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Argue with your “computer friends”: RCDS 112009 43

BOGUS

  1. 17-year-olds, Dude
  2. Interesting and prejudicial (in both senses), but nota smoking gun

AWESOME

  1. This is exceptionally well done, especially for getting executed in such a timely fashion
  2. Speaking of getting executed in a timely fashion, this is precisely the sort of thing conservatives are afraid of happening with the KSMNYC trial (I do, however, call shenanigans on the premise of the article)
  3. Yep, Anaheim:
  4. Euphemism watch:

    dropping in for a little MVP action

  5. Good Neyer I
  6. Good Neyer II
  7. Sal bait:
  8. Ha-ha!

43 thoughts on “Argue with your “computer friends”: RCDS 112009

  1. monkeyball Nov 20,2009 10:05 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • monkeyball Nov 20,2009 10:12 am || Up

      And: Herzog directing Jennifer Coolidge? Wow.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  2. monkeyball Nov 20,2009 10:06 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  3. nevermoor Nov 20,2009 10:06 am

    Question for the class: Does this explain the Angels too?

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  4. monkeyball Nov 20,2009 10:11 am

    Sully (or one of his minions) nails this

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  5. monkeyball Nov 20,2009 10:32 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Nov 20,2009 10:41 am || Up

      People aren’t economists, Democrats are too busy with other things to move public opinion, and Republicans are committed to attacking any proposal with any potential to make Democrats look good.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  6. monkeyball Nov 20,2009 10:32 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Nov 20,2009 10:42 am || Up

      For the same reason we never declare war any more?

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  7. nevermoor Nov 20,2009 10:37 am

    I’m conflicted by this. On the one hand, I do think NFL stats are pretty darn weak (and some of Simmons’ attacks on them make sense). On the other hand, 80% of what he brings is directly reminiscent of the anti-Sabr stuff that makes me throw up in my mouth.

    FK thoughts on the 4th-and-2?

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Nov 20,2009 10:46 am || Up

      I really don’t understand why people like him — or Posnanski, for that matter. They just go on … and on … and on … when a simple marshaling of facts and clean prose would have them done and out in 6 short paragraphs, max.

      Of course, that very fact explains why they’re both successful magazine writers.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • monkeyball Nov 20,2009 10:47 am || Up

        (The marshaling of facts, of course, in Simmons’ case, would render his column moot.)

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • Leopold Bloom Nov 20,2009 11:10 am || Up

          Simmons has become some sort of unsupportable toad, but I’ll not have you sully Posnanski, Monkey. Damn your bananas! Damn them to hell!

          • monkeyball Nov 20,2009 11:12 am || Up

            Oh yeah? Well, I’ll not have you posnanski Sully!

            you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
            • Leopold Bloom Nov 20,2009 11:18 am || Up

              Well, I might enjoy that, but that’s neither here nor there…

        • nevermoor Nov 20,2009 2:31 pm || Up

          Not necessarily. I thought the 2-point conversion part was interesting.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • Leopold Bloom Nov 20,2009 11:09 am || Up

      I think there are too many variables in football–too many situational things to accurately rely upon statistics to retroactively justify a decision.

      There’s a reason teams don’t do what Belichick did, and the end result is why–when you fail, you lose. I’m not sure why he did what he did, but all things equal, I’d rather have him as my coach than be playing against him.

  8. monkeyball Nov 20,2009 10:54 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  9. mikeA Nov 20,2009 11:46 am
    • monkeyball Nov 20,2009 11:55 am || Up

      The Barry Zito of Hollywood?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  10. monkeyball Nov 20,2009 12:00 pm

    … and of course, “Doomsday Bottom” is what Sully himself was for a couple years after 9/11.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  11. monkeyball Nov 20,2009 12:27 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • mikeA Nov 20,2009 12:52 pm || Up

      The most crazy thing about Crazy Andrew is that he doesn’t seem to have even an inkling of how fun this all is.

