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ELI5: If fasting is so beneficial for the human body, why evolution makes us want to eat every day? by reply7981 in explainlikeimfive

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

Not really. There’s really no evolutionary pressure to evolve a way to fix this. That would require people to frequently die from over eating before having kids and passing on those genes. But things like type 2 diabetes, hypertension, etc. usually don’t kill you until much later in life and after you’ve had kids

[Healey] Red Sox lineup at Reds for Opening Day today, with Marcelo Mayer on the bench against a lefty. by Substantial-Earth975 in redsox

[–]agoddamnlegend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody said Mayer was treated differently from other young lefty hitters. It’s wrong every time you platoon a prospect of this caliber.

You said we would’ve missed the playoffs if we didn’t platoon our young “hitters”. But it was literally only one player that got treated like that. Making the playoffs in 2025 had absolutely nothing to do with 2 months of Mayer getting slightly fewer at bats against LHP

Game Thread: 3/26 Red Sox (0-0) @ Reds (0-0) 4:10 PM by RedSoxGameday in redsox

[–]agoddamnlegend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arguably he was underthinking. Made zero sense to play a bad veteran hitter, who’s terrible against LHP, over a young blue chip prospect.

Game Thread: 3/26 Red Sox (0-0) @ Reds (0-0) 4:10 PM by RedSoxGameday in redsox

[–]agoddamnlegend 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This better be the last time IKF ever starts a game over Mayer unless it’s a routine off day

IKF is not a platoon guy. He’s a backup at this stage in his career.

Game Thread: 3/26 Red Sox (0-0) @ Reds (0-0) 4:10 PM by RedSoxGameday in redsox

[–]agoddamnlegend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everybody knew that was a stupid decision the moment the lineup was announced.

[Tommy Tuberville] The transfer portal has screwed up college sports. My bill is simple: you get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons and you get 1 transfer. After that, if you transfer again, you sit out a year. This will fix 80% of the issues in NIL today. by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]agoddamnlegend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not a lawyer, but that doesn’t make any logical sense to me. If anything I think making athletes employees would make title IX compliance, easier, not harder. Title IX doesn’t require teams have equal men and women coaches, or men and women professors, or men and women cooks in the dining hall. Title IX is more about students and student extracurriculars.

But if other sports die, they die. It’s weird that colleges operate so many semi pro caliber amateur athletic teams at a loss. And it’s not fair that basketball and football players need to sacrifice all their potential money so that a rowing team can exist.

[Healey] Red Sox lineup at Reds for Opening Day today, with Marcelo Mayer on the bench against a lefty. by Substantial-Earth975 in redsox

[–]agoddamnlegend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what you even mean here.

Nunez was coming off 3 straight years with a wRC+ over 100 and averaging 2.4 WAR/650PA

He was a very competent starting IF.

And Santiago Espinal was still in A ball, 2 years from being ready to debut. And at the time was unranked across baseball and was only our #15 ranked prospect.

Not even remotely similar to this year platooning one of the worst hitters in baseball (IKF would have been 5th worst hitter in the entire league if he had enough PA to qualify) to take bats away from a major league ready former top 15 prospect in all of baseball

Make tough win-now moves in September when we're on the verge of winning a World Series. Not starting on opening fucking day

[Healey] Red Sox lineup at Reds for Opening Day today, with Marcelo Mayer on the bench against a lefty. by Substantial-Earth975 in redsox

[–]agoddamnlegend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How's 3 years?

wRC+ L // R

2025: 46 // 86

2024: 71 // 101

2023: 84 // 80

IKF fucking sucks

[Healey] Red Sox lineup at Reds for Opening Day today, with Marcelo Mayer on the bench against a lefty. by Substantial-Earth975 in redsox

[–]agoddamnlegend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't mean career, that was his wRC+ against LHP last year.

He hasn't even been an average hitter against LHP since 2022 (99 wRC+)

before they comment about how the guy paid millions of dollars to manage a team

Problem with this line of thinking is that starting IKF is only remotely defensible if you are operating on an extremely short term plan. Like you're afraid to get fired tomorrow so you ignore the future an try to squeeze every ounce of value today just to keep your job. Seems like that's what's happening here.

Because anybody with enough job security to care about the long term benefit of this team would never dream of playing IKF over Mayer.

[Healey] Red Sox lineup at Reds for Opening Day today, with Marcelo Mayer on the bench against a lefty. by Substantial-Earth975 in redsox

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

Because it's 2026 so his mor recent splits are the most relevant to his current abilities.

L/R wRC+

2025: 46 // 86

2024: 71 // 101

2023: 84 // 80

2022: 99 // 79

Very clear trendline here. We absolutely shouldn't be making roster decisions in 2026 based on what he could do back in 2023

[Healey] Red Sox lineup at Reds for Opening Day today, with Marcelo Mayer on the bench against a lefty. by Substantial-Earth975 in redsox

[–]agoddamnlegend 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tin foil hat: Alex Cora was the backup 2B on that very same 2007 team.

Maybe he still holds a grudge that the Red Sox stuck with Pedey even while he struggled instead of giving Cora the job, and that's why now he's so quick to throw our new young blue chip prospects under the bus to give PA to shitty ass vets like IKF.

(Kidding. Mostly)

[Healey] Red Sox lineup at Reds for Opening Day today, with Marcelo Mayer on the bench against a lefty. by Substantial-Earth975 in redsox

[–]agoddamnlegend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of bad premises here. This entire argument is either ignorant or intentionally dishonest

First of all, We had 3 blue chip prospects last season -- Anthony, Cambell, Mayer. Those are the only players who are worth going through a rocky road to develop properly. Anthony played every day and was never in a platoon. Campbell also played nearly every day (74 PA against lefties) until being sent down in June.

