to win when you’re down 4 or 5-0 from the jump. Dodgers were also just fine in Game 2 until Kenley Jansen blew the save; getting the ball to him in the 9th is the position they…

I also believe a conversation is “reasonable” when someone rehashes the “WHY AREN’T THERE NUMBERS FOR A MAN’S WILL TO WIN?” argument for the millionth time while ignoring the basic concepts of the numbers that people talk about.

*Gary Sanchez comes within about 5 feet of winning the game in a comically small ballpark that the Yankees’ offense is built around*

There are literally zero teams, in baseball or any other major sport, that believe in and practice “analytics only.” That is a nonsense straw man beloved by people like Michael Kay who feel threatened by numbers they don’t understand. If the Yankees were “analytics only,” they would have hired a statistician to manage…

I clicked on that expecting the worst, and the conversation was actually kind of...reasonable?

I think we can make a distinction between using analytics as a tool in the aresenal and using analytics as the only tool in the arsenal. For the Yankees, it was analytics only, which is why there was the over reliance on the home run ball. The Red Sox and Astros do not solely rely on them. The Dodgers, who are still…

Just cut down for prototype purposes. Car makers often do whatever it takes to put a body on the chassis they are testing.

I’m surprised Jalopnik didn’t know about it. It’s hardly a secret and has been roaming around the Midlands for ages.

I was going to make a snarky “must be the new Defender 90" comment, something about how LR has already tarnished the Discovery name (IMO).

I don’t think that’s a real rear door - look at how badly it fits along the rear edge of the window and at the roofline. Looks almost like a bad photoshop job (although I’m assuming that the pic is undoctored). I’m betting it’s a two-door RR that they’re keeping under wraps in advance of a big announcement

Ford and Chevy’s front ends come together like Voltron to form a perfect advertisement for the Ram.

The worrying part is that all remains to be seen. It’s not clear that USMNT is going to evolve but rather just continue more of the same.

I’m a little confused though because the 5.3 liter V8 gets 18 city/22 highway. . . .so why are they trying to push a 4 cylinder for 2 mpg in the city? If the gains were 10+mpg or even 5 I could see it, but who is going to spring for the turbo 4 when the V8 will do practically the same?

I’m a chevy fan.   Man thats an ugly front end.

Especially since we’ve made tropical teams play in the snow numerous times. 

I forgot how bad Tim Howard was during that entire qualification. The first goal that loops over him lands three feet behind the goal line. If he’d moved his feet at all he could have caught it. The second one is a bomb, but still...move your goddamn feet.

I feel you, and you’re not wrong to be generally pessimistic about all things USMNT, but...I wouldn’t compare the current batch of up & comers to any others we’ve had in the past. These kids are playing quality minutes for legitimately good Euro clubs. It is not overstating to say that Pulisic is already a better club…

They lost to the Trinidad and Tobago B team as well. I remember the US talking shit because there was water on the pitch on a tropical island in the Caribbean during the rainy season, as if this was some sort of plot against them. They deserved to be embarrassed.

Meh. As you said, they didn’t learn from their mistakes. USMNT has had up & comers pretty much every cycle. Obviously Pulisic is actually doing it in Europe and isn’t Freddy Adu or even Landon Donovan, but I have full faith that US Soccer will find a way to fuck things up before 2022. I mean, they’ll probably qualify,…