  12. andeux Nov 20,2009 3:01 pm
    TINSTAAFK
    • monkeyball Nov 20,2009 4:20 pm || Up

      So, when Beane says Barton isn’t done, that means Barton’s done, right?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nevermoor Nov 20,2009 4:28 pm || Up

        Travis Buck thinks so.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  13. andeux Nov 20,2009 6:32 pm

    Carter, FDLS, Figueroa, Souza added to roster
    Haven’t seen this officially, or anywhere else.

    TINSTAAFK
    • andeux Nov 20,2009 6:46 pm || Up

      Grover named Recker and Lansford as two other players who might need protection from the Rule 5 draft. Recker has hit at every level, but the A’s don’t seem really high on him; he got less playing time at AAA than 31-year-old Eric Munson. Lansford has had a decent ERA the last couple of years, but with mediocre K/BB numbers.

      TINSTAAFK
    • grover Nov 20,2009 6:54 pm || Up

      Those 4 (which I can’t find confirmation on either) plus those currently listed on the official 40 man roster makes 39, leaving 1 spot for Lansford/Recker/Godfrey/Rule 5 addition.

      I still have a hard time seeing Everidge, Eveland and Casilla in the long term plans.

      • monkeyball Nov 20,2009 7:05 pm || Up

        E&E could be marginally useful in ’10 (especially if, as it looks increasingly likely, Beane really isn’t concerned with the ’10 w/l%) … Casilla, not so much. But, yeah, beyond next year, nope.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • grover Nov 21,2009 8:03 am || Up

          But would you want that marginal usefulness at the risk of losing Lansford/Recker/Godfrey/Wimberly? Just doesn’t compute for me.

          • monkeyball Nov 21,2009 8:30 am || Up

            I have no opinion on that — I’ll defer to you and the other Krauthors on the value and likelihood-of-being-rule-fived of that quartet.

            you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • nevermoor Nov 21,2009 9:01 am || Up

            I think it would be crazy to expose Dana (there are definitely teams he could start for). Eveland, however, I think is garbage. So too Casilla.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • grover Nov 21,2009 12:32 pm || Up

              I’m guessing you mean Godfrey when you said Dana?

              • nevermoor Nov 21,2009 1:02 pm || Up

                Actually, I meant Everidge when I said Eveland. I might have still been hungover.

                "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  14. monkeyball Nov 20,2009 8:21 pm

    Man. Anyone else see that UNC-Syracuse game? The first 8 minutes of the second half were bru-tal.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • Leopold Bloom Nov 20,2009 9:13 pm || Up

      For Tar Heels. Pretty nice actually for upper staters…

    • FreeSeatUpgrade Nov 20,2009 9:43 pm || Up

      Carolina’s guards suck. I knew they were doomed as soon as ‘Cuse beat Cal yesterday; no way in hell you beat that zone with a no outside shooting and a mediocre point guard.

      I think they should field a lineup of the five guys they have who are 6’9″ plus, and let 7’0″ Tyler Zeller run the point.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  15. Leopold Bloom Nov 22,2009 8:56 pm

    An update on the monkey was the third story on the evening news tonight. Again, the news isn’t that they’ve caught the monkey or they’ve identified where the monkey came from. The news is they’ve sighted the monkey again. I may miss this place.

    Nah.

    • monkeyball Nov 23,2009 8:02 am || Up

      They probably had a guy who didn’t make the final on-air cut saying, “Hay-ell, I see a monkey ever’ tahm Ah go to the Winn-Dixie!”

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  16. salb918 Nov 23,2009 1:53 pm

    Re: Sal bait

    I find the production just a smidge overwrought, but it *is* for a good cause (isn’t it? – I don’t really know). The cult of Obama might as well be used for good and not evil. However, unions are going to have to re-think their support of Obama in light of the president’s efforts to increase volunteerism.

    • monkeyball Nov 23,2009 2:24 pm || Up

      < snerk >

      Balzano said Saturday he isn’t targeting Boy Scouts

      13-year-olds, Dude.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come

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