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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:If you had told me that my favorite sports feature of the year, thus far, would be a Grantland article about the world's best juggler I would have laughed at you, but here we are. This was a fine read. It's also an article that would have very different (and much, much poorer) before YouTube.
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I actually love these sorts of articles. That and the pool one were really interesting reads. Thanks for posting it.
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I mentioned before in this thread and elsewhere that I was a regular writer at SB Nation. Today I got a call from my boss, who had to deliver bad news of budget cuts and slashed hours. Guess who was the odd man out 
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Benne posted:I mentioned before in this thread and elsewhere that I was a regular writer at SB Nation. That sucks dude. Good luck finding a new gig!
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"We can dump around $7 million into Ezra Klein's vanity project, but we can't afford to pay our piddly news desk guys." Yup, sure makes sense 
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They have to pay for Matt Yglesias' all new hideously mauve wardrobe and his infantile understanding of economics!  (Sorry, Benne. )
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I don't know what the policy is for posting content behind ESPN's Insider paywall, but if it's allowed, this is possibly the worst poo poo I've ever seen. Synopsis if you can't get at it: We totally have an algorithm that puts a value on clubhouse chemistry in terms of the number of wins it creates/prevents. Oh, and clubhouse chemistry is influenced by a variety of factors including "the mixing of the races is bad." It's utter poo poo, and while I saw a lot of you on Twitter also calling it poo poo, people may have missed it.
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FairGame posted:I don't know what the policy is for posting content behind ESPN's Insider paywall, We used to have a whole thread dedicated to nothing but "here's an insider only article, give me the full text" which has since gone away. That said, your link is fine, since non-insiders will not see the content.
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I don't necessarily find it difficult to believe that a mixture of races in a clubhouse could be correlated to lower "chemistry", given that it might indicate significant language barriers and that a lot of MLB players are racist. It's just that the lesson to take from that information is "we need to provide better resources to integrate players of different cultures, and reiterate a no-tolerance policy on racism of any form," not "well, let's try to get only white players." e: To be clear, I don't have Insider so I can't comment on the specific methodology or results of this specific study.
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Mornacale posted:e: To be clear, I don't have Insider so I can't comment on the specific methodology or results of this specific study. Based on this blog post by baseball researcher Phil Birnbaum that Groucho Marxist linked on twitter, it's pretty clear there is absolutely no actual methodology in the first place. Nowhere does the ESPN article list data sources, regression methods (although it's probably babby's first linear regression), or anything even approaching statistical rigor. Leokitty also pointed out on Twitter that the article was written by an employee of the Parthenon Group, which is a headhunting group for CEOs/executives. It's pretty clear this is essentially a stealth ad for Parthenon touting a so-called expertise at quantifying intangibles -- which makes their unsourced and idiotic conclusions even more vile. I've absolutely had it with analytics becoming a cargo cult for shills and morons to get clickbait, especially for vaguely coded racist claptrap like that.
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That piece is in The Magazine, and unless they change the policy, they'll open it up eventually if you want to waste your time with it. It's really a dumb article that comes down to "chemistry, however the hell we defined it, which is unclear, barely accounts for half a win or loss in most cases but we're going to spend 8 pages on the subject."
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Benne posted:"We can dump around $7 million into Ezra Klein's vanity project, but we can't afford to pay our piddly news desk guys." Yup, sure makes sense This is my main problem with media today. People who are talented and even-handed at reporting are often the first cut. People who manage to grab attention, or bait people, or say outlandish things, bring in the money and push out the talent. It's a pretty cruel world out there for news and has been for a while. Sorry to hear about it. Hopefully they can pick you back up if it brings in more money.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:That sucks dude. Good luck finding a new gig! ...er
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SporkOfTruth posted:Based on this blog post by baseball researcher Phil Birnbaum that Groucho Marxist linked on twitter, it's pretty clear there is absolutely no actual methodology in the first place. Nowhere does the ESPN article list data sources, regression methods (although it's probably babby's first linear regression), or anything even approaching statistical rigor. Oh, well, in that case 
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BUSTER NOquote:@Buster_ESPN https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN/status/449194370361991169
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 I love this poo poo. And I believe Buster Olney poo poo on Scorekeeping once upon a time, too, so gently caress him.
