Can Ryan Goins stick?

[theblujay]

Lets not forget that Izturis had a marginally bigger sample than Goins, and Goins stats would have deflated had he played 400 PAs.

 

You could post Goins and Izturis wRC+ and wOBA and leave it at that but why ignore the stats I posted?

 

Because wRC+ and wOBA are gospel around here. I don't care about BABIP because I'm just talking about what they did last year. And no, Goins would not have gotten any worse than a 60 wRC+ with more playing time.

 

I already said Izturis is better on O. I'm just showing your thick skull that they were nearly identical last year.

[Orgfiller]

I won't pretend to have read enough to know if this is/isn't your main point (you mentioning me is the only thing that caught my eye) but their last year stats aren't the only things that influence their projections. Their track records/past three years have quite a bit of say as well. I like Maicer's projection of 84 wRC+. I doubt he puts up anywhere near 60 again, RTTM and the fact that it's kind of hard to be that bad should take care of that.

 

Although we've already discussed all of this 30 times so

 

When did regression to the mean get its own acronym?

[theblujay]

You know full well I skim because I'm too lazy to actually read.

 

It looks like dumb and dumber are out in full force tonight. You guys shouldn't be wasting your precious posts on a thread without your homies to give you thanks.

 

You're gonna lose your elite ranking on the forum poster rankings!!!!!!!!

[GD]

I don't care about BABIP because I'm just talking about what they did last year.

 

Oh, this is your argument. I don't know why you're arguing this, but sure. Izturis and Goins were comparable offensively last year. Doesn't mean *everything* for the future, but sure.

 

When did regression to the mean get its own acronym?

 

Since Mike Wilner started using it to piss us off, I think.

[GD]

Still haven't convinced me.

 

I have a feeling that he's arguing that their offensive outputs/results like wRC+ and wOBA were similar whereas you're arguing that their styles of hitting/process such as batted ball profile and plate discipline were different and you're both misinterpreting each other as thinking that they're similar/different as a WHOLE rather than process vs results. Spoiler alert: I'm too lazy to check on the latter argument, but I'm pretty sure you're both right and you can both shut up right about now.

[GD]

It looks like dumb and dumber are out in full force tonight. You guys shouldn't be wasting your precious posts on a thread without your homies to give you thanks.

 

You're gonna lose your elite ranking on the forum poster rankings!!!!!!!!

 

oh noez

 

What flew up your ass? I'm not even /trying/ to troll you tonight. f***, I just agreed with you. I should totally be trolling you right now. Ehh.

[theblujay]

I think you are underestimating the offensive difference between Goins and Izturis.

 

Oh, this is your argument. I don't know why you're arguing this, but sure. Izturis and Goins were comparable offensively last year. Doesn't mean *everything* for the future, but sure.

 

 

King said something stupid and I called him out.

[theblujay]

You seem mad.

 

False arrogance annoys me.

[GD]

ROFL

 

cap filler

 

You sly bitch.

[theblujay]

oh noez

 

 

Where's the picture of the cat?

[theblujay]

You sly bitch.

 

You two are too witty for your own good.

[GD]

Where's the picture of the cat?

 

That's kcjaysfan's job.

 

You two are too witty for your own good.

 

wow

much sly

such wit

2cunning4u

[GD]

Dumbass!!!!!

 

Shut yer trap ya fart suckin uphill gardnin' knob jockey!

[theblujay]

wow

much sly

such wit

2cunning4u

 

I bet you think you're one of the smart kids at your school. You probably get Cs, but that's just cause you don't try, but "don't worry guys, I could try if I wanted to". You're that kid who gets to a s***** college thinking you're gonna slay it! And then you flunk out first semester and blame the government, or the school, or your high school, or your teachers, or your friends...anyone but yourself. Remember me when this happens and try to realize what you've done to yourself.

[theblujay]

roasted.

 

Speaking of arrogance........

 

In 7th grade, I took an SAT test without preparing for it at all, it was spur-of-the-moment, I knew about it about an hour ahead of time and didn't do any research or anything. I scored higher on it than the average person using it to apply for college in my area.

An IQ test has shown me to be in the 99.9th percentile for IQ. This is the highest result the test I was given reaches; anything further and they'd consider it to be within the margin of error for that test.

My mother's boyfriend of 8 years is an aerospace engineer who graduated Virginia Tech. At the age of 15, I understand physics better than him, and I owe very little of it to him, as he would rarely give me a decent explanation of anything, just tell me that my ideas were wrong and become aggravated with me for not quite understanding thermodynamics. He's not particularly successful as an engineer, but I've met lots of other engineers who aren't as good as me at physics, so I'm guessing that's not just a result of him being bad at it.

