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No Safe Word posted:No one can convince me that Randall Cunningham wasn't the greatest quarterback of all time, I know what I saw. Cunningham was QB Eagles and, well, I know what I saw too.
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http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/sabermetrics-moneyball-stat-geeks-are-ruining-sports-092211 Goodnight, folks!
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BackInTheUSSR posted:http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/sabermetrics-moneyball-stat-geeks-are-ruining-sports-092211 Goodnight, folks! Welcome to last page!
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# ? Sep 23, 2011 22:56 |
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Oh rats I did a link search and it hadn't been linked to
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# ? Sep 24, 2011 06:39 |
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Bill Simmons needs to stop referencing sabermetric stats until he can stop turning them into TV analogies.quote:Q: The Grantland staff's buying/selling gimmick (described in your Week 2 column) reminded me of something I've started to do recently: using the concept of WAR (wins above replacement) in all aspects of my life. For instance, when my girlfriend asked how a softball game went and I told her "high WAR" to sum up a great night at the plate with solid defense. But what I've found is even better is using WAR to describe the people around me, e.g., My buddy Alex's old girlfriend was uncool and replacement level or 1.0 WAR at best, but his current girlfriend is a 7.5, that's MVP level and he should hang on to this one. Thoughts? hcreight fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Sep 24, 2011 |
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Moose Bigelow posted:Another Moneyball is stupid article from Mr. Oozing pumpkin. I'm pasting it so you don't give him the hits he wants. Statistics and numbers are for nerds . Now it just needs some sentences on how intangibles are more important than anything even though you can't define them.
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# ? Sep 24, 2011 17:10 |
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https://twitter.com/!/richarddeitsch/status/117703321946570752quote:Deadspin announced today at #bwb4 that they have met with Jay Mariotti about writing a sports media column for the site. Deadspin is trying to be the sportswriting version of Al Qaeda at this point
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# ? Sep 24, 2011 22:00 |
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Jay Mariotti? Deadspin? I honestly don't see what's in this for Jay.
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# ? Sep 24, 2011 23:07 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Jay Mariotti? Deadspin? A paycheck
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# ? Sep 24, 2011 23:11 |
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There are no depths Deadspin can sink to that will surprise me at this point.
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# ? Sep 24, 2011 23:24 |
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hcreight posted:Bill Simmons needs to stop referencing sabermetric stats until he can stop turning them into TV analogies. Also he's wrong because Night Court owned
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# ? Sep 25, 2011 16:14 |
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Sash! posted:Cunningham was QB Eagles and, well, I know what I saw too. Bob Nelson was the greatest defensive lineman of all time. I know what I saw. (Just got back from Moneyball. Best baseball nerd movie ever. )
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# ? Sep 26, 2011 04:28 |
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hcreight posted:Bill Simmons needs to stop referencing sabermetric stats until he can stop turning them into TV analogies. Simmons needs to stop shoehorning things into tv adn movie analogies in general. Though this will probably drop the volume of his output by quite a bit.
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# ? Sep 26, 2011 04:56 |
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MorningView posted:There are no depths Deadspin can sink to that will surprise me at this point. Why 9/11 Needs To Happen Again Except A Million Times Bigger Also Some Musings on Peyton Manning by AJ Daulerio
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# ? Sep 26, 2011 06:01 |
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Toffile posted:Simmons needs to stop shoehorning things into tv adn movie analogies in general. This is just like the time on Jimmy Kimmel where Billy Zabka
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# ? Sep 26, 2011 06:42 |
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I would like to read an article about the mythical man who is both a fan of deadspin and interested in what Jay Mariotti has to say about sports.
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# ? Sep 26, 2011 06:43 |
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I'm over halfway through the ESPN oral history, Those Guys Have All The Fun, and it's a pretty good read so far. I'd recommend it if you're at all interested in sports journalism; it's a little undercooked in spots, but it gives an interesting look into how ESPN came to be where they are today. There's one anecdote that just kills me, though. They asked David Halberstam to write an introduction to a book they were producing based on the SportsCentury series, and he surprised them when he came back with an 80+ page, 47k-word treatise on sports in the 20th century. Because it came in late and Halberstam was more or less working on his own, they'd only allotted something like 5 pages for the introduction. They ended up cutting the entire piece down to under 1000 words. I'd kill to read the original version of that. Halberstam rules.
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# ? Sep 26, 2011 17:38 |
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Does Twitter count as journalism? Because if so, insufferable douchebag Jeff Passan frustrates the hell out of me because he's really quite intelligent, but he so frequently takes the lazy route and just churns out bullshit. FairGame fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Sep 26, 2011 |
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FairGame posted:Does Twitter count as journalism? Because if so, insufferable douchebag Jeff Suppan has a series of tweets condemning John Lackey for divorcing his cancer-stricken wife. did you mean jeff suppan, terrible pitcher, or jeff passan, smarmy bullshit artist?
