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http://deadspin.com/revealed-the-hall-of-fame-voter-who-turned-his-ballot-1496558341
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Any they are all probably jumping at the opportunity to pat themselves on the back.
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and someone voted for armando benitez Deadspin?
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NFL coaching carousel/NFL Offseason thread
jersey cubs fan replied to dew1679666265's topic in Other Sports
He's probably a pretty good line coach. It was a much bigger mistake to think you can coach up second rate linemen then it was to hire him to be the coach in the first place. A position coach is going to hold sway over depth at his position, but it's not like Tice chose his guys over much better options. They were all garbage. Although it is disturbing that he had 2 first rounders completely bottom out under his watch. -
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Maybe there isn't, we as fans don't have that data, if it exists reliably at all. My assumption is that fly balls with high trajectories would have the potential for fooling a raw ball speed number, but maybe the range of ball speeds is low enough that there's even more situations where it isn't great at determining how often a player truly squares up pitches. Shouldn't/couldn't that just be recorded as a fly out and come out in the numbers anyway?
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I don't follow you. Insight has nothing to do with measurement. What you seem to be validating is simply part of the reification fallacy that is so common in baseball (e.g.,WAR). Batted ball speed won't be truly indicative of a well hit ball in all cases, just like subjective determinations of "well hit" will have a margin for error in determining the frequency of how well people are truly squaring the ball up. If I have to have one, I'd rather have speed off the bat, but having both is better for being confident in that information. Since as fans all we can get is what's given to us, I'll take WHAV even though it's not a perfect indicator. What kind of situation would involve a lower batted ball speed but a human being describing it as well hit and having that subjective description be more accurate?
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Pretty strange to look up and see that Bo Wallace will be the most seasoned QB in the SEC next year. On a side note, Wallace broke Eli Manning's Ole Miss record this year with 3,701 yards. And yes, Franklin is a terrific hire for Penn St. I'm glad he is leaving the conference. Great coach. How could it possibly be strange to see a returning 2-year starter is going to be the most seasoned QB in his college conference?
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http://deadspin.com/greg-maddux-will-not-be-a-unanimous-hall-of-famer-1496300490 I was driving on Saturday just prior to the start of the first NFL games (and coincidentally on this highway 10 minutes before this happened) http://cdnl.complex.com/m.php/CHANNEL_IMAGES/CITY_GUIDE/2014/01/majordeegan.jpg Everybody in the car was asleep and I was scanning the sports channels to listen to the start of the game when I stumbled upon this conversation: Caller - "I just wanted to discuss what you were saying about the Hall of Fame earlier." Host - "What about it?" Caller - "How can you say Maddux does not belong in the Hall.." Host- "Wait, I didn't say he isn't a Hall of Famer, what I said was he's not a first ballot Hall of Famer. There is a difference." And that is just another example why everything about all Hall of Fame discussions is stupid.
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Do you have a counterargument or are you just going to say that good players play everyday or something regardless of whether there may be a better option on a given day? Mentalities like that lead to there being market inefficiencies. No, you went in a completely different direction from what I was talking about and didn't feel like going down the rabbit hole with you.
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That is not a meaningful statement.
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Okay, that's nice.
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In a word, yes. He'll be here for a couple years at the most, and of all the free agents out there in the first place the vast majority won't be signing with the Bears anyway.
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The likelihood of finding a better football fit for the cost is very low. But if it's that important to you to not be the team to break the blackball, so be it. Are you out of your mind or suffering from poor reading comprehension? I'm being a smartass based on what appears to be you hiding behind the "it's not a true blackball situation" and "I don't want the distractions" defense.
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I think you are misinterpreting the notion of "blackball", which is probably due to people misusing it. There isn't a decrease coming down from on high saying you cannot sign the guy. The point is the league is filled with people who are outright bigots, as well as cowards who hide behind the BS storyline of "distractions". That combines to mean limited to zero opportunities, which is effectively being blackballed.
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Multiple platoons is not a good thing. Platoons just mean you don't have good enough players and are trying to mask a lot of weaknesses. They do not work out as well as we'd hope in theory. That's a silly stigma. If you can get more production by platooning rather than having one guy you play against both sides, you should do it. Multiple platoons is not a bad thing. Ask the A's. It's not a stigma, it's the situation the Cubs are in. They only have "platoons" because they don't have good enough players to fill positions.
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Smart dudes know how to toe the company line, right? Sure, but if the NFL doesn't want you around(conspiracy obviously, that can't be proven) do you go against them? The other question is how it affects your locker room. And yes, this IS stupid, but it's unfortunately the way things are in the NFL. Maybe everyone IS fine with it, but maybe I just don't have enough faith in humanity, I doubt it's the case. In fact, didn't Briggs say something silly a while back? Is Rhodes good enough to take a chance on if it actually pisses off some guys already on the team? If it possibly affected the way even one future FA could potentially look at the franchise? I'm all for signing the guy, but there are plenty of meatball players out there that would need to be considered. It's not the NFL front office telling people to stay away from him. That's not how this works. It's not going to affect the locker room in a meaningful way. Everybody who has every played in the NFL has played with gay teammates.
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The likelihood of finding a better football fit for the cost is very low. But if it's that important to you to not be the team to break the blackball, so be it.
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Multiple platoons is not a good thing. Platoons just mean you don't have good enough players and are trying to mask a lot of weaknesses. They do not work out as well as we'd hope in theory.
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NFL coaching carousel/NFL Offseason thread
jersey cubs fan replied to dew1679666265's topic in Other Sports
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Like Peyton Manning?
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Smart dudes know how to toe the company line, right?
