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  1. michael busch dream season continues.
  2. i think he’s out, and either way that’s too close to overturn the call.
  3. speier spiraling.
  4. i wish just once that someone from the MSM would take advantage of a moment like this. ”okay, it appears that stephen miller accidentally said more than he was supposed to and is now pretending that he can’t hear us, or is possibly just frozen in fear. a lot for us to unpack later.” and then spend the entire next 72 hours giving it the wall to wall coverage that it deserves. the media could play such a big part in trying to unfuck this country, but so far they are as feckless and ineffectual as the democratic leadership.
  5. i nearly fell out of my chair when i scrolled into this post just now.
  6. lol same. i’m wondering how long it will be before we see skenes get to pitch in the postseason.
  7. on 0-2 vs aaron judge with the game in the balance you don’t throw him a pitch that he can hit.
  8. just now watching the highlights on youtube. aaron judge comes up with two on and you bring in a reliever who judge is batting .400 off of? and then that reliever gets ahead 0-2 and throws a fastball that judge can hit for a bomb, as opposed to literally anything else? wtf were the blue jays thinking?
  9. feels like this deserves its own thread. stephen miller went on tv yesterday and told us that donald trump as complete authoritative power. this should be the biggest story in America right now, but it isn’t. i don’t understand how this is allowed to happen.
  10. why would rodon even pitch to vladdy at this point?
  11. lots of people in this thread have advocated for moving on from him, while others have already suggested we will have to find a portal qb to replace him, and there’s also a whole other thread on this forum demanding that arch be benched. if i had a nickel for every time someone on this forum, and on this specific subject (texas qb play) said, “nobody is saying (insert something that’s being said A LOT)” id have a shit ton of nickels. y’all love to say stuff/watch other people say stuff and then say, “no one is saying that.”
  12. after making just about the stupid est mistake he could have, the cop goes into the gas station and starts fishing for more reasons to fuck with this guy. “is he in here causing y’all problems?” “no, he’s a faithful customer who comes here every day after work.” it wasn’t enough that this psycho with a badge pointed his gun at someone for pumping gas, he then had to go on a witch hunt for any reason to try and justify what he did after the fact. and cops like this are a dime a dozen. fuck the police.
  13. 🤮🤮🤮
  14. had some thoughts to get off my chest, so i just went off the dome and uploaded it to youtube. figured i’d share it here.
  15. PFF is a little similar to stats like fWAR, VORP, and PER- it’s far from perfect, but at the end of the season every year the best performing players are also the highest rated. call back to last year- taaffe, mukuba, barron, golden, banks et al were all rated highly, while qe was rated lowly. PFF didn’t miss on a single UT player last year, but people still want to cast doubt on PFF for, uh, reasons.
  16. i know many will think that snell doesn’t deserve mention here, but i feel he does. yes, he’s been injured- a lot. but when he’s healthy he’s been as dominant as the other two, so i wanted to give people to option.
  17. one must-win game; which one of these three is your starter?
