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  1. John_Havok
    Attaboy Garver.
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    A lot of it is because of how the champs are presented in MLB and other sports. In every sport, the eventual champion is always crowned the best, the most dominant, etc etc. Fans are constantly fed the narratives that the post season tournaments and their SSS results are more important when judging a team. Winning titles is what gives fans erections, so its a natural thing to believe that your erection is caused by the best team. Metaphorically speaking. Probably a slight majority of the time these days, that is actually correct. But sports have changed in the past half century and especially in the past 20 years. Parity in most leagues is at an all time high (maybe with the exception of the NBA?) and especially in baseball, the differences in the top pitchers, top 9 position players, top 3 relievers from a 100 win team, to a 90 win team, to even an 84 win team are not so massive that you can reasonably expect "upsets" every single year with regularity in the playoffs due to the nature of how the rosters get artificially restricted with all the off days.
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    TV ratings dont matter a whole lot anymore, more important is all the social media engagments. still a factor of course but... super bowl ratings are down nba finals ratings are down nhl ratings are down. yet every one of those leagues is arguably at its healthiest point ever. TV ratings are just not the major indicator of popularity now.
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    Not sure if this was just released today, but next season's schedule is out. Jays start with 4 at the Trop, 3 @ Houston, then 3 @ Yankee Stadium before getting their home opener against Seattle, then host Colorado and the Yankees again before going back on the road. Also have 4 off days in the first 3 weeks. Don't see Batlimore until mid may and dont play Boston until mid june. https://www.mlb.com/bluejays/schedule/2024-03
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    Wouldnt call it stupid, just.... misguided. IF MLB wants the WS Champion to specifically represent the best team in MLB, they would award it to the team with the most wins at the end of the season and there would be a 100% balanced schedule. But, since that is never going to happen for many many reasons... the WS winner should simply not be viewed as "the best team in MLB." The WS winner should be viewed to be exactly what it is, the team that won a tournament at the end of the season *mostly* made up of the teams with the best records in their leagues, that *mostly* reflects being a top tier or 2nd tier team in the game of baseball.
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    When one really thinks about it, any WS winner likely has the element of luck on their side, depending on how one views luck. There's so many different ways to frame that discussion, but at the end of the day, usually the winner gets more breaks than the other teams and things fall into place better. A line drive finds a glove for your defense and a duck snort falls in for the hitters.... Some idiot left fielder misplays a ball and turns a double into a triple at the wrong time, scoring 2 rather than maybe just 1......a terrible hitting catcher gets white hot for 6 games over a world series while 2 future hall of famers hit like dog s***..... Luck? or just the natural result that will happen more often than not due to having a better and deeper roster than the other team?
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    It would be nice for them to win at home for obvious reasons, but we'll see what kind of fire the DBacks come out with after putting up 6 in the 8th and 9th last night. Could be a healthy motivating factor.
  8. John_Havok
    Dissention is fine. Provide an argument backed up with facts that supports an alternate narrative. Nothing wrong with that Being a complete contrarian douchebag "just because" is pointless and deserves to be flushed.
  9. John_Havok
    Yeah, and the Diamondbacks can still take positives out of last nights loss... by turning a 10 run blowout into a 4 run loss. Those who believe in the intangibles and the momentum whatever else people believe players can just summon at will sometimes but not all the time will say that the pushback they showed in the 8th and 9th innings means they arent just going to roll over and die and will have a renewed sense of optimism for game 5.
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    My guess is this may increase but not by a tremendous amount. As Laika said, the Japanese system is very big and holds a lot of meaning for Japanese people beyond just playing baseball. Plus, it's the kind of thing that may, down the road, strain the relationship between MLB and the Japanese league if more and more kids decide they want to come over to the US before they play in the Japanese league, skipping the while posting system, which is a pretty big money haul for those teams when they do have players leave. I know this kid if coming to play college ball, not be signed as an international FA by an MLB team, so one might think there'd be no reason for the Japanese pro to care with respect to their MLB relationship, but it's all related.
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    Interview was also in 2018, its not like he couldnt have changed his stance or at least fine tuned it from then to now.
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    Why in the world do you even bother replying to something like that? Dude is the biggest troll on the board
  13. John_Havok
    yes, the + is a problem in your thinking. + stats take the raw numbers and adjust for different hitting environments and then scale to league average where 100 is league average. Comparing wRC+ straight across to OPS ... doesn't really tell you anything useful.
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    wRC and OPS correlate to each other almost perfectly though... so saying you prefer one over the other doesn't really mean anything at the end of the day. Also, youd never really compare a + stat to an non + stat. You'd want to compare OPS+ to wRC+, not wRC+ to OPS.
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    It’s likely something they have conversations about every off-season.
  16. John_Havok
    Education is a wonderful thing
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    For what it's worth, I don't intend it to be insulting calling you a sociopath, and I doubt you take it that way. It's just a fact.
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    He cant ignore the fast twitch muscles in favor of endurance muscles either though.
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    Correct, this is due to the type I and type II muscle fibres and what they do in the body. Type I muscles fibres are slower to fatigue so they are the ones that get used the most in endurance activities like long distance running. Explosiveness is driven more by Type IIX muscle fibres, which has the most "power" in them, but they also fatigue the fastest.
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    Types of muscle in the human body is very much genetically dependent. Some people are born with more type I muscles than type IIA opr type IIX. Different muscles types have different sizes and characrteristics and are better at different things. Once you get past the formative years, the number of muscle fibres you have never changes, its just the fibres get larger in diameter if you work at strength training. Type I muscles fibres are smaller in diameter than type IIA which are in turn smaller in diameter than type IIX. So, someone born with more type IIA and type IIX will get far better results from strength training than someone with fewer type II muscles because those muscle fibres are the ones that have the capability to get larger. People with more type I muscles will not see that type of benefit by doing the same strength training as those with more type IIA and type IIX muscle fibres.
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    I agree that optics may seem worse, but the reality is that the specific goal of weight loss doesn't need to be achieved in a gym. But, that statement is also overly simplistic and doesn't address the mental side of it. Some people need to get our of their comfort zone in order to achieve it, that may be going to the gym rather than doing it at home. Some people need to focus more on nutrition vs the exercise. Some people can do whatever, wherever because it's just 2nd nature to them and their genetics are awesome. Some people can do everything right but are riddled with stress or mental issues that self-sabotage any results. I would probably guess Manoah is in the "focus more on nutrition" category. People who get to his level or pro sports don't generally lack in the effort department.
  22. John_Havok
    You're allowed to move too, keep that in mind.
  23. John_Havok
    Nah, sociopaths aren't generally like that, psychopaths fit that bill more. connorp would just be more likely to f*** a corpse if he found it on the road as long as it met his current racial target of conquest. He'd take it back to his place first though, doing it in public would be weird.
  24. John_Havok
    I'd totally watch a Rocky-esque Manoah training video, as long as he hits the frozen sides of beef with his his non-throwing hand only.
  25. John_Havok
    The general process of losing weight, increasing specific kinds of muscle, leaning out... whatever he needs from that perspective doesn't need to be done in an advanced baseball training compound though. The basics of those things can be done anywhere with virtually any equipment or just by using body weight. Heading to driveline or the Jays internal lab would be far more about fine tuning mechanics once the rest of it has been completed.
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