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It's easier for the Marlins since they can just sell players if they start to win too many games.
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Any sort of statistically-minded projection system is going to cluster teams toward the mean. I think those low-end projections are much more likely than the NL being without a single 90-win team. I mean, take a look at the standings projected there: Apologies if I gently caress up my subtraction and get a number of losses wrong. NL West 1. Dodgers (85-77) 2t. Diamondbacks (84-78) 2t. Giants (84-78) 4. Rockies (80-82) 5. Padres (76-86) NL Central 1. Reds (86-76) 2. Cardinals (84-78) 3t. Pirates (80-82) 3t. Brewers (80-82) 5. Cubs (78-84) NL East 1t. Nationals (88-74) 1t. Braves (88-74) 3. Phillies (83-79) 4. Mets (74-88) 5. Marlins (68-94) AL West 1. Angels (90-72) 2. Rangers (89-73) 3. Athletics (82-80) 4. Mariners (74-88) 5. Astros (64-98) AL Central 1. Tigers (94-68) 2t. White Sox (80-82) 2t. Royals (80-82) 4. Indians (75-87) 5. Twins (70-92) AL East 1t. Blue Jays (85-77) 1t. Rays (85-77) 1t. Yankees (85-77) 4. Red Sox (84-78) 5. Orioles (75-87) So, in the National League we have the Dodgers winning the NL West with 85 wins, one game above both the Giants and D-backs, who are then part of a three-way tie for the 2nd Wild Card. Four teams--the Phillies, Pirates, Brewers, and Rockies--are within four games. Meanwhile, the Nationals and Braves are potentially playing a one-game playoff to determine who wins the division and who's forced into the lovely wildcard round. The Pirates go 80-82 and I kill myself. The AL is even more insane, as it features a three-way tie for the AL East title--which, mind you, really matters now that there's a dumb wildcard play-in. But at least there's a consolation prize, as the 2nd Wild Card goes to one of those three teams as well. The Red Sox are one game back of this madness; I believe if they'd won another game, the rules of baseball require a Fatal Four-Way match to determine the division champion. Overall, two divisions finish with a tie for 1st, two more have only a one-game difference, and the NL Central is decided by just two games. Also the Tigers win the AL Central by 14.  So basically what I'm saying is that we should pray to Base Ba'al that Dave Cameron's predictions are correct (except the Pirates win two more games). e: 20 of 30 teams win between 80 and 90 games, inclusive. Mornacale fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Mar 28, 2013 |
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We interrupt your story of weird leather fetishes and WAR additions to bring you this, from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Bernie Miklasz. On the Adam Wainwright extension:A guy who's smart enough to know better posted:We can talk about Wainwright the pitcher and his value on the mound. Generally speaking, I believe that all of the “good in the clubhouse” talk is overblown. We sportswriters tend to whip up these narratives and pump them until the point of absurdity. But in this case, the intangibles do matter when assessing Wainwright’s value to this team. "People talking about clubhouse chemistry are dumb and it's a dumb narrative. Now let me tell you about the value of Adam Wainwright's clubhouse intangibles."
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What do you guys think of these video baseball cards of bloggers MLB The Show is tweeting out? Couple of names I recognize- Joe Sheehan Jon Morosi
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ZerodotJander posted:What do you guys think of these video baseball cards of bloggers MLB The Show is tweeting out? I loving love that they apparently just took a bunch of random baseball people - some national writers, some beat writers, some bloggers - and put them in their game. Did they tell these people first or what? Also loving their social media strategy of replying to basically anyone who talks about the game. Sure, a lot of people talk about all the time, but I imagine social media whatever-er isn't a particularly exciting job and it shows "good interaction" with their demographic or whatever.
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Somehow this utterly forgettable SB nation post http://www.sbnation.com/2013/3/28/4155656/heat-bulls-white-people-so-white-oh-my-lord became a flashpoint for "how come there's no WHITE entertainment television" idiots. Like, way beyond the usual "don't read the comments" garden variety racism.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Somehow this utterly forgettable SB nation post Oh please do read the comments because a bunch of twitter miscreants decided to defend the author by trolling the comments with ROLL TIDE PAWWL.
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If that column was a Something Awful front page article people would either chortle or call it dumb and move on, because that's exactly the style it's written in. The Internet is still so sheltered and dumb.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Somehow this utterly forgettable SB nation post Mad heat fans.txt
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ElwoodCuse posted:Somehow this utterly forgettable SB nation post 2770 comments. My god. "I'm white and offended. Not as a white man, but as a human being."
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Mar 29, 2013 15:59
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Attention White People: Shut The gently caress Up.
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haljordan posted:Attention White People: Shut The gently caress Up. Especially Doug Gottlieb
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haljordan posted:Attention White People: Shut The gently caress Up. ElwoodCuse posted:Especially Doug Gottlieb I feel like this should be the slogan of America or something.