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    Immaculate Grid

    hot damn, two in a row! everything is coming up derka. ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 919 9/9: Rarity: 40 IMMACULATE! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: https://immaculategrid.com/play
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    Immaculate Grid

    i’m really bad at these so i fell off on doing them a long time ago. picked it back up yesterday and am thrilled to have actually filled out the entire grid. i do that maybe 1/5 times. ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 918 9/9: Rarity: 123 IMMACULATE! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: https://immaculategrid.com/play
  20. Voting for the H.U.M.A.N poll concluded Sunday night. Thanks to all who participated. In total, we received 29,522 votes from 632 voters. As is custom, we took all of these votes and ran a Bradley-Terry algorithm on it to produce a 1 to 365 ranking by humans, for humans. This year we changed two things about our approach in an attempt to improve poll output: The introduction of super-voters. If you finished in the top 50 of either of the previous two iterations of the poll, you earned double power in the voting.¹ There were 55 voters who took advantage of this. The best teams were more often matched up against the best teams. For instance, Houston was matched up against teams outside the H.U.M.A.N. poll top 30 just twice this season. Last year they had 35 matchups outside the top 30 (with fewer total votes). That should give us better data on the top teams. Like, very few people think Houston is outside the top ten this season. So there’s no reason to make people prove that. Actually, few people think they’re outside the top 1, except possibly a bunch of AP poll voters. That’s my way of saying that Houston was the clear choice for #1 by the humans, joining Kansas (2024) and UConn (2025) as previous #1’s. The Coogs will need to do better than those teams or we will officially have a H.U.M.A.N. poll curse to consider. The final results are here and the top ten is below. It’s a pretty sensible top ten! As you can see from the graphic, we provide two ratings for whatever it’s worth. The BT (Bradley-Terry) rating is the raw rating from the algorithm. You can use it to get an idea of how likely it is that one of our voters would pick one team over another. Using Houston's and Duke's ratings, we find that Houston would have a 70% chance of being picked over Duke by our electorate². You can click on a team to see all of their votes: Houston was picked 76.7% of the time against Duke in reality. The computer has to balance out all of the matchups, though. If future voters behaved like past voters, we’d expect them to be slightly less bullish on Houston in this matchup, based on all of their other votes. The other rating is the Ln rating, which transforms the BT rating to a linear scale so you can compare teams on the same scale. For instance the biggest gap in the ratings were between #364 and #365, and then #1 and #2. The next biggest gap was between #18 Illinois and #19 Auburn. If you think the humans are too low on Illinois and their band of Balkan-born ballers, the Illini are actually as close #9 as they are to #19. You won’t get that kind of information from the AP poll! (Neither the BT rating nor the Ln rating actually mean anything relative to my own ratings, however.) I’d say the poll’s results seem pretty reasonable at the top. Y’all seem to hate UCLA for whatever reason, and you love St. John’s. It does seem like humans really love Rick Pitino. And to be fair, UCLA was the team most valued by super-voters relative to regular voters. The team the voters disagreed on the most was Louisville, who finished a sensible 15th, but the details are wild. They received a win in a matchup against #1 Houston and a win from a super-voter against #2 Purdue, while also taking two losses to #48 Georgia, three losses to #49 SMU, and a loss to #64 Northwestern. Finally, we can infer conference ratings from your picks and - spoiler - the top 12 leagues are in the same order they’ll be in my preseason ratings. So we are in agreement on that. If you participated, you can find your ballot here. (We’ll eventually get past results on our brand new account page.) As the season progresses, we’ll update the ballot to show your correct picks, ultimately crowning the Champion Ball-Knower of the Year after the national championship game. Good luck! 1 Should there be a fourth iteration of the H.U.M.A.N. poll, we plan to keep the super-voter concept going. However, you will lose super-voter status if you finish in the bottom 50 of the final standings. 2 We take Houston’s BT rating of 2276 and Duke’s rating of 969.6 and plug it into a simple formula like so: 2276 / (2276+969.6) = .701
  21. gabi, saliba, saka, raya- watching arsenal extend all of our world class (and just entering their prime!) players is like a dream. since ive been here it’s just been alex song, vermaelen, rvp, etc, and thats one year after cesc and nasri. our best players always leave us for barca, man u, city, etc. not anymore. now they pledge their futures to arsenal *before* we’ve won the trophies. it’s truly a new day at Arsenal, and the “literally nothing impressive” crowd takes another huge L as this club continues it’s 180 degree turn. just amazing.
  22. well, i know that game all too well, so no worries. all good. 🤘🏼
  23. do you know how impossibly fucking stupid you have to be to think that arch manning playing poorly changes the past? but please, go on, and explain to me how arch being bad this year means that quinn being PFF’s 200th was actually impressive. go on, elaborate on that scintillating point you were making.
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