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  1. There is a lot of confusion and anger from the one anti-vax person I know right now. She voted for Trump specifically because of his historical statements on vaccines.

     

    This morning has gone rapidly from bewilderment to denial to the "fact" that he was bought by the pharmaceutical industry back to confusion about how such a super rich guy got bought back to anger that the industry threatened his family's safety because that's the only explanation. It's been wild.

     

     

  2. Interestingly enough Facebook is good for this specifically because it's easy to disable notifications, remove yourself from the group, etc. I guess the iPhone can do it too but that just reinforces the point that you need a medium where you can disable notifications.

     

    I don't get notifications from any of the family groups I'm in. I catch up if and when I want. There's a family snapchat group and my brother-in-law recently had a kid. You can try but can't really imagine how many pictures and videos of that kid that my concuña sends. But I never hear about them.

     

     

     

     

  3. Yeah I thought I'd have trouble but a little planning and I was fine. I stopped drinking fluids at 3:00 for a 10:30 showing. Then consumed popcorn and drink like normal and had no issues.

    The real problem is drinking fluids all day then having the big caffeinated drink on top of that. Well it's not really a problem, obviously you should usually drink fluids all day. But if your goal is not having to pee for a little while then not drinking anything for nearly 8 hours before then works. Then have enough to get yourself right again. Tom Herman would not have liked my first visit to the bathroom after the movie.

    Sorry, I forgot the pee talk was on the other thread. Back to movie discussion.

  4. On 4/24/2019 at 2:21 PM, mdmost said:

    Pep might be more sensitive than Mourinho. 

    lulz

    After his comments MCFC released stats to the media showing that United has committed way more fouls than City this season including more fouls in the opponent's half.

  5. I thought it was a very good movie from a storytelling perspective. My complaints about it originate more from Infinity War and the very decision to incorporate time traveling into the storyline. Some may consider avoiding that to be awkward considering there's a time stone but then they went and gave the Avengers time traveling ability without the need for the time stone. Given that you are going to have plot holes and storyline issues when you introduce time travel they did reasonably well with that around their necks.

    I hated what they did with Hulk the last two films he appeared in and I guess the Gray Hulk sort of character was the best possible resolution to his punking out the last two films. I will miss the rage monster but that's personal preference. Rage monster Hulk is best Hulk.

    The first Avengers film is still the best, but a lot of that is probably that it was the first time seeing so many superheros on screen together and how well they pulled that off. This movie was an outstanding resolution to the Infinity Saga. I do think some of the comedy bits were overdone as they've tended to do lately, such as Thor being fat. Completely unnecessary, he could have been brooding and despondent without the ice cream and salad jokes. But overall really good.

  6. Any answer without Pedro is wrong.

    The Babe Ruth inclusion is a masterstroke. Assuming that this exercise is about "you get to start a team with a 5-man rotation, who are you taking?" then Babe Ruth is the most correct answer possible.

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  7. Tucker just got paid.

    http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26594192/tucker-sets-kicker-records-4-year-extension

    The Baltimore Ravens and kicker Justin Tucker have agreed to a four-year extension, it was announced Wednesday.

    The extension makes him the highest-paid kicker in NFL history. The $23.05 million deal includes $12.5 million fully guaranteed in the first two years and an $8 million signing bonus, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

    The total value of the extension, the guaranteed money and the signing bonus all set records for a kicker.

    Tucker, the most accurate kicker in NFL history, had been scheduled to become a free agent at the end of the 2019 season. This deal keeps Tucker with the Ravens through the 2023 season.

    The 29-year-old Tucker has put himself in a class by himself among kickers, converting 90.1 percent of his field-goal attempts. No other kicker has hit over 88 percent for a career.

    Known for his strong leg and big personality, Tucker is the first kicker in league history to make at least 30 field goals in six consecutive seasons. Excluding blocked kicks, he hasn't missed a field goal from inside 50 yards since 2015.

    He made 35 of his 39 field goal attempts last season, including five of 50 yards or longer, and finished with 141 points.

    Tucker joined the Ravens as an undrafted free agent and tryout player in 2012. He beat out Billy Cundiff for the job and quickly established himself as one of the top kickers in the game.

    He was named a first-team All-Pro for the third time last season, however Tucker has not made the Pro Bowl the past two seasons despite missing a combined five field goals in 2017 and 2018. In those seasons, Tucker is 62-for-67 for a 92.5 percent success rate.

    Tucker has spent his entire seven-year NFL career with the Ravens, making 237 of his 263 attempts and missing only one PAT in 242 regular-season attempts for a total of 952 points.

    With Tucker signed, other Ravens in line for extensions are outside linebacker Matthew Judon, inside linebacker Patrick Onwuasor and defensive tackle Michael Pierce.

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  8. On 12/26/2018 at 1:40 PM, Doc Reeves said:

    The reason that exact scenario hasn’t occurred yet it very telling of what the NCAA cares most about

    No, the reason is that it's a stupid idea.

    Do other students on scholarships (academic, etc.) have their transfer options limited by their department chairs? Or by their university's accrediting agency? Of course not. If you want to treat the football players like students then treat them like students. They can transfer wherever the hell they want whenever the hell they want.

