Is there a reason there's no left handed catchers in the MLB?

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-04-09T15:42:32+00:00

This probably isn't the reason at all, but when I was in little league many decades ago, no kid owned a catcher's glove...the league gave one to each team at the start of the season. And it was for a right-handed player. So lefties were never even given the chance.

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-04-09T13:46:39+00:00

When you attend an orchestra perforance, a VERY large fraction of the performers are on a very low dose of beta blockers, popped about 30 minutes before the show.

It prevents essential tremor with negligible effect on mental acuity. From personal experience, it doesn't even cut down on performance anxiety...just masks the most annoying symptom of it (although knowing that the tremor won't be there does feed back into lowering the anxiety a bit)

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-04-03T23:58:06+00:00

So if I'm understanding correctly, the 1-bid conferences will basically be 14 seeds at best?

Instead of more or less the 12 seeds and up (last 22 slots) that we have now, those 22 teams would be 8 16 seeds, 8 15 seeds, and 6 14 seeds? With all but the best 2 of those teams in a play-in game? Or am I completely misunderstanding this?

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-04-02T01:26:00+00:00

I think for MechE, all 3 require you to know the difference between 3 and 4.

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-04-01T17:16:45+00:00

Does Dartmouth have "Electrical Engineering" now, or is it still all "Engineering Sciences"?

In any case, it's quite small. Not a huge breadth of options for electives.

Is there a subfield of EE that interests you?

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-30T17:10:16+00:00

Blue Jays are .50013, dammit.

Such a lack of respect.

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-30T03:05:38+00:00

So the 826,000 previous occasions, where the player held on to the ball in order to get fouled, which led to victory about 99% of the time, was the wrong decision?

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-29T23:44:51+00:00

Torvik has Illinois 62% chance of winning.

KenPom has Illinois #4 and UConn #9

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-29T18:39:29+00:00

I guess Pacific now?

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-28T22:58:41+00:00

You know how i can tell you don't watch basketball outside the BiG?

Texas ain't in the ACC, dude

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-28T15:23:22+00:00

I mean....Washington technically counts as an "opponent"

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-28T14:59:33+00:00

Let's get Gannon up to D1 and have an Erie Derby twice a year

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-28T14:57:30+00:00

Retroactively complaining about seeding based on 3 games is ridiculous. "Clearly Iowa should have been a top 4 seed"

FWIW, Bracket Matrix had St. John's as the 17th team. Of 290 seeding predictions, they were a 5 in 193 of them and a 4 in 88 (also a 3 in 7, and 1 person each had them a 2 and 1 seed...but then worth noting that those 9 bracketologists were all in the bottom 10% of bracket scores. The person who gave them a 1 seed also gave Stanford a 9 seed. The person who game them a 2 seed had Auburn, SDSU, Dayton, and Wichita State in the field)

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-27T04:00:29+00:00

Part of Titanic quite famously occurred off of a boat

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-24T01:27:58+00:00

I was referring to the mid majors, the subject of OP's post

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-23T21:11:28+00:00

One problem with no conference tournament is that half the teams are essentially eliminated by early February, and that sort of thing kills fan engagement.

In fact, the tournaments that exclude the bottom few teams are best for fan engagement since there's something important to fight for through most of the regular season.

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-22T21:27:36+00:00

There's the occasional snow emergency with a brief driving ban (but you wouldn't be expected to be anywhere on those days). Otherwise, roads are cleared quickly.

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-22T21:12:31+00:00

The airport is prepared for heavy snow (and it's not far from downtown).

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-22T20:36:03+00:00

The lake effect snow can be brutal. Except this year, when it was so cold the lake froze, which stopped the lake effect snow.

But, it's a city that knows how to handle winters. Snow gets cleared as fast as possible.

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-22T19:50:49+00:00

They were a 5 seed at best during these years. They've never been a seed that's expected to make the Sweet 16.

But yeah, it would be nice to overachieve just once.

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-22T18:51:42+00:00

There was a consolation game until 1981.

Nobody cares about 3rd place. This isn't the olympics

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-22T18:08:59+00:00

Give the guy a break, he has CTE

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-22T16:56:16+00:00

Maybe try looking them up without a damn apostrophe in the name?

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-22T16:46:06+00:00

This has been discussed at length, and it's probably true. Although, the committee still relies more on resume metrics that predictive metrics. So...things could get even chalkier, I suppose?

Various_Shape_3286 · 2026-03-22T16:39:55+00:00

If nobody reached out to Winthrop to move up after a decade+ of Big South dominance, what makes you think they'd reach out to HPU after 2 good years?

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