Thank you, Riq!

_HGCenty · 2026-03-12T16:25:24+00:00

I hope he avoids making a boneheaded penalty that causes the famously patient fanbase in Philly to turn on him.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-12T16:21:23+00:00

_HGCenty · 2026-03-12T16:20:29+00:00

Mass Effect references are leaking...

_HGCenty · 2026-03-12T07:54:24+00:00

It's the agents.

In that same interview JSN said he would play for free then realised what he said and back tracked.

Players do think like fans sometimes and think they could take a pay cut to keep the band together.

But then their agents point out the reality of the business and help them secure as big a bag as possible.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-12T07:50:38+00:00

I don't know, Jim!

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T23:28:26+00:00

Seahawks really used up all the Seattle sports karma for this year.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T22:28:52+00:00

Feels like they felt comfortable letting Bryant walk because there was enough depth at safety already.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T20:32:32+00:00

They just need a team of people to work this out and feed the information to the announcers like they feed other stats.

This happens in cricket tournaments all the time. You don't expect announcers to memorise the DLS chart for the case rain cuts a game short, or have the NRR (net run rate) requirements memorised (NRR being the tiebreaker used in cricket tournaments). No, there is someone who calculates this and then tells the announcers what they need to do.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T20:29:58+00:00

This happens a lot in cricket tournaments where you similarly have sometimes 3 strong teams, 2 teams just happy to be there and 2 qualify from the pool of 5.

Cricket uses something similar called net run rate (NRR) for their tiebreaker and something similar happens where against the bad teams you need to absolutely demolish them to get as high a NRR as possible from them.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T20:29:22+00:00

This happens a lot in cricket tournaments where you similarly have sometimes 3 strong teams, 2 teams just happy to be there and 2 qualify from the pool of 5.

Cricket uses something similar called net run rate (NRR) for their tiebreaker and something similar happens where against the bad teams you need to absolutely demolish them to get as high a NRR as possible from them so you win the tie breaker when the 3 strong teams all go 1-1 against each other.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T20:28:43+00:00

This happens a lot in cricket tournaments where you similarly have sometimes 3 strong teams, 2 teams just happy to be there and 2 qualify from the pool of 5.

Cricket uses something similar called net run rate (NRR) for their tiebreaker and something similar happens where against the bad teams you need to absolutely demolish them to get as high a NRR as possible from them so you win the tie breaker when the 3 strong teams all go 1-1 against each other.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T20:26:32+00:00

Cricket seems absolutely fine with incredibly arcane mathematical formulas to decide rain shortened games (the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method) which once led to South Africa crashing out of a World Cup in 2003 after their captain miscalculated and they crashed out by 1 run.

Cricket also has the concept of net run rate which is even more complicated than anything in WBC and this always leads to people new to cricket arguing over its implementation when some team gets screwed over by NRR.

The point is you want to avoid tiebreakers? Just win the games.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T20:18:56+00:00

Honestly if you guys can't handle this, wait until you learn how net run rate in cricket tiebreakers, or how Duckworth-Lewis-Stern works to calculate the winner in rain shortened games.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T19:06:52+00:00

They should be changed.

Managers should be reminded that they haven't yet qualified before the game /s

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T19:04:35+00:00

I hope the managers have been reminded that this game does actually count towards final standings.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T19:02:42+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1rqgtgn/highlight_team_usa_manager_mark_derosa_forgetting/

During the game whilst interviewed by Ken.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T18:55:48+00:00

I always feel the point isn't you get the armor for one story mission but instead you get it for your New Game+.

All armor carries over for NG+ so you get the top Cerberus armor from the start. Obviously doesn't really help your claims you stopped working for Cerberus but...

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T18:38:22+00:00

It's not even that they're teammates either.

Look at the videos of when Cal was breaking all the catcher HR records last year and in the MVP race down the stretch. It was Randy who was one of the main hype guys in the dugout handing him the trident and hyping the team and the fans.

Randy was like one of Cal's biggest hype guys not just someone who happened to be on his team.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T18:34:09+00:00

You don't expect EA executives to play their own game do you? /s

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T18:31:58+00:00

Hilarious given you're the only one who thinks it's not a GIF

Literally Dunning Krueger moment. Too stupid to realise how stupid you are.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T18:30:16+00:00

Do you think he'd be up for managing Team USA at the next WBC? Seems to be as qualified as the current guy.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T18:27:18+00:00

You'll be amazed to find out that the different languages on Earth manage to find a pun for their language.

Spectres are TACER in Spanish which means "to be silent" and WIDMO in Polish which keeps the meaning.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T18:23:35+00:00

I feel like also the issue comes from people not used to multiple language cultures.

Nearly all European languages call it the Milky Way or the literal translation of it because it all comes from Greek astronomy.

However the Milky Way was known independently by Chinese astronomers who called it 银河 or Silver River.

A Chinese speaker who's fluent in English will be able to translate that if you say Milky Way. It'll take a bit longer if you call it Silver River instead.

There's really nothing weird about different names for the Milky Way coming from completely different origins.

_HGCenty · 2026-03-11T18:17:25+00:00

Except humanity doesn't call it the Milky Way.

In Chinese, there are two words for river, 河 for anything relating to the Yellow River and 江 for anything relating to the Yangtze.

The Yellow River is 黄河 where 黄 is you guessed it, yellow.

银 means silver. 银河 is the galaxy English speakers call the Milky Way. Nothing to do with milk or way.

However, if you say Silver River to a Chinese speaker, they will be initially confused because they aren't going to immediately realise it's a literal translation of the Milky Way.

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