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The more ESPN has been pushing Buster as their main baseball guy, the bigger a tool he seems.
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An adult man who goes says "no, please call me Buster."
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R.D. Mangles posted:An adult man who goes says "no, please call me Buster." His real name is Robert Stanbury Olney III so Buster is, somehow, less douchey.
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This is also what happens when they don't give Gammons enough money or whatever and he bails. They seem to have replaced him with Olney.
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sportsgenius86 posted:His real name is Robert Stanbury Olney III so Buster is, somehow, less douchey. Robert or Bob Olney?
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Hi, I'm Robert, but you can call me Robestan
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Anyone who read the juggling article I posted earlier and enjoyed it should also watch this thing from Grantland on - I kid you not - "combat juggling." It's not exactly great journalism but it is a thing that exists and by existing has made my day better and brighter.
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Buster made Baseball Today unbearably boring. I don't need another reason to dislike him.
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I'll give him  to go by Busta Olney for a week.
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R.D. Mangles posted:An adult man who goes says "no, please call me Buster." Careful, now. 
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Spoeank posted:Careful, now. The only reason it's acceptable from a player is because no one there has a maturity level higher than a high school junior's anyway
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Also because Buster Posey's real name is "Gerald Dempsey".
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DeltaAttack2go posted:Buster made Baseball Today unbearably boring. I don't need another reason to dislike him.
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Wow I don't know if I've ever really paid attention to this writer for Yahoo Sports, but man this is one of the most overly-written, Bill Plashke wannabe drivel I've seen in a while. "SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Brian Wilson went to pick up the baseball palm-down, like a highwayman collecting a cone from the back of a slow-moving flatbed, and it's funny where an inning, a ballgame, a 3-0 start, can go sideways on a guy and his teammates." "There are no heroes in March. So along came Wilson, and in came Smith, and after ball one, ball two, here came the cutter, and the inch or two where a game is won and lost. Like everyone, the Dodgers will see a lot of these moments, hundreds of them, thousands even, and they'll meet their expectations by winning most of them. Or not."
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Phil Mushnick is at it againquote:At this point, in a world gone nuts, there must be dozens of NCAA, NFL and NBA players who belong to drugs-guns-murder street gangs, young women's auxiliaries included. I just, what? 
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peepoogenderparts posted:Wow Sometimes that overwrought style of writing works, though. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/yeung/baberuth/broun.html
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http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2014/04/04/its-not-racist-and-other-responses-to-wahoo-protesters-at-home-opener Great article on Cleveland Scene magazine about a confrontation between a fan and a native american protesting the Indians logo/name. I feel a great deal of shame over this. I've seen a fed pro-wahoo tweets popping up in my timeline, and It's rather sad. Go with the Block C. and just drop this logo.
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peepoogenderparts posted:Wow Who the hell wants to be Bill Plashke?
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FuzzySkinner posted:http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2014/04/04/its-not-racist-and-other-responses-to-wahoo-protesters-at-home-opener I'm going to disagree with you only in the fact that the Block C is the ugliest, least unique logo possibly ever. You can't tell me that's the best they could come up with that wasn't offensive.
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Mahoning posted:I'm going to disagree with you only in the fact that the Block C is the ugliest, least unique logo possibly ever. You can't tell me that's the best they could come up with that wasn't offensive. If they tweaked the cursive I so that it didn't look like a stylized P reflected in a mirror, it could be passable. It's hard to come up with something that isn't just a letter that is also non-offensive with a team name like Indians though. 
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The Cleveland Jndians. But yeah, that block C is so dull. Even just a white/blue outline around it would do wonders.
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