I always find it, sincerely, incredibly confusing when people with analytical backgrounds like Bill James and Elon Musk do a Twitter poll and appear to take the results seriously. With Musk, there’s an explanation - he knows it’s completely unreliable but he is always trolling the world. What is James’ excuse?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 October 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
I mean, I run a Twitter poll every once in a while because it’s funny but it absolutely absurd to take the results seriously. It breaks all 194228 rules of statistical methodology
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 October 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
James should never, ever have gone on Twitter. I don't keep up with anyone there, but from what he posts on his own site--where he constantly complains about Twitter--he just seems completely ill-suited. He's always talking about blocking people for rudeness, which I suspect amounts to them disagreeing with him. James is an old-fashioned, voice-of-God writer; I say it, you agree. He didn't start out that way; three decades of deification will do that. Even in the "Ask Bill" section of his own site, there is a sort of deference built into most questions.
― clemenza, Friday, 7 October 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
Yeah I think he’s overstayed his welcome, tbh. I guess if anyone’s earned a right to be crabby and frequently and self-righteously wrong, it’s him
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 October 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
nobody's earned that right!
― DPRK in Cincinnati (WmC), Friday, 7 October 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
“If”!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 7 October 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
Death to Bill James!
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 October 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
Seven strikeouts and counting in two games--looks lost right now.
― clemenza, Friday, 14 October 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
I was lost, and now I'm found.
― clemenza, Sunday, 16 October 2022 00:43 (one year ago) link
From a Jayson Stark column today:
Check this out. It’s the Yankees’ mountainous masher through 47 games in 2023 versus that same mountainous masher through 47 games in 2022. It’s mind-blowing.
HOME RUNS
2023 — 182022 — 18
MULTI-HR GAMES
2023 — 42022 — 4
MULTI-HIT GAMES
2023 — 132022 — 13
RUNS SCORED
2023 — 412022 — 39
RBIs
2023 — 392022 — 38
EXTRA-BASE HITS
2023 — 282022 — 27
PA/HR
2023 — 11.22022 — 11.3
SLASH LINE
2023 — .298/.410/.679/1.0882022 — .303/.371/.657/1.029
― clemenza, Friday, 2 June 2023 21:50 (eleven months ago) link
Aaron Boone said he expects Aaron Judge to return this season but stopped short of guaranteeing it. “That’s an absolute. I can’t say that about anyone.”— Bryan Hoch ⚾️ (@BryanHoch) June 24, 2023
― mookieproof, Saturday, 24 June 2023 17:44 (ten months ago) link
Yeah the second I read about the second toe injection, it was a bad vibe. Does Aaron Judge even have a toe anymore?
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Saturday, 24 June 2023 17:55 (ten months ago) link
Torn ligament in his toe. Can’t walk without pain. Fucking hell.
― half the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (gyac), Saturday, 24 June 2023 18:51 (ten months ago) link
Genuinely surprised that last night was his first 3-HR game.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 August 2023 11:27 (eight months ago) link
As measured by games, fastest ever to 250 HR.
https://sports.yahoo.com/aaron-judge-becomes-mlbs-fastest-player-to-250-career-homers-034419437.html
― clemenza, Saturday, 2 September 2023 18:20 (eight months ago) link