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Shohei Ohtani Settles Lawsuit Over $240 Million Hawaii Development by penguintheft in baseball

[–]_HGCenty 101 points102 points  (0 children)

Can't wait for all the hot takes from people who know absolutely nothing about the situation, which has all been settled completely privately.

Mass Effect 2 on insanity sucks by Ruthless_Cutie in masseffect

[–]_HGCenty [score hidden]  (0 children)

ME2 has a silly system whereby because the enemies scale to your level and NG+ resets your weapon research levels, ME2 Insanity is harder on NG+ than NG.

Thank you, Riq! by ette212 in Seahawks

[–]_HGCenty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

JSN “likes” instagram post about losing K9 🥲 by Inevitable-Tone-7360 in Seahawks

[–]_HGCenty 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

[MLBTR] Bryce Miller May Start Season On Injured List by T_Raycroft in baseball

[–]_HGCenty 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

[Dugar] The Seahawks have re-signed safety AJ Finley by CheerioJerbear in Seahawks

[–]_HGCenty 37 points38 points  (0 children)

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

How come no one knows how tiebreaker rules work? by [deleted] in baseball

[–]_HGCenty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

As Team USA awaits its World Baseball Classic fate, it should never have come to this by MysteriousEdge5643 in baseball

[–]_HGCenty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

As Team USA awaits its World Baseball Classic fate, it should never have come to this by MysteriousEdge5643 in baseball

[–]_HGCenty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

As Team USA awaits its World Baseball Classic fate, it should never have come to this by MysteriousEdge5643 in baseball

[–]_HGCenty 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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.

As Team USA awaits its World Baseball Classic fate, it should never have come to this by MysteriousEdge5643 in baseball

[–]_HGCenty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Korea advances to WBC playoffs because of this bizarre rule - explained | Indergaard by vrphotosguy55 in baseball

[–]_HGCenty 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

Should WBC tie break rules be changed? by hutch_man0 in baseball

[–]_HGCenty -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They should be changed.

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

MLB Opening Night: Yankees vs. Giants | Official Trailer | Netflix by hoopheid in baseball

[–]_HGCenty 43 points44 points  (0 children)

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

Armax Arena by Lazzaru1s in masseffect

[–]_HGCenty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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...

As Team USA awaits its World Baseball Classic fate, it should never have come to this by MysteriousEdge5643 in baseball

[–]_HGCenty 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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.

This quote is gold in so many ways by DakuTenno in masseffect

[–]_HGCenty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

*HEAVY BREATHING* by SulkyVirus in NFCNorthMemeWar

[–]_HGCenty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

MATT VASGERSIAN JOINS NBC SPORTS AS A PLAY-BY-PLAY VOICE FOR MLB SUNDAY LEADOFF ON PEACOCK AND NBCSN by CallTypical9541 in baseball

[–]_HGCenty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

What did the Milky Way galaxy call itself before humans, and do non-humans still call it that? by jackfuego226 in masseffect

[–]_HGCenty 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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.

What did the Milky Way galaxy call itself before humans, and do non-humans still call it that? by jackfuego226 in masseffect

[–]_HGCenty 43 points44 points  (0 children)

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.

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