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  9. All of the last few posts are obviously correct. He's gotten to the point of absurdity with his tinkering. My biggest personal issue with it is that there is no logical philosophy that underpins any of his changes. He has undertaken this huge experiment to try to consistently beat the spread and has abandoned any and all sound reason in the pursuit. There is zero reason to keep preseason polls in your formula until the end of the season. That completely corrupts and invalidates your system as, quite clearly, you are saying that players and coaches who no longer have anything to do with the program affect the current season ratings.

    He's correct that a college football season doesn't have enough data points for a full analysis, but that doesn't mean you throw in data points that you know don't belong. And let's discuss this conference input to his formula now. What he should have realized is that conferences are just a proxy for something else his formula must be missing (if he is going to refuse to stop this quest). An arbitrary grouping of teams that all play a more strongly interconnected subset of the schedule graph is already overemphasized in a ratings set because of that interplay. My first inclination is that bumping up that contribution is a proxy for the fact that his system still isn't accurately determining garbage time despite his efforts. Conference mates are typically closer in strength to each other than non-conference games, so those games will indeed be a typically more accurate representation of true team strength than non-conference games.

    But instead of various other possible tweaks that would make more sense (weight closer games significantly more heavily, including plays occurring outside of garbage time in the play-by-play analysis, instead of just throwing out garbage time; there are several different methods to do this) he just declares that he's going to throw in conference strength because he back-checked it against a few seasons.

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  10. Yes, we all know that. But the out isn't a K. The out is a putout at first base (typically scored "K 2-3" indicating, again, the out at first base). In a strikeout that directly records the out it is just a K and the catcher gets the putout.

  11. "fake godliness"? uh, have any of you guys paid attention to the man at all during any point in the last decade+? this is who Rick Barnes is and has been for some time. It's been talked about here and on shaggy at some length. it's widely known that he turned religious and then changed his entire demeanor/behavior/approach to coaching and life, and he's been committed to it this entire time. he's certainly not faking it, and he's certainly not the first person to pray on something, but yeah, let's single him out for that as if that's unique to him or something.  it then i again i guess there isn't anything he does that *doesnt* upset most of you, so pat for the course. 
    Lying that his decision to stay at Tennessee was due to God is fake godliness and 100% BS. Everyone knows it.

    The argument that a guy is actually religious so he'd never insert God as an explanation for his financial decisions isn't persuasive at all. Religious people do that constantly to make themselves look and feel better.
  12. In other words, they see as equivalent things that may or may not  help (federal solutions, identity stuff), and things that are already abject moral crimes (Christian hegemony, minority targeting, military gluttony, war on drugs, etc.).  In fact they are resolved to tolerate the latter, but will, in the end, work against the former as they may impinge on their comfort.

    This is an incredibly, and surprisingly based on the poster, terrible post.

    And yes I'm way behind.

     

  13. OSU announcers just said that their starter struck out the side.

    Plate appearance 1: Ellis strikes out

    PA 2: Kennedy strikes out but reaches on a wild pitch

    PA 3: Todd flies out to center

    PA 4: Hibbeler strikes out

    Verdict?

    They're wrong. That is the example of striking out three batters but not striking out the side.

     

    It does bring up the only scenario about this I think is debatable. Two strikeouts are clean but the third is a drppped third strike put out at first. It's a strikeout but technically the out is recorded as a put out at first base. I can see either argument on this one. I think the fair answer would be it's striking out the side if it was a passed ball or straight drop by the catcher but not if it was a wild pitch. But I'm not really sure what the technically correct answer would be in that situation. I'm inclined to say it counts if the batter who struck out doesn't reach first safely. If something crazy happens and there's a wild throw and he's tagged out going for second then it wouldn't be.

  14. Striking out the side means obtaining all three outs in a half inning via the K.  A 1-2-3 inning is sitting them down in order.  Striking out the side without it being a 1-2-3 inning likely means it was a fairly inefficient inning for the pitcher in terms of pitch count (though not always)

     

    “The side” is a half inning, 3 outs. You get all 3 outs by strikeout, you’ve struck out the side. 

    You strike out the first 3, you’ve struck out the side in order. 

    These guys are absolutely correct. A half-inning is a "side" (hence the term "retiring the side" when the defense makes the last out). If you get all of the outs in a half-inning via strikeout, then you have "struck out the side." If a runner reaches on a third strike via wild pitch or passed ball then it would take 4 strikeouts to strike out the side.

    Anyone who thinks it has to be 1-2-3 is wrong and they should feel bad about not knowing the actual meaning of the word "side" in that context.

     

     

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  15. 14 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

    "Cull" means to select a few (usually the least desired or most inferior) from a large number. When you cull a herd of cows, you remove the ones you don't want.

    I think the word you are looking for is "exterminated".

    Not a lot to disagree with in this post.

    But it also reminds me of how the word decimated is now used to mean roughly the same thing as annihilated even though its actual original meaning was to kill every tenth soldier (so only 10% of a population).

    Carry on.

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