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    How do you feel about the Pats today?

    I hope I am pessimistic, because it would mean a lot less unwatchable football in my future! I worry that beyond the roster, there is another big negative, namely the entire football operations staff. They need an OL coach so they don't commit penalties every red-zone trip. They need a WR...
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    How do you feel about the Pats today?

    The Patriots have two good players, no organization, and owners who seem to want to meddle. The Lions were something like 79-112 over 12 years with Matt Stafford. That's about where I'd set my expectations.
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    Paradise Found? The Milton thread.

    I am half-joking about trading Maye. In all seriousness, I would bet that the Patriots are going to suck for the forseeable future. I am a fan of the team, but I just don't think it's that likely that they successfully build around Maye. So if you start from the belief that the Pats are...
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    Paradise Found? The Milton thread.

    I posted this in the other thread, but I like contemplating the high-risk, high-upside play of trading Maye for a million picks and hoping against hope that Milton can actually play decently.
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    Draft Pick Watch

    OK, I have a crazy idea I want to talk about: trade Maye for a legit fortune, and roll the dice on Milton. I want to be clear that I do NOT think that one game against backups shows us that Milton has what it takes. I am talking about a low-probability, high-upside gamble. This is how I see the...
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    NFL Week 1 Game Thread

    Lip synch fail!
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    My Ideal Metric - TOTAL bases

    Seems like you would be heading toward wOBA if you start thinking about weighting and consecutivity. wOBA values a homerun plus a strikeout more than two singles. It's a hard problem because there are pluses and minuses to consecutivity. You generally want your hits bunched together, but not...
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    Wembanyamarama

    I think am drafting Jokic and grabbing a few quick titles.
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    If I am an MLB investigator I definitely want to speak to the interpreter. If I am Ohtani, and the interpreter is in Japan and not talking to MLB, I am not sure how I feel. Maybe not so bad?
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    Fair enough, and you know way more about this stuff than I do. But tell me -- do you think it is in Ohtani's best interest to press charges? Seems to me that antagonizing the interpreter carries a lot of risk. It's likely that there's very little hard evidence about whose bets these are --...
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    I was just thinking ... if I were in Ohtani's shoes, and had essentially infinite amounts of money, and my best friend/longtime interpreter stole $5-10 million from me ... no way am I making a criminal complaint. I'd want him to go away, keep his mouth shut, and leave me alone. I make a...
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    Do pitchers actually want to aim for a donut hole?

    This is super interesting, thanks! One comment and some questions/suggestions. 1. I initially found the analysis confusing because the wOBA graphs are colored oppositely from the rest -- there, the red corresponds to pitcher failure, whereas in the others, red corresponds to pitcher success...
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    Pats select Western Kentucky QB Bailey Zappe at 137

    Serious question from a casual fan. Quarterbacks sometimes take a while to develop, and Zappe has had only 3 starts. He's shown some flashes but made some dumb plays. How are people so sure he won't develop with more experience? Like, maybe he becomes an average starting quarterback with a...
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    Game 7: Knowing More Than Who Our Parents Were

    Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston.
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    iMac / Outlook / zsh - for macOS Big Sur v11.6

    I am puzzled why the change in the default shell should cause problems for Word. I remember getting this error message when I was still using bash and the default changed. In any case, you might try changing the default shell back to bash and seeing if that works...
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    Grade the Red Sox trade deadline

    Part of Bloom's job is to manage the media and the fans, while also hedging against the possibility that the Sox will continue to overperform. So he does what he can do to improve the team consistent with the long-term plan and his (hypothetical) suspicion that they are going to fall back to...
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    Grade the Red Sox trade deadline

    I kinda want to change my vote, since I now think that the team might not have been as good as I thought they were. If they were only ok, then it wasn't worth spending very much to get better. If Bloom knew that and I didn't, then he played things just right.
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    All Star Week Gamethread

    Anthem a bit touch and go I felt.
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    Going to LAAA in 2018 - Shohei Ohtani

    Ohtani should be able to DH for himself, playing two separate roles. Once he's taken out as a pitcher, he stays in as DH for the rest of the game.
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    Brian Scalabrine is Better at Basketball Than You

    As a bonus, having a shitty punter would encourage your team to punt less, which is probably in their interest anyway.
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