I'm also pretty good at engineering. I don't have a degree, and other than physics I don't have a better understanding of any aspect of engineering than any actual engineer, but I have lots of ingenuity for inventing new things. For example, I independently invented regenerative brakes before finding out what they were, and I was only seven or eight years old when I started inventing wireless electricity solutions (my first idea being to use a powerful infrared laser to transmit energy; admittedly not the best plan).

I have independently thought of basically every branch of philosophy I've come across. Every question of existentialism which I've seen discussed in SMBC or xkcd or Reddit or anywhere else, the thoughts haven't been new to me. Philosophy has pretty much gotten trivial for me; I've considered taking a philosophy course just to see how easy it is.

Psychology, I actually understand better than people with degrees. Unlike engineering, there's no aspect of psychology which I don't have a very good understanding of. I can debunk many of even Sigmund Freud's theories.

I'm a good enough writer that I'm writing a book and so far everybody who's read any of it has said it was really good and plausible to expect to have published. And that's not just, like, me and family members, that counts strangers on the Internet. I've heard zero negative appraisal of it so far; people have critiqued it, but not insulted it.

I don't know if that will suffice as evidence that I'm intelligent. I'm done with it, though, because I'd rather defend my maturity, since it's what you've spent the most time attacking. The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code.

I believe firmly that everybody deserves a future. If we were to capture Hitler at the end of WWII, I would be against executing him. In fact, if we had any way of rehabilitating him and knowing that he wasn't just faking it, I'd even support the concept of letting him go free. This is essentially because I think that whoever you are in the present is a separate entity from who you were in the past and who you are in the future, and while your present self should take responsibility for your past self's actions, it shouldn't be punished for them simply for the sake of punishment, especially if the present self regrets the actions of the past self and feels genuine guilt about them.

I don't believe in judgement of people based on their personal choices as long as those personal choices aren't harming others. I don't have any issue with any type of sexuality whatsoever (short of physically acting out necrophilia, pedophilia, or other acts which have a harmful affect on others - but I don't care what a person's fantasies consist of, as long as they recognize the difference between reality and fiction and can separate them). I don't have any issue with anybody over what type of music they listen to, or clothes they wear, etc. I know that's not really an impressive moral, but it's unfortunately rare; a great many people, especially those my age, are judgmental about these things.

I love everyone, even people I hate. I wish my worst enemies good fortune and happiness. Rick Perry is a vile, piece of s*** human being, deserving of zero respect, but I wish for him to change for the better and live the best life possible. I wish this for everyone.

I'm pretty much a pacifist. I've taken a broken nose without fighting back or seeking retribution, because the guy stopped punching after that. The only time I'll fight back is if 1) the person attacking me shows no signs of stopping and 2) if I don't attack, I'll come out worse than the other person will if I do. In other words, if fighting someone is going to end up being more harmful to them than just letting them go will be to me, I don't fight back. I've therefore never had a reason to fight back against anyone in anything serious, because my ability to take pain has so far made it so that I'm never in a situation where I'll be worse off after a fight. If I'm not going to get any hospitalizing injuries, I really don't care.

The only exception is if someone is going after my life. Even then, I'll do the minimum amount of harm to them that I possibly can in protecting myself. If someone points a gun at me and I can get out of it without harming them, I'd prefer to do that over killing them.

I consider myself a feminist. I don't believe in enforced or uniform gender roles; they may happen naturally, but they should never be coerced into happening unnaturally. As in, the societal pressure for gender roles should really go, even if it'll turn out that the majority of relationships continue operating the same way of their own accord. I treat women with the same outlook I treat men, and never participate in the old Reddit "women are crazy" circlejerk, because there are multiple women out there and each have different personalities just like there are multiple men out there and each with different personalities. I don't think you do much of anything except scare off the awesome women out there by going on and on about the ones who aren't awesome.

That doesn't mean I look for places to victimize women, I just don't believe it's fair to make generalizations such as the one about women acting like everything's OK when it's really not (and that's a particularly harsh example, because all humans do that).

I'm kind of tired of citing these examples and I'm guessing you're getting tired of reading them, if you've even made it this far. In closing, the people who know me in real life all respect me, as do a great many people in the Reddit brony community, where I spend most of my time and where I'm pretty known for being helpful around the community. A lot of people in my segment of the community are depressed or going through hard times, and I spend a lot of time giving advice and support to people there. Yesterday someone quoted a case of me doing this in a post asking everyone what their favorite motivational/inspirational quote was, and that comment was second to the top, so I guess other people agreed (though, granted, it was a pretty low-traffic post, only about a dozen competing comments).

And, uh, I'm a pretty good moderator.

All that, and I think your behavior in this thread was totally assholish. So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?

