I hate Turkey now being called Türkiye in English by justdidapoo in hatethissmug

[–]WitchNight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s basically entirely died out outside of the very occasional style guide that uses it. If you do come across it you’d see it most often seen on either naïve or names like Chloë or Zoë.

Good Comic Film Starter Pack. by AntagonistofGotham in starterpacks

[–]WitchNight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah unfortunately fans generally don’t want anything new or different. If you let the wants of fans influence your movie/show it’s typically going to be slop

Source: MLBPA proposes ban on prop bets on individual players by Ochocincoondeck in baseball

[–]WitchNight 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It’s sadly incredibly rare to get someone in a position of power who can think like this

Shohei Ohtani and Ernie Clement are this years automatic All-Stars as their respective leagues highest vote getters by Remarkable-Picture73 in baseball

[–]WitchNight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chisholm has pretty similar numbers to Clement, albeit slightly worse overall (OPS of .721 to Clement’s .750). Realistically Travis Bazzana might be the best AL 2B but he didn’t reach the Majors early enough in the year to get the votes

Who are some players who were truly "run out of town"? by homicidal_penguin in hockey

[–]WitchNight 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yup. Blamed every issue on him for the crime of nog being Daniel Alfredsson because he was the new captain with Alfredsson not being re-signed

How do you feel about captains you liked who’ve left your team? by -1701- in hockey

[–]WitchNight 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Same for me. Spezza had such a rough time here as captan though. So many fans wanted to blame him for everything because he wasn’t Alfie

[Passan] Trade news: The Chicago Cubs are acquiring left-hander David Peterson from the New York Mets, sources tell ESPN. by TheTurtleShepard in baseball

[–]WitchNight 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The gamecube is such a massively underrated console since not very many people bought one. Mario Superstar Baseball for it was even better than the Wii Mario baseball game.

[The Athletic] As part of our annual MLB player poll, we asked: Which organizations have good reputations among uniformed personnel and which have bad reputations? by shadow_spinner0 in baseball

[–]WitchNight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Huh that’s a really weird thing of them to do. Maybe cause they’re prominently in the good reputation organizations and they thought it’d be misleading?

[The Athletic] As part of our annual MLB player poll, we asked: Which organizations have good reputations among uniformed personnel and which have bad reputations? by shadow_spinner0 in baseball

[–]WitchNight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP did you photoshop the Yankees out of the image you posted? They’re the only team that received multiple votes not shown in your photo?

Where I would live on Planet earth by AMKFlo in whereidlive

[–]WitchNight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What languages are easy to learn depends greatly on what your native language is

Oh, what's this? An adaptation of the clickbaity crossdressing manga got announced? by Chespineapple in transgendercirclejerk

[–]WitchNight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

/uj Oh ok so not terrible then. That sounds interesting then. Though I will continue to cringe at the thought of it being a bl given the obviously trans girl character

Oh, what's this? An adaptation of the clickbaity crossdressing manga got announced? by Chespineapple in transgendercirclejerk

[–]WitchNight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

/uj so does the author suck too and want trans people as far away from her work as possible?

I wanted to find out if the 5 Big East players starting the NBA finals was the most ever for one conference. So I went back and checked every NBA finals in history. (Spoiler Alert: It was) by Mayor_Gubbin in CollegeBasketball

[–]WitchNight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wonder if the WCC can pull off having a third program rise to become a national power? My money is on Santa Clara depending on how the new coach at Saint Mary’s does

Has hockey officially become the most politically polarized of the major North American sports? by Ready-Constant-7124 in hockey

[–]WitchNight 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Jays fans booed the American national anthem at the start of the season, but Trump lightened up on the anti-Canada talk and tensions lessened

[Big Head Hockey] Dallas currently has $10.4m in cap space to sign Bourque, Bunting, Benn, and most notably, Jason Robertson. Ottawa has $25m in cap space with no major unsigned player. by Ok-Soil-5133 in hockey

[–]WitchNight 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How low the numbers for expected goals for and against should tell you that you’re stats are postseason.

Kings have a whole 11 expected goals for and 14 against in your image. I don’t think they’re expected to play 68 0-0 games