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To NESN's credit I tweeted that article with the comment "Dear NESN, I can write better articles than this garbage, please hire me" and apparently they namesearch? @NESN posted:@Phylan We do have editorial jobs if you're interested. Visit http://nesn.com/jobs for more information.
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Also he seems to believe that people who wear jerseys think they're on the team ????
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Apr 12, 2011 20:19
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ahahahaha this is the guy's blog http://justwatchthegame.com/blog/
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Apr 12, 2011 20:37
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NAILED BY THE DONUT POLICE I’m coming to you almost live this weekend from our cottage in Canada and this morning I got a good dose of the Canadian Nanny state. (They really should just change the name to Nanada.) One of our family traditions when we come up here has been to go into town to Tim Horton’s for donuts the first morning. My favorite was the chocolate angel. It’s creme-filled with chocolate icing. I was thinking about it on the drive into town. When I stepped up to the counter, I saw that there were no chocolate angels on the shelf and there wasn’t a sign showing that they were temporarily out. So, I asked the woman if I could have two chocolate angels and she said, “Oh, we don’t make them anymore.” I knew they were one of the most popular items in the store and when I asked why they were no longer available, she said, “Too many trasnsfats. We can’t sell them anymore.” I said, “Why, because the government said so?’ She said, yes and said something about the Minister of Health. Or maybe it was the Minister of Pastry. I said OK and made another choice and then made a snide remark to my wife about the Nanny State. And that brings me to my favorite part of the story. My daughter was still in line when the woman, who had been in line behind me, said to the clerk, “I’m glad that they’re doing something about this. I’m diabetic and there are a lot of diabetics who shouldn’t be eating that stuff. I shouldn’t even be eating this muffin.” Unbelievable. This idiotic woman knows that she’s diabetic and that she should be careful about her diet, but she still wants the government to protect her from herself. She wants someone to stop her from buying the muffin that she just bought. She also wants the government to stop ME from eating a chocolate angel donut. How the hell did the human race become this stupid?
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Apr 12, 2011 21:38
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how long am I allowed to keep posting these because lol SILENT CAL, A NATION TURNS ITS LONELY EYES TO YOU I don’t remember ever learning anything about Calvin Coolidge when I was in school, other than the fact that he was called Silent Cal, because he never said much. Recently, I’ve come across some of his famous quotes and I now plan to find a good Calvin Coolidge biography to read. One of my favorites is: “Any man who does not like dogs and does not want them about, does not deserve to live in the White House.” I’m a big time dog lover and couldn’t agree more with that. I think you could do a good job of weeding out the bad presidents by finding the ones who didn’t get dogs until they were in the White House and realized it was the smart thing to do politically. Here are some more quotes from Calvin Coolidge that make me think that we need a guy who thinks like him in the White House today.
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Apr 12, 2011 22:07
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Currently withdrawing my life savings and buying you all John Stiegerwald 'tars
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I've never had a "favorite" sportswriter. Until now 
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Apr 13, 2011 15:04
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That's one of my favorite Onion things ever
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Apr 13, 2011 20:53
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Deadspin posted a great compilation of excerpts wherein Bill Plaschke wonders stupidly aloud whether players are distracted by completely irrelevant things http://deadspin.com/#!5794419
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cereal eater posted:(Guys are better at writing sports columns IMHO) 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/books/bottom-of-the-33rd-by-dan-barry-review.html?_r=3&hpwquote:But in an era when drug revelations and statistical reformulations have left fans wary of proclamations of pastoral innocence, baseball sentiment is rough terrain. Myth and Romance sit at the end of the bench, near the water cooler, replaced in the lineup by VORP (value over replacement player) and H.G.H. (human growth hormone).
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Apr 26, 2011 14:40
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Ahahaha that is a Shyamalan-caliber twist at the end
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BITCH I SELL CAINE posted:It's a paraphrasing. You should really watch this whole thing, but this link'll take you right to the part. this made me sad
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May 16, 2011 15:06
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That is like the least wrong thing Stieg has ever written. I even . . . a- agree with it? edit: although he did use "baby mama" so he still loving sucks
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May 23, 2011 19:09
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swizz posted:via Awful App, what is this and is there an Android version
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May 23, 2011 20:04
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Badfinger posted:Yes. swizz posted:
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May 23, 2011 21:05
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Utley's back, but the Phillies have actually done better without himquote:Utley brings intangibles to this team that can't be replaced.
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Actually on further consideration I'm fairly convinced that Mandy Housenick does not actually exist and is just one of you trolling me@inthephilshouse posted:@DashTreyhorn They do. I spent over an hour figuring out the math. The numbers don't lie. Sorry, but it's true.Read the story. You'll see @inthephilshouse posted:@DashTreyhorn I'm not saying that. It was just a stat to support my belief, and Ruben's, that he won't be the savior (Ruben's words). @inthephilshouse posted:@DashTreyhorn It wouldn't matter to you, or most people, what the numbers say. You all think Utley is the end-all, be-all. You're entitled! @inthephilshouse posted:@DashTreyhorn I just gave the numbers. Usually, you guys love numbers. But when they don't support your beliefs, then you don't like them
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This is one of Mandy's blog posts on Jayson Werth last yearquote:Many of you just aren't getting it. Note that on the day she wrote this, Jayson Werth was hitting .283/.373/.505
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May 24, 2011 16:55
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She didn't have anything, she just threw that in there because she's a loving child
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May 24, 2011 19:26
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The Klosterman thing was just kind of boring. He built it up well and I was interested and then it turned out to be just sort of a fun anecdote that he had billed as THE SINGLE GREATEST SPORTING EVENT THAT I, CHARLES KLOSTERMAN, HAVE EVER WITNESSED and by the end I wondered why he spent thousands of words on it. A nice long form piece is great but the content has to be worthy of it.
