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Fozzz

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  1. Liz will only renounce the "Persist" super PAC once Bernie renounces his dark money overlords behind the Sunrise Movement.
  2. This bitch is going to get humiliated in her home state and won't win a single primary and yet she thinks she should be given the nomination? lmao
  3. He's a very interesting prospect. Low arm slot but he apparently gets a lot of his vertical movement with his average velo fastball. If he had better command I would be very high on him.
  4. What's pretty funny is that I think Warren, Biden, et al, would have a lot better shot at denying Bernie a majority of delegates if a few of them dropped out as having so many candidates in the field through Super Tuesday will result in most of them falling below the 15% threshold in each state, allowing Bernie to suck up even more delegates (like what happened in Nevada). What's even funnier is that the 15% threshold rule was supposed to make it even harder for outsiders like Bernie to compete in this process.
  5. I wonder how many Cubans the US has murdered through its illegal embargo. I would think tens of thousands at a minimum, but likely much more. Wonder why those dipshits in Miami aren't more upset about that.
  6. I heard in Cuba they don't actually disappear the doctors, they just tell them that the Cucui will get them if they report the actual data.
  7. I would agree with this, but I think the conception of Cuba on the right is different than say Singapore. Unlike the Nordic countries, no one on the right argues that Cuba is not communist, and I am not aware of very many voices on the right willing to concede that communism is capable of delivering substantial social progress.
  8. Just imagine Zork thinking to himself "now this is freedom" as he's paying through the nose for his meds at the pharmacy.
  9. People should be asking why in such an allegedly nightmarish country like Cuba they have a lower infant mortality rate and a longer live expectancy than we do here. How do people who subscribe to the propaganda regarding Cuba explain that exactly?
  10. Is zork arguing that costs, including GP pay, are handed down to each country by God and thus are immutable and we should just learn to accept our high costs for healthcare?
  11. It's 2020 and yet many posters on this board remain afflicted with pundit brain.
  12. In your scenario, it would be exceedingly unlikely that candidate A would not have greater overall support in a ranked choice voting system relative to any of candidates B-E. Dumbshit pundits like to place candidates in specific lanes and thus assume that say Biden would draw far greater support from Bloomberg voters than Bernie would when that simply isn't true. More importantly, in the scenario currently under discussion, the outcomes (assuming Bernie doesn't get a majority of pledged delegates on the first ballot) would be either to give the candidate with the marked lead in pledged delegates (Bernie) or to a candidate with a fraction of the support as a result of the impact of party functionary superdelegates and backroom dealing that has nothing to do with respecting the will of democratic primary voters. What better reflects the will of primary voters - giving the nomination to the candidate with a clear lead in votes or giving it to the candidate who is best at buying delegates at the convention as Bloomberg plans to do?
  13. One of the wildest things about our healthcare system is that it's so fundamentally broken that we spend more public money per capita than many countries with socialized healthcare (public spending in blue, private spending in black in the chart below). https://www.statista.com/statistics/283221/per-capita-health-expenditure-by-country/ To support this system you have to either be totally indoctrinated or work for an insurer (or stand to materially benefit in some other way). I'm sure though the real reason for this disparity is that Americans are just lazy piece of shit gluttons by nature compared to say Canadians.
  14. If you believe that the nomination should be based on the will of democratic primary voters, then handing the nomination to a candidate that drastically trails the leading candidate in votes would be theft. I could see how an authoritarian like yourself could disagree with that premise though.
  15. Does any Warren supporter on this board actually believe that Warren is running to win on the first ballot and not only to try to steal the nomination at the convention from someone with far more initial pledged support than her own?
  16. Willy Collado will be another name to watch this season.
  17. Command will obviously be a challenge for him but I don't think it would be a big leap from where he is now to being a useful starter. His steamer projected BB% is 9.1%, which would be fine for someone like him. If you can maintain an upper 20s or better K% then you can get away with a BB% around 10%. For instance, Luis Castillo had a 10.1 BB% last season and accrued 4.1 WAR.
  18. I'll be disappointed if James doesn't lock down the last spot in the rotation. https://www.mlb.com/astros/news/josh-james-has-eye-on-astros-starting-rotation
  19. Unless you are presuming that the Astros were also stealing signs on the road, a conclusion which was not made in the MLB's report, then yes, you can get a rough idea of how much the Astros benefited from sign stealing as you can look for divergences in the apparent talent level of Astros players at home and when on the road. When you do that you find the only area of improvement for the Astros at home versus the road was taking breaking balls out of the zone, enough of a benefit to amount to a few wins over an entire season. If sign stealing added a couple of wins over 80 odd home games, how many wins would it add in a seven game series, where it likely wasn't even as effective on a per game basis as it was in the regular season? There were a million things that mattered more during that postseason.
  20. There are downsides to using the Astros' system in that you have to listen for the sign which may make it more difficult to concentrate on the pitch to be thrown. At least one Astros player has said they didn't use the system for this very reason. This topic has also been studied extensively and the estimates on the higher end of effectiveness have it giving them an extra five wins. Moreover, the system was probably not as effective in the postseason as it was in the regular season due to the increased frequency at which teams were changing signs in the postseason.
  21. I think the 2019 conspiracy theories are so persistent because so many people believe that sign stealing is some nearly insuperable advantage and since the Astros won 100 games stealing signs in 2017 it must have been due to the sign stealing. Thus, since they won even more games in 2019 (and the 2019 team is clearly better than the 2017 team in about every way), they must have also been stealing signs then. The truth of the matter is that Luhnow and his team built a dynasty and didn't need to cheat to do it, which makes it all the more frustrating that they did.
  22. It's possible, but it's extremely unlikely the series hinged on sign stealing. If it had provided a real, meaningful advantage then I would look at the situation differently, but since sign stealing can only provide such a minuscule advantage in the context of a seven game series it doesn't really bother me.
  23. It does help over the course of a 162 game season and I think it's fair to argue whether or not the Astros' punishment was severe enough to deter other teams from doing the same in the future. Looking back, in the Astros' case I think it definitely wasn't worth it because they didn't need the additional 3-5 wins they got from cheating. However, for other teams, those 3-5 wins could have been the difference between making the playoffs and staying home.
  24. If you played that series 100 times with the Astros stealing signs and 100 times with the Astros not stealing signs, maybe the Astros win a handful more times when stealing signs than without. I think that's all you can really say about it.
  25. I don't think the Astros sign stealing meaningfully affected their performance in the 2017 postseason. I do think the Rangers wouldn't come close to making the playoffs this season even if opposing pitchers informed Rangers' hitters of what they would be throwing prior to every pitch.
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