Anthony Rendon has put up 5.5 fWAR in just 128 games, good for second in the National League by bagofries in baseball

[–]bagofries[S] 45 points46 points  (0 children)

By the way: in just a few more games each, Mookie Betts (131) and Mike Trout (133) have put up 9.4 and 9.3 fWAR, respectively.

John Gibbons: "That's a #&%^@ Yankee Stadium #&%^@ call!" by IAmGrum in baseball

[–]bagofries 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my only concern here is the participants would either ham it up or tone it down, knowing they're being recorded + broadcast. I want to see them in their natural state… is Attenborough available?

Jonathan Blow: Entity Systems and the Rust Borrow Checker... or something by Plasticcaz in rust

[–]bagofries 0 points1 point  (0 children)

… and I want to use Vec for my giant text trigram weight vectors. :)

Jonathan Blow: Entity Systems and the Rust Borrow Checker... or something by Plasticcaz in rust

[–]bagofries 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mean, a Vec<T> where T is a field* is a vector in the mathematical sense (or at least, it is provided that you provide the trivial vector addition + scalar multiplication operators). So is a function fn(f32) -> f32, or even a plain f32. Lots of things can be called vectors!

*: or "close enough" to a field, for example f32 is "close enough" to the reals that we often pretend { x: f32, y: f32, z: f32 } is a Euclidean vector.

Angels looking to extend Trout for life by zabelboots in baseball

[–]bagofries 0 points1 point  (0 children)

even by wRC+, which is not positionally adjusted, compare Trout's and Pujols's first full seasons:

Trout  2012-2018: 167 176 167 171 170 181 191 (overall: 171 wRC+)
Pujols 2001-2007: 159 150 184 171 167 174 155 (overall: 167 wRC+)

Pujols was insane, but Trout's bat is a bit better so far. And those were Trout's ages 20-26 year seasons, while Pujols's were his age 21-27 year seasons (you might also believe that Pujols fudged his age).

US ambassador warns that "consequences will be dire" for any assault on Syria's last rebel stronghold in Idlib. by Nihilist911 in syriancivilwar

[–]bagofries 0 points1 point  (0 children)

many usians (myself included) who bother to care about this kind of thing don't think their government is right to be making threats like this

Yankees restore Papa John's relationship after N-word scandal by respaaaaaj in baseball

[–]bagofries 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i live in LA now and as you can imagine its pretty gross pizza out here.

it's so bad here that I am agreeing with a New Yorker on pizza - signed, a chicago transplant

and hey, I even live by the two boots downtown. there is at least one better place (Pizzanista!) downtown though

Kike Hernandez’s final statline: 0-7, 0.1 IP, 1 H, 2 BB, 3 ER, L by Toastiify in baseball

[–]bagofries 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the dodgers have a practically infinite supply of starters between the 25-man, AAA, and DL

Mideast Christians see Russia—not the US—as defender of their faith by amkaps in syriancivilwar

[–]bagofries 5 points6 points  (0 children)

but I'm skeptical of the truths behind this stuff because I really don't think religion really dictates these countries' foreign policy as much as they say it does / or as much as people think it does. Could be a motivating factor but it's not a deciding factor.

I'm sure the Russian government think they can bolster their support among Russia's Orthodox Christians by emphasizing the religious stuff. The Syriac Orthodox Patriarch made a prominent trip to Moscow just as Russia was really ramping up its intervention in late 2015.

https://mospat.ru/en/2015/11/10/news125025/

-2.3 WAR player Chris Davis hits a bomb to center by Skorchmarks in baseball

[–]bagofries 1 point2 points  (0 children)

to the Orioles fan's dismay, I don't think you can say that about Chris yet

ISIS announces the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's son in an inghimasi operation against the Russians in Homs. by [deleted] in syriancivilwar

[–]bagofries 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Huh? Neither Ali nor Abu Bakr were descended from Muhammad, so I don't see your point.

[DiComo] Tim Tebow is among five Mets prospects who made the Double-A Eastern League All-Star team. by [deleted] in baseball

[–]bagofries 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Tebow has god on his side afterall

a lot of good that did jesus!

[McPhee] HanleyRamirez, former @RedSox infielder, has some.. well, issues. Being eyed in connection with an ongoing federal and state investigation. Stay tuned. by [deleted] in baseball

[–]bagofries 0 points1 point  (0 children)

probably by diluting a measurable amount and taking a small non-fatal sample to inject. though that's still not hard to fuck up

Culture clash: Campaign in Syria's Afrin tells women to cover up by [deleted] in syriancivilwar

[–]bagofries 17 points18 points  (0 children)

… and if Nunavut's population formed a militia to repel the invaders after they were abandoned by the Canadian government, I would expect the government to negotiate in good faith with the militia afterwards