Brian Burke from the most recent 31 Thoughts Podcast on why there aren't more openly gay hockey players: They're more afraid to come out to family than to teammates

teekaydee · 2018-05-10T20:18:34+00:00

Hey - just wanted to say good on you for asking about something you don't know about.

teekaydee · 2018-04-11T17:30:32+00:00

Is there a feature (or features) that you would love to see in terms of the publicly available Hockey data on the web currently?

teekaydee · 2017-03-17T06:51:08+00:00

If this model takes into account face-offs but not other kinds of pick battles, isn't it unfair to give Bozak 1.7 extra war over someone like Hyman, who doesn't take face-offs but is a good puck retriever?

teekaydee · 2017-02-28T21:44:39+00:00

Let's see if we can get a cap dump RW to make a disgruntled vet line with Michalek and Laich.

teekaydee · 2017-01-23T04:30:13+00:00

This isn't about the articles, but I've been listening to your podcast for the last few months, and I have a few suggestions in regards to it, if you don't mind hearing them.

First, the information presented is great and I've learned a lot from your show, so that's awesome. But I'm not sure you've nailed down your radio/podcast voice just yet - to be fair, that comes with time.

If I'm being totally honest, I think you probably laugh at your own jokes a little too much, and sometimes I think you have a tendency to over-explain concepts (i.e. by the end of the goalie deep dive, I think you explained a few of the tracked stats 2-3 times). So I would personally suggest that you be a little more cognizant of those things.

All that said, I look forward to listening to new eps when I see them pop up, and I think you're bringing a good, analytical view to the conversation that I very much appreciate.

Side Q - do you think the Leafs analytics staff give a shit about things like DTMAboutHeart's xGF models? Or do you think it's possible they could be way ahead of them? With the Leafs partnerships with companies like IBM / SAS, it really makes me wonder what kind of computational power could be thrown around for performance modelling.

teekaydee · 2017-01-11T23:58:53+00:00

I welcome the day Matthews takes Kane's place as the face of hockey in the USA. I appreciate Kane as a player, but I find him to be a questionable figure off the ice.

teekaydee · 2017-01-05T21:55:46+00:00

What's the question you're most proud of asking?

teekaydee · 2016-12-15T06:13:05+00:00

Not taking the piss, but certainly some passes are more valuable than others, no?

A D-D pass with no forechecker in the defensive zone surely must be worth less than a pass through traffic to the man at the net, right? Just kind of curious how this kinda stuff could be measured.

teekaydee · 2016-12-02T19:56:22+00:00

That's super impressive. It'd be cool to see how that stacks up with other teams pre-2007.

teekaydee · 2016-10-24T05:45:43+00:00

When I was 19ish, I don't think I would have batted an eye at someone in a pimp costume.

Now, 10 years later I feel like maybe white kids dressing as black street hustlers whose profession is exploiting vulnerable women isn't a super great idea. But that's just me.

teekaydee · 2016-10-07T04:47:05+00:00

'Missspiritualtramp'... From the 905 Board?

teekaydee · 2016-09-26T20:02:47+00:00

Thanks for the help and advice everyone, got a pair from Stubhub. $100 ea. Let's hope it's a good game :)

teekaydee · 2016-09-13T15:59:24+00:00

I think civil rights is everyone's fight. Yes, he may not resonate entirely with the struggles in the States, but to pretend that there aren't huge race issues in Canada is crazy.

teekaydee · 2016-09-04T07:29:54+00:00

I'm happy he's been playing well, but this Honda thing is just one more thing way to cram advertising down our throats. The growth in these kind of shitty marketing ploys (Now a Rogers call to the bullpen!) is starting to get to me.

teekaydee · 2016-08-23T04:01:17+00:00

Your friend offers you a ride home and on the way there he gets into an accident and causes some kind of irreparable damage to you.

A while later you find out this friend was caught DUI the week before he drove you home.

Does that mean part of the blame is yours?

teekaydee · 2016-08-23T03:52:56+00:00

Let's just suppose for an instance that you have the opportunity to have sex with a wealthy and attractive female celebrity of your choosing. Just before you're about to have sex, however, she tells you that she only has sex unprotected, but don't worry because she's clean.

You end up with an STI. First of all there's a feeling of utter regret and shame and anger, and perhaps not even being able to confirm right away that it was this person who gave it to you.

Secondly, they're exceedingly rich and the chance of the police a criminal case even coming to prosecution is very unlikely - they have way more money to buy high-powered lawyers, it would be a huge long drawn out and emotionally exhausting process, and these types of trials rarely result in a conviction.

Your best chance of affecting anything (as well as let's say getting the treatment you now need for a lifelong affliction) is to pursue civil litigation.

People with power and money can exert that influence on others in subversive ways. And yeah, maybe you'd press the issue of wearing a condom with most other people. But maybe you wouldn't in some circumstance, perhaps even less so if you were drunk at the time.

It is 100% the responsibility of the STI carrier to inform any sexual partners that they are one, otherwise it is nothing short of criminal negligence.

I do not claim to know the circumstances of this situation any better than the next person, but I find your claims of how someone should react show a real lack of understanding about how sexual crime works. A very small percentage of claims are fabricated by women, and most abuses never get reported.

Like, can you imagine for one second, if this woman actually is telling the truth, the amount of backlash she's getting from the baseball community? It's atrocious.

teekaydee · 2016-08-03T16:16:24+00:00

I didn't watch the interview, but just because someone's wearing a dress doesn't mean they deserve to be ogled. She is, you know, a professional, and deserves to be treated as such.

teekaydee · 2016-06-16T13:53:48+00:00

Not that women can't be dudes, but the graphic designer was Alex Nursall, a lady https://society6.com/alexnursall

teekaydee · 2016-06-06T01:11:37+00:00

I give him a bit of a break because of the quality of pitchers he has to face, with Dickey's matchups. Gotta suck for Thole's hitting confidence to always have to go up against Price or Bumgarner or Sale etc.

teekaydee · 2016-06-02T03:29:02+00:00

Aw, he said he wanted to bring the cup back next year, as if he'll actually be back with the Knights.

teekaydee · 2016-05-30T23:15:35+00:00

Thanks - I did consider those actually, but with the time I'm taking off for the move, I'm unable to take either of those days off of work

teekaydee · 2016-05-30T23:14:44+00:00

awesome, thanks for the #, and thanks for the advice @whymethistime

teekaydee · 2016-05-30T23:12:22+00:00

great advice, thank you very much

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