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What's really shocking is that comes from Jonah Lehrer, who has written two really enjoyable books and is an awesome regular contributor to Radiolab. I'm just going to pretend he didn't write it 
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SporkOfTruth posted:I've been reading through some more of Lehrer's articles and they're equally infuriating pop-psychology/neuropsych bullshit dressed up with lots of studies used to make really vague conclusions. A bunch of other writers on Twitter swore to me that this sabermetrics article of his was an outlier, but now I'm really not so sure. His whole shtick is on misapplying statistics (which have often been obtained in a questionable fashion) to policy or medicine, and now he writes a lovely article decrying the (supposed) misuse of statistics in sports? His book "How We Decide" was pretty good IMO, but if you didn't like his articles I'm not sure how much it would appeal to you. edit: Wyers can be really unnecessarily abrasive on Twitter, but his takedown of that lovely Lehrer article is not to be missed stuart scott fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jun 29, 2011 |
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I mix them up all the time.
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Having Prince as DH would be pretty amazing, and the Yankees have "gently caress you" money and it's not like he is a bad investment. I guess that guy probably had stupid reasons in mind though.
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Here's to You, Ryan Howardquote:ON THE DAY AFTER the All-Star Game was played in Phoenix without Ryan Howard, this column is directed at the haters and bashers who have been coming out of the woodwork in larger numbers than usual. stuart scott fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Jul 13, 2011 |
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Orgophlax posted:He has a point about WAR, which is like 1.something. You're telling me Howard is only good for 1 more win than Ross Gload would be? Ross Gload's B-Ref WAR is -0.1. Howard's is 1.9. Wins above replacement are hard to amass. They're not like pitcher wins.
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Orgophlax posted:His point wasn't that his WAR number was wrong, it's that it's pointless to use to determine worth. There's no way with Ross Gload in the lineup everyday rather than Howard the Phillies would be close to the record they have now. Yes, they would be quite close.
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I was going to say Smoak but I guess when you consider positional value and defense and all that it would definitely be Gardner.
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Not sure if this is under the "journalism" umbrella, but I really enjoyed this NotGraphs article http://www.fangraphs.com/not/index.php/winning-the-sabr-debate-part-i/quote:Rather, here I want to engage on its own terms the all too common argument that advanced statistics obscure the game’s beauty. It probably isn't revelatory or anything for people here but I thought it was particularly well stated. Also if you're on the Tweetor machine the author is a pro-follow: @fuquamanuel
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I don't know if this giant iPad advertisement counts as "journalism" but it probably fits in this thread http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/mlb-tech-savvy-baseball-players-use-ipads-to-track-opponents-bloomberg-mlb-player-tool-081011
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It's a giant joke issue. It's not really a particularly funny joke but it's kind of ridiculous to act like it's some kind of travesty.
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quote:There’s a stat for nearly every action in baseball. Little is left to the imagination. Sports were never intended to be a computer program, stripped to cold, hard, indisputable, statistical facts. Sports — particularly for fans — are not science. Sports, like art, are supposed to be interpreted. Just gonna requote this awesome bit in response to that Whitlock garbage: Eric Augenbraun posted:Rejecting this claim only requires making the seemingly common-sense observation that baseball is not art. That is, it is wrong to say that baseball must be appreciated in the same ways that art is — as something we admire for its beauty, for the emotions it provokes in us, or for what it tells us about the world – because, unlike art, when the game of baseball is played, a large amount of essentially objective, numeric data is produced. Where there is an element of subjectivity is in how we arrange the data, how we interpret the data, which data we keep, and which data we throw away. With art, there is no equivalent. While we can agree that some art is better than other art, there is no data that emerges from the art itself that can serve as a basis for stating objectively which art is good and which art is bad.
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Check out @engeljen and Brandon McCarthy's feed if you want to see a writer being dumb as gently caress and getting owned
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No one screenshot from McCarthy's feed will do it, but I think this suffices for the writer: 
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Well, sorry she works for Fox Sports
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I know Deadspin is eternally the penis website around here for some reason but Craggs wrote a loving awesome thing about Tebow http://deadspin.com/5856237/ Which included a thorough drubbing of this piece of poo poo column: http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/Tim-Tebow-why-the-heck-do-we-hate-him-110211 quote:(Do we even need to talk about this person, who seems to have filed her column from either the far side of Pluto or Sean Hannity's green room? Lord is she working the aggrieved-honky angle hard. "You cannot mock Muslim faith, not in this country, not anywhere really"? What the gently caress country do you live in, lady? I don't remember anyone except the ACLU protecting Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf from the "slightest blush of insensitivity." It wasn't so long ago that a prominent evangelical could call the Prophet Muhammad ''a demon-obsessed pedophile" and still be reckoned harmless enough for his most famous parishioner to sign Bibles at his retirement. The parishioner was Tim Tebow, by the way. As to the writer's thought experiment, "What if Tim Tebow were Muslim?": I'll just point out that a country that's ready for a Muslim Tim Tebow is a country in which Islam isn't so exotic that idiot columnists write fatheaded crap like "... and thus bowed toward Mecca to celebrate touchdowns," which is a little like saying a Catholic would celebrate touchdowns with High Mass in the end zone. That country could handle the mocking of a Muslim Tim Tebow just fine. This is not that country.) edit: by the way the lady that wrote that piece of crap is Jen Engel, who I think has been documented in this thread more than a few times stuart scott fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Nov 4, 2011 |
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