Useless Thread MDCCCXVI: Gary Bettman Depreciation Thread

[Sega Dreamcast]

And now, the continuation of the Useless Thread

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[Sega Dreamcast]

Look at how many times Alexa Bliss has been harassed by her own "fans" and the "wwe universe"

I would like to assume that creepy fans are the exception and not the norm, but this is wrestling fans we're talking about.

However, there is an argument to be made about the WWE scaring off all the sensible fans and the only explanation for the remaining fans is that something is wrong with them

 

[John Price]

 

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@Ben Griebe

Yes, Sabermetrics Ruined Baseball

 

[John Price]

All of this has been dictated by the stats departments that are now employed by every team; the changes I don’t like are ultimately their doing. The “old school” managers have evolved or retired out. (76-year-old Tony LaRussa defied expectations both in terms of his team’s success and his willingness to adapt - somewhat - to analytics.) To get the obvious out of the way, sabermetrics works, in the simplest sense of making it more likely for a baseball team to collect wins over the course of the regular season. I still sometimes hear of a stats vs. old school, nerds vs. jocks divide, but that is very old news. Advanced metrics won in a rout in baseball, as they have in basketball. (Arguably there’s a lot of work to be done in that regard in football, but the complexities there are astounding given the ruleset and number of players on the field at any given time.) Statheads have argued for years that balls batted into play are more or less random and stressed the more certain outcomes of homers and strikeouts, among other philosophies. The impact on the game is obvious, and for me, painful.

I recognize that the analytics people set themselves the task of quantitatively identifying the strategies teams could pursue to produce and prevent the most runs, and I understand that they have been very effective in doing so. I understand that it is the job of teams, their front offices, their managers, and their players to optimize their number of wins over the course of a season. None of that is nefarious. The problem is that the resulting product is dogshit. I recognize that safeguarding the popularity of baseball is not the job of the analytics departments. But it is most certainly the job of the teams, as corporations that are part of the entertainment business, whether you like it or not. And the league is made up of the teams.

 

[Ben Griebe]

@Ben Griebe

Yes, Sabermetrics Ruined Baseball

Hey, everybody, an old man is talking!

 

[John Price]

Hey, everybody, an old man is talking!

Yinz can't even agree on a universal Saber metric stat. What good is that?

How would I even know whether to use eWar or WAR or bWar?

 

[John Price]

@Tarantula too much math in baseball these days.

 

[John Price]

Trump-allied lawyer Rudy Giuliani baselessly claims that he has '900 death certificates' on hand to prove that thousands of dead people voted in the election (msn.com)

 

[John Price]

Lockheed F-35 jet wins Finnish fighter competition (msn.com)

 

[John Price]

Watching TV

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

Absolutely no situational awareness.

However, the Steelers shouldn't have had a chance to tie it up if Cousins didn't throw a f***ing interception with 4 minutes left.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Absolutely no situational awareness.

However, the Steelers shouldn't have had a chance to tie it up if Cousins didn't throw a f***ing interception with 4 minutes left.

you hate to see it.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

@PanthersPens62 @John Price I recently watched this again. (EDIT: Sean Taylor documentary.)



I'm an emotional guy and I still find it hard to watch this. My wife went to high school with him at Gulliver.

 

[John Price]

@Ben Griebe One of the DS? games from 1996 is on MLB Network right now (Seattle @ NYY)

Buhner is playing RF.

@TheGreenTBer

@Fixed to Ruin

 

[Sega Dreamcast]

you hate to see it.

Play an embarrassing first half, then give the fans false hope by almost making a historic comeback, just to shoot yourself in the foot and lose in heart-breaking fashion.

Couldn't happen to a better fanbase.

 

[John Price]

1996: Seattle Mariners at New York Yankees
MLB Network
From May 14, 1996.
On MLB Network

 

[John Price]

 

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"If Mike Tomlin were fired tomorrow, how many other teams do you think would be contacting him immediately?"

Well yeah, consistent mediocrity would be a rousing success for some franchises.

Tomlin is definitely not a bad coach, but the team being outright unwilling to even consider moving on from him seems to have brought about an air of complacency.

 

[John Price]

Nothing good on TV

 

[John Price]

This is the MSG Broadcast of a May regular season game between Seattle and NYY. For the life of me I can't figure out why MLB Network figures this game is worth airing at noon EST.

 

[John Price]

No Kay, no Singleton, no Cone, what's the point

 

[John Price]

Gooden no hitter