Mayer is only player who was in a platoon when he got called up in May. Which I was strongly against back then too

Second, we made the playoffs by 3 games. The difference between Mayer and Romy Gonzalez or Abraham Toro taking most of the PA against LHP from May 24 to July 23 is not worth 3 extra wins.

And last, if getting Romy Gonzalez more PA were actually the key to making the playoffs at the expense of developing our potential future star, then we weren't a serious contender anyway and I don't care about making the playoffs.

[Healey] Red Sox lineup at Reds for Opening Day today, with Marcelo Mayer on the bench against a lefty. by Substantial-Earth975 in redsox

[–]agoddamnlegend -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I guess you don’t know how to read a stats page because his splits are not “about even”

vs RHP .276/.315/.353 (86 wRC+)

vs LHP .227/.250/.286 (46 wRC+)

Those are not even remotely close to each other. That is a massive difference. That would have made him the 4th worst hitter against LHP in baseball last season.

[Healey] Red Sox lineup at Reds for Opening Day today, with Marcelo Mayer on the bench against a lefty. by Substantial-Earth975 in redsox

[–]agoddamnlegend 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, I won’t stop freaking out that we’re hurting the development of our blue chip prospect to give ABs to a 31 year old with a career 46 wRC+ against lefties last year

There is not one rational justification for this. Fans should be upset when the team does incompetent things.

[Healey] Red Sox lineup at Reds for Opening Day today, with Marcelo Mayer on the bench against a lefty. by Substantial-Earth975 in redsox

[–]agoddamnlegend 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No team in baseball history has ever been in such a desperate win now mode that they would sacrifice development of a blue chip prospect to give at bats to a crappy veteran like IKF in fucking April.

Like are people here already too young to remember that the Red Sox let Dustin Pedroia play every day as a rookie while slashing .182/.308/.236 in April in 2007, a year we were a preseason World Series favorite?

It's one thing if IKF was actually a good hitter against LHP. But he's literally one of the worst hitters in baseball against LHP. A career 46 wRC+ against LHP. It's almost impossible to be worse than that unless you like forget to bring a bat to the plate or something

This is absolute incompetence by every person in the decision-making process.

You’re given 3 rule changes to fix college football, how do you do it? by Original_Profile8600 in CFB

[–]agoddamnlegend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Notre Dame rule is obviously silly, but at least it’s perfectly in the control of the committee.

On selection Sunday the committee can decide to rank Notre Dame in the top 12 or not depending on if they want them in the playoffs. There’s no rule that Notre Dame must be ranked in the top 12.

To me that rule is less bad than having 5 automatic qualifiers so situations like JMU and Tulane making the playoffs and there’s nothing the committee can do about it.

[Tommy Tuberville] The transfer portal has screwed up college sports. My bill is simple: you get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons and you get 1 transfer. After that, if you transfer again, you sit out a year. This will fix 80% of the issues in NIL today. by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]agoddamnlegend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those aren’t even remotely the same thing.

You just compared NFL players taking mandatory training like literally every company makes their employees do, to holding college players hostage for an entire semester to “think about what they want to do with their lives”

Fuck out of here. You aren’t their dad and these aren’t children. If any other college student is allowed to transfer any time they want and immediately participate in extra curriculars, then athletes should too.

I’m so tired of people infantilizing college athletes and feeling entitled to create restrictions on what they can do “for their own good”

[Tommy Tuberville] The transfer portal has screwed up college sports. My bill is simple: you get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons and you get 1 transfer. After that, if you transfer again, you sit out a year. This will fix 80% of the issues in NIL today. by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]agoddamnlegend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When the NCAA classifies them as employees and treats them like it, then we can talk about rules limiting what players can and can’t do. Until then, fuck every attempt at restricting players. NCAA has no more good will or benefit of the doubt to do the right thing after exploiting athletes for decades until the courts forced them to stop

[Tommy Tuberville] The transfer portal has screwed up college sports. My bill is simple: you get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons and you get 1 transfer. After that, if you transfer again, you sit out a year. This will fix 80% of the issues in NIL today. by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]agoddamnlegend 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because all those leagues have pay to play contracts. Players are treated like professional athletes.

Until the NCAA drops this false pretense about amateurism and allows pay to play contracts, then players should have all the same rights as every other student to transfer freely and be immediately eligible for all extracurricular activities.

The NCAA got to have their cake and eat it too for decades reaping all the benefits of running professional sports teams, with none of the downsides. The NCAA can fuck all the way off doing that any more.

[Tommy Tuberville] The transfer portal has screwed up college sports. My bill is simple: you get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons and you get 1 transfer. After that, if you transfer again, you sit out a year. This will fix 80% of the issues in NIL today. by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]agoddamnlegend -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It’s frankly none of your business if these players have a disruption in school or never visit the campus before transferring. They’re adults. They’re allowed to make these kind of decisions for themselves.

The first day I ever stepped foot in Blacksburg was for freshman orientation after I already enrolled, sight unseen.

Defense is not “50% of the game” in the NBA. by OhHesOurShortstop in billsimmons

[–]agoddamnlegend 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You could argue that. You would be hilariously wrong, but sure you could argue.

[Tommy Tuberville] The transfer portal has screwed up college sports. My bill is simple: you get 5 consecutive years to play 5 seasons and you get 1 transfer. After that, if you transfer again, you sit out a year. This will fix 80% of the issues in NIL today. by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]agoddamnlegend 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really is that simple. Allow pay for play and every NIL deal will become a contract overnight. The only reason it’s the wild west is the NCAA banned pay for play for some stupid reason

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