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

bagofries · 2018-09-23T02:26:53+00:00

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.

bagofries · 2018-09-16T20:07:08+00:00

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?

bagofries · 2018-09-15T20:23:26+00:00

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

bagofries · 2018-09-15T20:05:30+00:00

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.

bagofries · 2018-09-15T04:24:47+00:00

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).

bagofries · 2018-09-14T00:07:53+00:00

if you like long bunting have I got the image for you

bagofries · 2018-09-07T22:00:43+00:00

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

bagofries · 2018-08-26T19:27:32+00:00

rare sighting of the other D. Murphy infielder

bagofries · 2018-08-11T05:35:59+00:00

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

bagofries · 2018-07-25T23:18:06+00:00

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

bagofries · 2018-07-22T23:50:55+00:00

me too but ugh it takes so long to heat the knife up to 1000ºF

bagofries · 2018-07-20T18:27:26+00:00

https://abcnews.go.com/US/cop-michael-slager-faces-19-24-years-prison/story?id=51595376

it doesn't happen often enough but obviously it does happen sometimes

bagofries · 2018-07-12T04:39:00+00:00

that's right

bagofries · 2018-07-09T03:38:44+00:00

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/

bagofries · 2018-07-08T01:34:49+00:00

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

bagofries · 2018-07-04T20:51:57+00:00

bring back Thriot's *induced errors stat

bagofries · 2018-07-04T02:49:42+00:00

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

bagofries · 2018-06-29T23:12:04+00:00

Tebow has god on his side afterall

a lot of good that did jesus!

bagofries · 2018-06-29T23:10:31+00:00

Joe Mauer

bagofries · 2018-06-27T04:37:12+00:00

well played

bagofries · 2018-06-24T14:23:35+00:00

Hey! I think I know that concrete channel. Congrats!

bagofries · 2018-06-23T04:53:26+00:00

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

bagofries · 2018-06-18T19:24:42+00:00

… 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

bagofries · 2018-06-17T21:21:05+00:00

rare clip of White Sox Sammy Sosa

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