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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's about consistency. When most people say "context," what they mean is an ad hoc rule for splitting the data they want from the data they don't want to reach the conclusion they want. "This player may look bad, but if you only look at exactly this set of information and exclude the other information for reasons that don't apply to any other situation and I decided are relevant for this case, then it's actually good."
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    In that park, in that league, an over .900 ops makes you a barely above average AAA hitter. Which makes you a bad MLB hitter.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Context is just a method for importing bias
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yes all pitchers
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'll happily continue to trash talk him. I know we have pixels to fill here and that's fine, but we're not seriously talking about bringing up a guy with a .784 OPS in a hitters' park in a hitters' league when there's a half-dozen significantly better options sitting in Iowa.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm gonna stop you right there
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    The Cubs prospect of 2023 story: You don't have to actually be good at AAA for people to be stanning for you to get MLB playing time.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    That's just something people say when they don't like a player or he didn't hit in some specific high-profile situations that stick out in their memory. It's almost never true.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Technically if you really want to get into the minutae of mostly meaningless lineup tweaking, third is less important than 1, 2 and 4, and about tied with 5th/6th. It has a pretty high probability of coming up with 2 outs, the least impactful time to hit.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'd like to state on the record, right now, that I do not care what PFF stats say in any circumstances, whether the agree or disagree with anything I already believed.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    I really, really can't wait for the regular season to start and give us meaningful news.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    It hasn't been *that* long since we absolutely torched a coach for not giving a starting QB enough game reps in pre-season. It's not a good or bad thing. It's just pre-season.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    In hindsight, being told to shut up there was nothing wrong with Wood and Prior's workload in 2003 is the exact moment I realized I hate other sports fans and want them to suffer, even if we root for the same team.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Nobody's ever blocked unless they are literally ready to come up today and you can't find a spot for him at that exact moment. We went from wondering ~2016 how we would ever use our incredible surplus of infield talent to giving David Bote 127 games in 2019.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    "Wow Fields showed that he might be moving past his inaccuracy problems on short throws." That one throw was pretty bad. "OMG why are you *focusing* and *bitching* so hard on one bad throw." A lot of you would make good Republicans.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    Bears fans for two seasons: You have to look past the stat lines when evaluating fields. One good pre-season quarter later: No, not like that!
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    Yeah, pitching depth is still the most likely fail state. I think we have a solid chance to overcome it and get into the playoffs, but it we don't that's probably the reason. The young guys who are supposed to be next man up are just not there. Brown, Wesneski, Killian, Wick. None of them seem ready to handle starts in the majors.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    Negative emotions are a more reliable driver of engagement than positive ones. Modern media is literally designed to upset you, sports media included. The truth is that it's pre-season and there will be absolutely no relevant, interesting or worthwhile Bears data until the season starts, outside of roster moves and depth chart announcements, but there's a lot of pixels that need to be spilled.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    It fascinates me how people react to simple statements of (more or less) fact. "It was an inaccurate throw." "Wellllll i'm SORRY he's not PATRICK MAHOMES and he's not allowed to EVER make a bad throw" OK? That's not ... a meaningful statement or an argument in any way. It's just weird emotional manipulation, I think? "I don't think it was a bad throw, he put it away from the defense" makes sense as a response. "It doesn't matter, it's preseason" makes sense as a response. "It's still important to show that the offense can put up numbers with playmakers outside of him, which is something every QB needs to have" makes sense as a response.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    I mean, if you wanna say "scoreboard" on the stat line, that makes more sense than pretending he didn't make a bad throw.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's preseason. Everything about it is unnecessary.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    The 5% that was Fields he screwed up, too. Moore bailed him out.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    That he threw inaccurately, low and behind the receiver.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    Honestly a pretty turdly set of options. Assad is the only one I have any hope for. Wesneski or Wick *might* be able to give you some replacement level starts. Otherwise just do bullpen games.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    Must-wins game
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