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― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 02:16 (two years ago) link
hah otm.
that's an incredible press release btw, we are recreating the manningcast with two of the most disliked people in baseball and just wanted to let everyone know
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
which manning is kay supposed to be, the former sports star or the other former sports star
― ✖, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 02:34 (two years ago) link
that's not a "manningcast" it's just a pbp/color commentary booth
― ✖, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 02:35 (two years ago) link
i have no idea how this is supposed to work but cone is Good
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 03:28 (two years ago) link
I think we can all agree that Ravech and Cone (or any other combination of verbal lifeforms) is an improvement over Vasgersian and A-Rod.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 17:29 (two years ago) link
i still don't know how kay is allowed to speak in public he has a horrible voice
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
Thoughts on ESPN's top 100 players of all time list? No real surprises in the top ten, but it's cool to see so many recent players (80's, 90's 00's) in the top 25.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 3 February 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link
Didn't know about it till your post. The full list:
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33145121/top-100-mlb-players-all
Not sure how much overlap with Posnanski's list...I like Mays at #1 better, though.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 February 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
NTBT you cut ESPN a lot more slack than everyone else on the internet - i've seen nothing but complaints about recency bias and typical papi/jeets/mo worship
i sort of mentally threw out the list when ripken was ranked below ortiz and reduced to 2131 and "consistency" - i'm not a hardcore ripken fan (don't even really like the guy!) but it told me what i needed to know about the list
― ✖, Friday, 4 February 2022 00:10 (two years ago) link
The one active player that seems like a stretch to me is Harper. Three or four more solid years, maybe, probably. But you still don't know what you'll get next year.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 February 2022 02:03 (two years ago) link
I haven't read the whole list yet. But I don't have a problem with recency bias. Baseball tends to exaggerate its history, and a newcomer gets the impression that the best games and players were around 50 or 100 years ago. I have no problem with people claiming that Mays or Aaron were the best ever -- but their primes were over 60 years ago. Compare that with the NBA or NFL, where there's more of a sense that today's players are the best there's ever been.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 4 February 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
What I'm saying is that baseball's anti-recency bias is one reason for its image problem compared with other major sports and helps explain why its fanbase skews older.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 4 February 2022 15:00 (two years ago) link