Sam Hinkie has got nothing on Beane.

For whatever reason, the repeated soundclip of “Yeeaaah! NICE SHOT!” is slaying me. We should add this to every NBA broadcast.

You didn’t refer to the men’s team; you referred to the US. Please forgive me for not understanding that the words you used weren’t actually the words you meant. I didn’t mean to anger you.

Fine, he merely mangled the interpretation of the survey, not the survey itself. That’s the point being made here. You’re so eager to whip out your calculator that you basically missed the entire point of the article.

No, the issue is with Rovell. He latched on to a small cross section of the survey and touted it both as meaningful and significant in order to generate a talking point.

This right here is one of the problems with media. You’re saying he mangled a survey but he really didn’t (JD Power might have).

The real question is: Was it J.D. Power or was it the unnamed mysterious “Associates” acting from the shadows?

Can we compromise with: JD Power might have an issue, but also there’s a problem with Rovell being either too hasty or too naive about really basic statistical ideas to draw accurate inferences?

Although I hate the tenor of this article, the counterpoint you raise isn’t exactly directly attacking its logic.

True. If it means the team he is being traded to doesn’t have to put up as much today as they would have had to yesterday, he is already helping out his new team.

I guess you don’t know locally that you can’t trade players for draft picks, though.

Well the worst possible night for the Rangers. Doesn’t matter much to Darvish.

Pretty convincing win if you ask me. Yeah, I know, the score is 2-1 and it took a late goal, but USA had over 70% possession and was clearly in control of the match. I don’t even watch that much soccer and have seen that same pattern play out repeatedly between two mismatched opponents.

Yeah man, fuck the garbage ass Marlins with their 46-53 record.

A better way to describe both the US and Mexico is like they are the good teams in a mid-major basketball conference. No threat to win it all, but good enough to get to the sweet 16 or elite 8 if things go their way. International soccer has a similar exponential curve to college basketball in that the top handful of…

Garcia later

There are 211 nations in FIFA.

2002 just called, wondering what you were doing the past 15 years besides ignoring the results of its World Cup.

Digits?

Those dogs are up for adoption. Sadly, there appears to be a culture where the father isn’t involved. I stopped watching when I realized the Puppy Bowl was the only way out for those dogs.