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  1. Beans

    NBA Thread

    Beans replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    For the second time, too! The fact that they have retired players and commentators up there judging always bugged me, but it's more fun that way for the fans and no panel would be impartial anyway... oh, well.
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    "Our opinion is this didn't impact the game. We had a good team. We won the World Series, and we'll leave it at that." ... 55 seconds later ... "I didn't say it didn't impact the game."
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    Reese as a ballplayer is just his numbers, and extrapolations from those numbers. That's it. But Reese is more than just a ballplayer. He is a member of a team, representing a city (a community), that plays every day for over 6 months. There is a narrative element here. Sports are an infinite source of stories, mostly self-contained and neatly packaged into the context of the game. Now we all have to take his baseball story—acquired through savvy trades, former first-rounder who climbed through all levels of the minor leagues—and now mix that narrative with the creepy outside world we all struggle to ignore. I believe in redemption and in change and in second chances, and hopefully many here do as well, but it will take some time and a show of good faith from him before I can just forget this ever happened.
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    NBA Thread

    Beans replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    I was rooting for Pat Connaughton. Dude fascinates me. He moonlights as a real estate developer. And he was drafted by the Orioles in 2014, posted a 2.51 ERA in the minors and still wants to play pro baseball one day.
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    Yes, it’s the people trying to get their bearings in a public parking lot who are creepy weirdos... not the ones beating off into their steering wheel. Sound logic
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    Que Descanse En Paz (May He Rest In Peace)
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    They pulled it from this article in The Athletic https://theathletic.com/1555626/2020/01/23/the-new-3-batter-minimum-rule-wont-speed-up-games-but-will-have-negative-unintended-consequences/ "... there were 2,162 pitching appearances that lasted fewer than three batters in 2019, 1,471 of them concluded with the end of an inning or the end of the game. That leaves just 691 appearances that the three-batter minimum would have extended... The real impact of the three-batter minimum will be forcing pitchers getting lit up to the tune of a .393/.518/.657 slash line to remain in high-leverage situations. That will alter the outcomes of games, and it could alter the outcome of the season."
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    🇯🇵 Katsuya Nomura, a Japanese baseball legend whose 657 HR and 1,988 RBI rank second on the all-time list behind the great slugger Sadaharu Oh, died this week at age 84. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/sports/baseball/katsuya-nomura-dead.html
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    "A rule intended to save fans from enduring mid-inning pitching changes will only make them more desperate to see them." What is going on here? I was not talking about the IBB rule change of 2017...
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    I never once mentioned the intentional walk rule change of three years ago...
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    That article I linked earlier came out three weeks ago and was quickly picked up by a producer at MLB Network within a few days:
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    Yes, an average of anything means very little. It is, however, one of the metrics they're using to justify the rule change, so it's fair to point out the effect on the average. To the relevant games themselves, they're saving two minutes in barely 40 games. Very underwhelming. It's a stupid rule.
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    How kind of you to volunteer
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    Cringe! They had three months to think of how to say sorry. Instead they have the two midgets in Bregman and Altuve speak for less than two minutes combined, and then Dusty Baker comes in to say he's there to save the team... ha! My favourite was Jim Crane: "Our opinion is this didn't impact the game. We had a good team. We won the World Series, and we'll leave it at that." ... 55 seconds later ... "I didn't say it didn't impact the game." I actually enjoyed watching them hang themselves :-) #Schadenfreude
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    Have you looked into whether it will actually shave time from games? The article I quoted above looked into it: "Over the course of the 2,429 major-league games played in 2019, those 691 pitching appearances work out to just one every 3 1/2 games. If, in every case, the new rule eliminated the mid-inning pitching change entirely, it would have made the average time of a major-league game in 2019 (drumroll, please) … 34 seconds shorter. Thirty. Four. Seconds."
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    From an article in The Athletic https://theathletic.com/1555626/2020/01/23/the-new-3-batter-minimum-rule-wont-speed-up-games-but-will-have-negative-unintended-consequences/ "However, while there were 2,162 pitching appearances that lasted fewer than three batters in 2019, 1,471 of them concluded with the end of an inning or the end of the game. That leaves just 691 appearances that the three-batter minimum would have extended, and that’s before searching that sample for outings that ended in injury and thus also would have been exempt from the rule." "Again, the vast majority of those 691 pitching changes were made for a reason, and that reason had far more to do with trying to win than it did with playing matchups. The real impact of the three-batter minimum will be forcing pitchers getting lit up to the tune of a .393/.518/.657 slash line to remain in high-leverage situations. That will alter the outcomes of games, and it could alter the outcome of the season."
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    You people are sick.
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    This 3-batter minimum rule is retarded and does not address pace of play. Of all the pitching changes that happened last year, this rule would have only affected 691 (once every 3 and a half games). The slash line on those pitching appearances was .393/.518/.657. These are not pitching changes that happened because the manager was playing matchups. They're pitching changes that happened because the pitcher was getting lit up. And very often in a high-leverage situation—the average leverage index for these appearances was 1.75 (with 1 being average). That's basically a late-game, runners-on-base, close-score leverage situation. Managers are making these pitching changes to try to win games, not to play matchups in a clean inning. It's a stupid rule.
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    I had no idea Astros and Nationals were sharing a Spring Training facility. Having just faced each other in the World Series would make it awkward enough, but if you add in that Dusty Baker, the Nats former manager, is taking over the Astros, and the fact that to the media Houston still has to answer for all the cheating (and they'll softball Washington questions asking them to reflect on all the winning)... should be awesome!
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    Anyone here remember Kevin Goldstein? The fantasy know-it-all who used to write for BP and is now a special assistant to the Astros GM was identified as the unnamed executive who suggested using cameras to steal signs leading up to the 2017 postseason. Check out this email he sent out to all Astros scouts: "One thing in specific we are looking for is picking up signs coming out of the dugout. What we are looking for is how much we can see, how we would log things, if we need cameras/binoculars, etc. So go to game, see what you can [or can't] do and report back your findings." And he is still employed by the Astros in the same role...
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    It means he got a handy. Not hard to deduce, guys.
  23. Beans
    News: Reese McGuire caught fapping in car outside busy strip mall BJMB: That's f***ing weird, man Jimcanuck: ... PRUDES!
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    ... lol
  25. Beans
    Man, I'm done talking about Kevin Pillar.
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