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About a week before the 2012 election, my AP gov class hosted reps of the local (Rockwall County, TX) parties, and the Republican rep spent about his time arguing for gutting the CRA and VRA

I hate how much Texas has been a window into the future of national politics, but it’s been a damn good one

Did Lamelo Ball influence you to make this choice

I understand that you’re being polite here by not naming names but us bad book sickos are dying to know

At some point people will get wise to the number of baseball owners who are involved because of the 2004 tax change allowing for owners to amortize purchasing a share in a team over 15 years for tax purposes

How much does the jump from Nats to Cubs assess your view of what he can be? I’ve been a little too busy to look deeply at what they’ve done across the board so my assessment of them is basically limited to “Steele is fun” and “good to see they didn’t screw up Boyd”

Statcast Search Baseball Savant

I realized you can trim by runners and outs (but not first batter of the inning or first batter of an outing) and Clase popped as an outlier in the search for “largest percentage of waste pitches coming in no-on, no-out, 0-0 situations”: baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_sea...

Statcast Search Baseball Savant

I did savant searches for “waste” pitches in 0-0 counts both as a portion of all 0-0 pitches and as a portion of all “waste” pitches but I’m not equipped to do anything with that data

Per 0-0 pitch: baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_sea...

Per “waste” pitch:
baseballsavant.mlb.com/statcast_sea...

Feels like the conclusion should be that brute forcing this is a bad use of data

Feels like putting a skin on a biomechanics model isn’t that hard

When I assume power as FIA president in a bloodless coup, my first directive will be to create a rule allowing the race director to force teams to slap full wets on the cars to complete up to five water clearing laps whenever the race would otherwise be red flagged

Can we also have a moderate conversation about how many infielders have been traded between these franchises

I think I’ve seen Bama hire Dabo twice already. After all these years of people complaining that EA does bad things on purpose, I’m glad to see them put that to good use

It’s my feeling that they’ve been sort of okay at doing this with hitters. Is that just a function of how off the charts bad they’ve been with pitching, or are they actually executing this approach with college hitters

When we talk in ten years about how catcher value has changed, are we even going to mention ABS? Seems like the shift to the one knee stance and the implementation of pitch com are going to matter so, so much more

Their failure with Giolito is the only one of these I’d really hold against them, but it was so massive that it’s worth bringing up. Their “we don’t care how hard you throw ball four” approach to coaching is really bad!

The Nats have lagged substantially behind other clubs in talent ID and development lately — they’ve hit on a couple of blue chip guys and more or less stayed out of their way, but they’ve had zero aptitude to develop hit tools or pitching in the minors. That’s firmly on Rizzo

Didn’t realize that I could have been posting on LinkedIn about reading Wikipedia articles and then taking credit for also reading all of the sources

Crazy how everyone else in that screenshot is a solid MLB regular or better

Maybe you’re cheating with qualification requirements but it does suggest that you can’t survive by being that extreme except by being really good at something else

Gotta amortize those hot dogs throughout the year — he’s probably still averaging fewer than one a day

When he’s good he’s University of Texas alum Bryce Elder and when he doesn’t he’s that guy who’s the sixth starter for the Braves

A friend sent me a suggested edit for a legal cover letter that attempted to entirely change the court that he’d worked at. Just baffling how bad these products have become

also — reminder that LLMs are not a new technology! Idiots who think they’re inventing god are making our lives worse!

Heard anything fun about any first year DSL guys that’s worth acting on?

this current affairs piece entirely rewired how I read any Atlantic headline — and seeing them as a slop factory that I don’t need to engage with has been really nice, honestly

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-wor...

dudes will see this and say “hell yeah”

Somehow the budget ads aren’t even the bleakest issue ads that are getting regular airplay. A series of particularly stupid ads blaming inflation on plaintiffs’ attorneys recently popped up and I’d love to never see them again

I really think that wall-to-wall sports has uniquely corrupted baseball coverage

“Clutch” discourse (even when stupid!) at least makes some sense in football and basketball, two sports where the best team with the best player can reliably win. That isn’t baseball and First Take can’t convey that

Also worth noting that new generation does not necessarily offset or replace existing non-renewable generation because data center demand is exploding

Get ready for nuclear-power server farms

“Ohio State 49ers” long sleeve shirt

@sickoscommittee.org can anyone advise on why SFO has this in stock

The 300 section at nats park is nice because the intermittent noise isn’t that intrusive so you can entirely tune out the game while you wait for the Ja Rule / Ashanti concert to start

That or my brain is just so used to the dumb noise that I don’t notice it

DAZN? More like Days Inn