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# ? Sep 26, 2011 17:52 |
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:did you mean jeff suppan, terrible pitcher, or jeff passan, smarmy bullshit artist? gently caress. I used both. I meant Passan, the SU graduate that does his best to make all Newhouse kids look like a bunch of smarmy fucks (which isn't far from the truth, but still!)
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# ? Sep 26, 2011 17:56 |
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Passan is one of those MVP by Fangraphs WAR guys I think. That is the laziest.
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# ? Sep 26, 2011 17:59 |
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He is also the guy who goes back and corrects his articles and admits when he's wrong, and sportswriting could use some of those guys.
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# ? Sep 27, 2011 00:21 |
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The broken bones posted:He is also the guy who goes back and corrects his articles and admits when he's wrong, and sportswriting could use some of those guys. When I wrote him a note about there being no Game 7 of the 2003 World Series when he wrote this abysmal Josh Beckett Is The Best Postseason Pitcher Ever article it was fixed with a correction note, I assume I wasn't the only nerd to point that out
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# ? Sep 27, 2011 00:30 |
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FairGame posted:gently caress. I used both. I meant Passan, the SU graduate that does his best to make all Newhouse kids look like a bunch of smarmy fucks (which isn't far from the truth, but still!) He was there when I was
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# ? Sep 27, 2011 00:33 |
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FairGame posted:Does Twitter count as journalism? Because if so, insufferable douchebag Jeff That's a lovely thing to do but hardly anyone's business.
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# ? Sep 27, 2011 15:21 |
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Frangraph's best article this year is not about baseball http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/in-sickness-and-in-health/
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toadee posted:Frangraph's best article this year is not about baseball http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/in-sickness-and-in-health/ Granted what Lackey is doing sounds like Newt Gingrich levels of douche but that article is hilarious in a spergy-way.
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# ? Sep 27, 2011 22:09 |
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I feel like there should be a website called LOOK AT THIS loving DAN SHAUGHNESSY COLUMNquote:Distressing day, that’s for sure
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# ? Sep 28, 2011 03:43 |
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Crazy Ted posted:I feel like there should be a website called LOOK AT THIS loving DAN SHAUGHNESSY COLUMN This...this is delicious.
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# ? Sep 28, 2011 03:46 |
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Crazy Ted posted:I feel like there should be a website called LOOK AT THIS loving DAN SHAUGHNESSY COLUMN sort of like this? although i'm not sure it's as hostile as you want(or shank deserves)
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# ? Sep 28, 2011 06:26 |
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We'd be hard-pressed to find a worse writer for a national publication than Shaughnessy, especially now that Mariotti's no longer in journalism.
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# ? Sep 28, 2011 09:17 |
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Someone should just email him a huge picture of that ESPN Boston Magazine.
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# ? Sep 28, 2011 14:06 |
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This popped up on my google news and I clicked on it, ugh: http://crosscut.com/2011/10/05/seattle-mariners/21379/Adrian-Beltre:-No-thanks-from-Seattle,-the-one-city-you-let-down/ quote:Psssst! Beltre! Hey, thanks from Seattleites . . . For nothing. Beltre hit 3 home runs in one playoff game, why didn't you do this for us, Adrian? You committed 10 errors one season at third! Ugh, I dunno who Mike Henderson is, but he used to write for the Seattle PI, the Times and the Everett Herald. Good thing he's nowhere near one of those publications now.
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# ? Oct 6, 2011 05:11 |
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seiferguy posted:This popped up on my google news and I clicked on it, ugh: It comes off as very whiny but this could have been salvageable if the writer linked Beltre's lackluster offensive performance as a Mariner to the many other lovely acquisitions of hitters that never panned out. Scott Spiezio should be the start.
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# ? Oct 6, 2011 05:54 |
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Not even kidding, I've had two classes with Henderson. Awesome teacher, but...shiiit, man.
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# ? Oct 6, 2011 06:22 |
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I don't really know if this counts as sports journalism because I don't give anyone a blowjob for playing the right way, but: http://www.mrdestructo.com/2011/10/seven-games-in-september-part-i.html The thing I posted in that thread that one time last week has been cleaned up, fact-checked, de-adverbed and generally made a lot more readable, and I will now stop posting about it forever.
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# ? Oct 6, 2011 20:12 |
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Go to the 8-minute mark and watch the magic happen.
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# ? Oct 7, 2011 08:39 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Go to the 8-minute mark and watch the magic happen. They really need to put Finebaum on Around the Horn sometime.
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# ? Oct 7, 2011 08:58 |
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I love 'sports journalism.'
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