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Grant Brisbee linked to this post from another SB blog this morning that's a response to the comments insanity, have some more  http://www.bavarianfootballworks.com/2013/3/29/4159344/going-dark
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I think we have to call Dennis Latta and revoke that Saltiest Tears award
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the original SBN article was lazy, unfunny, and incredibly stupid but definitely not worthy of the reaction it has received
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Yeah calm down white folks, you still run everything in the western world.
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leokitty posted:Grant Brisbee linked to this post from another SB blog this morning that's a response to the comments insanity, have some more Woof. What a clusterfuck. (Also, I'm obviously not making any accusations, but I find it funny that it's the German Bundesliga blog that took offense at the article.)
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"But I wanna be oppressed tooooooo!" -white people
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zakharov posted:"But I wanna be oppressed tooooooo!" -white people After seeing how outraged some white folk get in traffic court over a speeding ticket (when they were guilty as gently caress), I would looooooooove to have them go through the poo poo minorities have to deal with on a daily basis on the road.
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I don't understand anything about racism, other than the misled belief that it's when people mock/hate others for their skin colour, rather than systematic oppression/privilege. Therefore, I don't want to raise my children in a world where a white person can't even walk down the street without getting told "have you ever noticed, white guys walk like this."
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swizz posted:the original SBN article was lazy, unfunny, and incredibly stupid but definitely not worthy of the reaction it has received Yeah basically this, though I do think "goofy-rear end fan photos" should be something that is embraced more fully, because it seems like a potential goldmine.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Yeah basically this, though I do think "goofy-rear end fan photos" should be something that is embraced more fully, because it seems like a potential goldmine. And let's face it, stodgy old white guys jumping up and down and yelling is always humorous.
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swizz posted:the original SBN article was lazy, unfunny, and incredibly stupid but definitely not worthy of the reaction it has received If Jon Bois had written it, people would have laughed or not given a gently caress, or he would have properly snarked back at them. But it was another dude from Progressive Boink, so it's a tragedy.
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haljordan posted:And let's face it, stodgy old white guys jumping up and down and yelling is always humorous. Oh absolutely. I didn't find the article itself funny at all, but I found the picture itself pretty hilarious and the outrage unbelievably overblown.
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Badfinger posted:If Jon Bois had written it, people would have laughed or not given a gently caress, or he would have properly snarked back at them. But it was another dude from Progressive Boink, so it's a tragedy. Because I'm the world's biggest idiot I've been reading through the comments on and off all day; It seems the big influx of crazy white dudes happened because it was linked to from Yahoo's home page?
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Guess who picked up on the story?  http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/03/29/the_polarization_of_america_on_display_in_ncaa_tournament_coverage
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Yahoo commentors are, even by the standards of internent comments, exceptionally crazy and racist so that would make sense.
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leokitty posted:Because I'm the world's biggest idiot I've been reading through the comments on and off all day; It seems the big influx of crazy white dudes happened because it was linked to from Yahoo's home page? Yep. That's exactly what happened. As an SB Nation contributor though, I want to know what the gently caress the author used to get the story noticed via tags and whatnot  I'm pretty sure that's how the linking works anyway; there's a button in the article editor that says "promote beyond community" that you can click, and it means that sometimes via tag and summary linking can occur. As an example, one of my pieces got put on SI.com that way once.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Yep. That's exactly what happened. As an SB Nation contributor though, I want to know what the gently caress the author used to get the story noticed via tags and whatnot The author is a fairly big deal on twitter.
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The Heat lost to the Bulls, boy their fans are old white people, god I hate old white people. Thankfully, there are no old white people in Miami, no sir.
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Frot Lesnar posted:The author is a fairly big deal on twitter. Oh okay then. The whole thing is just weird though. Guy writes stupid and unfunny but ultimately harmless blog post about goofy old white dudes at a Bulls game and now all of a sudden Rush loving Limbaugh is weighing in.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Oh okay then. The whole thing is just weird though. Guy writes stupid and unfunny but ultimately harmless blog post about goofy old white dudes at a Bulls game and now all of a sudden Rush loving Limbaugh is weighing in. Why do you hate fat people?
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That article would never be written if it was about the rich old black people who go to NBA games. Really makes you think. (That's because there are no rich old black people  )
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Oh okay then. The whole thing is just weird though. Guy writes stupid and unfunny but ultimately harmless blog post about goofy old white dudes at a Bulls game and now all of a sudden Rush loving Limbaugh is weighing in. Great, now I gotta make sure my opinion is the exact opposite of that fat junkie shithead.
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Frot Lesnar posted:Why do you hate fat people? Oh god I didn't even think about that. 
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Peanut President posted:(That's because there are no rich old black people According to what I've heard on the internet, they undergo a transformation and turn into old white people. It happened to Michael Jackson.
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Frot Lesnar posted:Why do you hate closeted gay people?
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