[theblujay]

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/elmo-tl_dr.gif

 

There's the gif.

[GD]

I bet you think you're one of the smart kids at your school. You probably get Cs, but that's just cause you don't try, but "don't worry guys, I could try if I wanted to". You're that kid who gets to a s***** college thinking you're gonna slay it! And then you flunk out first semester and blame the government, or the school, or your high school, or your teachers, or your friends...anyone but yourself. Remember me when this happens and try to realize what you've done to yourself.

 

I'm comfortably in the 80's. Not as good as I could be but I'm bullshitting with the "I don't try" because I work my ass off and there's nothing more that I want than to get out of the A- range and around 93 so that I can get into the uni I want so that I can actually do what I love for a living. While I was joking about that not trying stuff last night, I'd been working for 6-7 straight hours on various projects.

 

I'm not JUST an ******* lazy teenager. Mainly? Sure. But not entirely

 

roasted.

 

#hitthedeck

 

So what do you think, now that you at least slightly know me?

 

My opinion of you hasn't changed. I'm still sure that you're a generally good person and intelligent human being whose views I strongly disagree with on the topic of Ryan Goins, and that's really the only thing we disagree on. We don't have many other arguments, I don't think. It's the internet. Who gives a f***. All in all, I'm sure you're a good person.

 

And yes, I read that. Every word. I can relate to you in the fact that Ontario would consider us both gifted (I'm somewhere above the 97th percentile for IQ, as that's the minimum standard for giftedness/whatever a 130+ IQ is. Don't ask me for an exact number; I don't know where to go to get an actual test). We're gifted in extremely, giantly, hugely different ways, but we both have good IQs, for whatever that's worth (not all that much, in my opinion). So we're a little similar, I guess.

[theblujay]

I'm comfortably in the 80's. Not as good as I could be but I'm bullshitting with the "I don't try" because I work my ass off and there's nothing more that I want than to get out of the A- range and around 93 so that I can get into the uni I want so that I can actually do what I love for a living. While I was joking about that not trying stuff last night, I'd been working for 6-7 straight hours on various projects.

 

I'm not JUST an ******* lazy teenager. Mainly? Sure. But not entirely

 

 

 

#hitthedeck

 

 

 

My opinion of you hasn't changed. I'm still sure that you're a generally good person and intelligent human being whose views I strongly disagree with on the topic of Ryan Goins, and that's really the only thing we disagree on. We don't have many other arguments, I don't think. It's the internet. Who gives a f***. All in all, I'm sure you're a good person.

 

And yes, I read that. Every word. I can relate to you in the fact that Ontario would consider us both gifted (I'm somewhere above the 97th percentile for IQ, as that's the minimum standard for giftedness/whatever a 130+ IQ is. Don't ask me for an exact number; I don't know where to go to get an actual test). We're gifted in extremely, giantly, hugely different ways, but we both have good IQs, for whatever that's worth (not all that much, in my opinion). So we're a little similar, I guess.

Hahahahaha oh man I guess you haven't spent much time on reddit

[baseballsss]

man the jays board seems to have a lot of "gifted" people on it, you'd think they be able to find something better to do.

[theblujay]

Holy s*** Gordie.. You read all of ghat? He copy and pasted it from reddit.

 

Hahahahahaha I hope he was joking

[GD]

Holy s*** Gordie.. You read all of that? He copy and pasted it from reddit.

 

I copy and pasted the first sentence into google and said f*** that.

 

GOD f***ING DAMNIT THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR BEING A HALF DECENT HUMAN BEING

 

lol it's fine i had nothing better to do and I got to brag about my IQ so jokes on you!

[baseballsss]

Hahahahahaha I hope he was joking

 

hahaha epic

[theblujay]

GOD f***ING DAMNIT THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR BEING A HALF DECENT HUMAN BEING

 

lol it's fine i had nothing better to do and I got to brag about my IQ so jokes on you!

 

Gold

[GD]

Gold

 

that was exactly what this thread needed

[Smokey]

GOD f***ING DAMNIT THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR BEING A HALF DECENT HUMAN BEING

 

lol it's fine i had nothing better to do and I got to brag about my IQ so jokes on you!

 

Wait a sec, you actually thought theblujay was "gifted"?!?!?!?! Lmfao

[theblujay]

Can't stop laughing Gordie this is f***ing embarrassing

 

I've been laughing for 15 minutes

[Boxcar]

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[GD]

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it's like those homeless shelter ads about why the street kid can't get a job

 

yes, i read one of those too

[GD]

Delete your account and start again

 

but mi postz count!11!1!!11!!1!!

[theblujay]

but mi postz count!11!1!!11!!1!!

 

You sound like fatcow when we made him switch boards.