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  1. mauf

    April 24. 2024 Beat the Heat

    No.
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    April 24. 2024 Beat the Heat

    Those last two 3s were barely contested. C’s have made some of their bad luck tonight.
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    April 24. 2024 Beat the Heat

    I’m ok with the no-call on the moving screen, but then you also have to let go the incidental contact fighting through the screen. Edit: And we get the makeup call.
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    April 24. 2024 Beat the Heat

    Heat are 13-24 from 3. Nice job weathering the storm.
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    The Krafts

    The dynamic between a team owner and the football operation should be analogous to the dynamic between a board of directors and a CEO. Ultimately, the board hires the CEO to run the company. If the board is explicitly overruling the CEO’s tactical decisions, something has gone wrong — if the...
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    2024 Playoffs Eastern Conference First Round: (3) Milwaukee Bucks vs (6) Indiana Pacers

    We were just discussing whether Lillard gets called for a travel on that buzzer beater three or four decades ago. I think that’s let go even back in the day, but it’s hard to say because players seldom used the extra step that way back then.
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    Luddite new computer recommendation

    Do you need your own PC, or do you really just need a docking station where you can plug in your work-issue laptop and have a full screen, a real mouse, and so on? I ask because I’m setting up a new home office, and I’ve opted for the latter. I have a shitty MacBook Pro I bought four years ago...
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    Sox acquire RHP Gutierrez from the Brewers

    The opportunity cost is negligible, assuming you don’t think the short money will make or break whether we can do something bigger at the deadline. We can always cut Gutierrez if a better use for the roster spot arises. For now, we might as well see if we can get 50 IP at a 4.5 ERA out of him...
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    The WNBA: Thread II

    As you’re no doubt aware, it’s a lot easier to manipulate the bottom line (profit) than the top line (revenue), which is one reason players’ unions have negotiated revenue splits rather than profit splits. But the fairness of a given revenue split really turns on what percentage of profits the...
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    Raptors' Jontay Porter banned from NBA for betting on games

    Probably less likely now than it was when most sports gambling was illegal and tied to organized crime. Stories railing against sports leagues’ supposed hypocrisy must generate clicks, but I find them to be insipid. For better or worse, our society has decided the benefits of legalized gambling...
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    The Krafts

    If memory serves, the CT Legislature stripped out some of the most generous promises made by Rowland, such as the guaranteed sale of luxury suites and the make-up payments for local sponsorship dollars. Once you stripped out those elements, the deal was generous, but not egregiously so. At that...
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    My Ideal Metric - TOTAL bases

    Well, a statistic needs to measure something, and the jury’s out as to whether the OP’s proposed metric does that. I’m just saying it doesn’t necessarily need to be predictive; there’s value in accurately quantifying what already happened.
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    My Ideal Metric - TOTAL bases

    Forward-looking and backward-looking stats each have their purpose. The analytics movement has traditionally focused on forward-looking stats because (1) the people who have a financial interest in getting smarter (front offices, gamblers, et al.) are more interested in predicting what’s next...
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    Matchweek 33 - In which I can’t come up with anything

    Brutal loss for a team that’s probably in the final year of its window. Lots of decisions to make this summer, starting with Salah.
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    I had the same reaction.
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    @Rovin Romine can speak for himself, but if there’s evidence that money was stolen from Ohtani for other purposes, that tends to show that the money that was wired to the bookie was also stolen from Ohtani, as opposed to being sent with Ohtani’s blessing to cover someone’s gambling debts. On the...
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    The Juice Expires (OJ Dead at 76)

    Is there any reason to think he did? Most murderers and domestic abusers don’t have neurological conditions. And I didn’t see any signs during his (admittedly limited) public appearances during his later years.
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    The Juice Expires (OJ Dead at 76)

    Obviously not. In-depth discussion of the racial divisions that were laid bare by the trial probably fit better in V&N, though. I didn’t realize he was a first-team All Pro five consecutive seasons (1972-76). That’s pretty rarefied air — Jim Brown, Jerry Rice, Aaron Donald, Anthony Munoz...
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    The Juice Expires (OJ Dead at 76)

    I posted a separate thread in V&N, recognizing that the discussion is likely to range far beyond football, and perhaps veer into “political” topics. Feel free to discuss here. I just wanted everyone to be aware of the other thread.
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    As others have said, the feds’ focus here is the people running an illegal gambling ring. Gamblers usually aren’t prosecuted solely for placing bets. On the theft issue, whatever outcome is acceptable to the victim (Ohtani) will be acceptable to the feds, so long as Mizuhara cooperates with the...
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