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  1. SumnerH

    4/15 Borel's Million Dalbecs

    Nice escape.
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    How to find V&N?

    We renamed “Lurker” to “New Member” a while ago to try to make it more welcoming.
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    Right earbuds not working

    Do you have a metal plate in your head near your right ear?
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    Yep. There aren't many people who seriously believe that Khalifman or Ponomariov were the best in the world despite winning FIDE crowns when FIDE showed a similar inability to engage Kasparov. Prior to FIDE's involvement, the world champion negotiated with challengers to the title on a pretty...
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    Which accomplishment would you value more?

    The NCAA tournament is also an event that draws in casual non-fans due to office brackets and the like. Between that and the rabid fanbase, the NCAA Finals and even some earlier Final Four games often rival NBA finals games for viewership, and quite often outdraw things like World Series games...
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    And appropriately for the thread title, Nepo is currently at the top of the standings, 1/2 point ahead of Gukesh and Fabiano.
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    Robo strikezone: Not as simple as you think -- Baseball Prospectus

    Writeup over here, but they definitely have different zones. There are multiple options for how to set those zones that they're playing with: the Hawk-Eye system includes skeletal tracking to follow a player's height and crouch in real time. They can use that data to set a zone based on the...
  8. SumnerH

    4.3 - A’s Kickin’

    Never in doubt.
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    4.3 - A’s Kickin’

    Who flipped the "wings stay on/wings fall off" switch?
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    4.3 - A’s Kickin’

    Yeah, nifty little play to get the out.
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    Chiefs demand half a billion

    The only Fayetteville that could even remotely be involved in such a conversation (and even then, it's a huge stretch) is 16 hours away from KC in North Carolina. It's a bit over 200,000 people in a metro area a bit over twice that, and even it would only ever be invoked as a transparent...
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    Larry Lucchino dead at 78

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/02/sports/larry-lucchino-obituary/
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    George Will's Baseball Quiz - Spring 2024

    22.
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Agley. I got run over by a bus and spent a couple of months in bed and on crutches.
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    23yo isn't a kid. At that age, a lot of people have graduated college and been in the workforce for a year or two. Less privileged people have been working a trade or a job for 5ish years. Ohtani had been a working pro athlete for about 5 years already by then. I moved to Ecuador as a 22 year...
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    If I were a Japanese speaker with limited English I'd almost certainly look at places like the Japanese-American Community Credit Union or U.S. Bancorp (which just acquired Union Bank from MUFG and is supposed to have good Japanese language support) to ensure I'd have at least some access to my...
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    [Citation needed] As far as I know, that's incorrect. Citation upthread.
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Laws on this vary by state. AFAIK betting on sports is itself mostly illegal in California (outside of horses). https://www.federallawyers.com/criminal-defense/is-sports-betting-legal-in-california/ seems to support that.
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    NCAA Tournament 2nd Round Sunday Thread

    Calhoun gets a lot of hate going back to encouraging Jake Voshkul's elbows in my experience. He was just considered pretty dirty, which stuck with the program.
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    NCAA Tournament 2nd Round Sunday Thread

    Really? UConn among the sports fans I know is one of the only men's basketball programs more hated than Duke. It's basically wherever Calipari is, UConn, and Duke at the top of the list.
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