Jonathan Judge

From a decision science standpoint, one of the best ways to get to the bottom of any situation is to have 8-12 randos show up and talk it through. It really works well the vast majority of the time.

Ah yes, to hear the evidence that was kept out, and to ask the judge if they thought you reached the right verdict, and to be told by the judge that if you thought it through and followed the instructions, then it was the right verdict.

Hope you found it instructive. It is a great process that on balance works very well.

In a meeting today, my friend and colleague Aidan mentioned the lack of Ricks in baseball today. It reminded me about how we’re in a bit of a Jefficit, too. Peak Jeff was 1993. (via @stathead.com): stathead.com/tiny/clLaU

This is a fantastic and well-executed idea.

"The biggest threat to an MLB pitcher’s career is not a career-ending injury—it’s ineffectiveness."

The Trajekt Effect: How Technology Shifts the Game's Learning Curve | Baseball Prospectus How to gain a perpetual edge.

On the Trajekt stuff, @jrodrigues39.bsky.social had a great piece in August about how Trajekt teams have bigger OPS jumps on the first time through the order, and their home OPS on the third turn has the most significant jump www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article...

Brewers tap into power reserves, drub Cubs for 2-0 NLDS lead MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers, short of starters by season’s end but long on smarts and creativity in the area of run prevention, spent weeks putting together a pitching plan for Game 2 of the National Lea...

The Brewers’ Game 2 pitching plan was so detailed it included Quinn Priester warming up as a decoy. Aside from a first inning blip, it went beautifully.

But to win by launching homers? Who could have planned for that?

On the unpredictability of October: www.mlb.com/news/brewers...

In case you wanted the video

This Photo of Chourio's HR 🔥🔥🔥

That is 100% what I said and we are here. Man.

Woof City, population Mike Estabrook

Me too tbh. It looked catchable here. 😁

Probably right.

Yeah he can just do the Contreras run to first as needed, leaving the LF question

Sharpie Found a Way to Make Pens More Cheaply—By Manufacturing Them in the U.S. Newell Brands invested close to $2 billion and thousands of hours in training to move most production of Sharpie pens to a 37-year-old factory in Tennessee.

How Sharpie maker Newell Brands onshored the manufacturing of the markers to a 37-year-old factory in Tennessee, while enhancing quality and without raising prices.

Well those admittedly are two days old so they don’t account for the game 1 result.

These Mariners odds (and other somewhat elevated ones, including ours) are absolutely wild to me but it always depends what you are conditioning on.

Well it creates a de facto Manfred Man, so in that case, quite often

If MLB can make money off it, absolutely “used”

The worst

Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In NLDS Game 1 rout, Brewers show how they became baseball’s best team

www.nytimes.com/athletic/669... In NLDS Game 1 rout, Brewers show how they became baseball’s best team

Even in a music conservatory, the students sung “Kill the Wabbit” during the Wagner chapter.

Out-homering the other team 3-0 and losing 9-3 is something else. Talk about dispiriting.

my wife is a Cal fan and apparently this week they’re putting a “59” on their football helmets to honor the 59 Nobel laureates tied to Cal in order to flex on Duke

this is maybe my favorite dunk anyone has ever done on Duke

I figure Ashby needs to finish this one out

I suspect it is because he is not Paul Skenes

This Cubs-Brewers game has vividly demonstrated the importance of hitting home runs in the postseason.

As Skip Caray often said during the middle of ugly Braves losses in the ‘80s, “You have my permission to go walk the dog now, if you promise to patronize our sponsors.”

Now Cubs can bring Boyd back to start Game 2. Chess, not checkers.