The Swamp

RSmith

I agree about DeRozan being the kind of model citizen and face of the franchise that you'd love to see on the team when it finally makes the Finals. On off-the-court stuff, this trade would be madness. But I think the on-court outweighs it. The one thing that leaves me scratching my head: I'm not su...

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Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 2:26 pm The dude is the embodiment of an actual fedora come to life.

That is just magical to try to picture. :)

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Firstly, I highly doubt that is the reason. More importantly, the man is named after a hat. :)

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I think Sabathia is going to have more trouble than he should and I think somehow Buehrle is going to factor in as a false comp or something. That would be a travesty. I liked Buehrle, obviously, but he's no HoF. He's basically a modern-day Jack Morris (who is also in no way a legitimate HoF). Morr...

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mister d wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 9:29 am I think Sabathia is going to have more trouble than he should and I think somehow Buehrle is going to factor in as a false comp or something.

That would be a travesty. I liked Buehrle, obviously, but he's no HoF. He's basically a modern-day Jack Morris (who is also in no way a legitimate HoF).

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I had this discussion with a buddy over the weekend about current guys going to Cooperstown. CC's a HoFer, right? Maybe not on the first try, but he held the Heavyweight Championship Belt for best pitcher on earth from in 2007 (or maybe through 2009 depending on where you see Timmay), and anyone ov...

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I love that his first response was to blame it on rap music. I'm sure he's a completely different guy now! I will say that the majority of them certainly looked like lyrics. No excuse, of course. But I am also glad I didn't have a public outlet for all the stupid shit I said when I was 17 (none of ...

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To expand on my prior post, “win-now” moves tend to get criticized but you never know how long your title window will be open. The Cavs got a lot of shit for overpaying FAs, but between the Kyrie injury in the 2015 Finals and the Durant move, they really only had a one year window. And they don’t w...

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Worst case scenario they just cleared a ton of cap room for next year’s FA class by trading DDR. This is a huge point. And while I don't take SA for fools at all, I still hold out hope that they may have agreed to take back one of our other terrible contracts as well... :) Best case scenario, they ...

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He doesn't have to do shit this year. It is his last year on his current contract. He is going to LA next season. Either Clips or Lakers. Neither of those teams are going to care if he doesn't give it his all this year, or claims to be hurt and miss a majority of games. He will get paid next year b...

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<Knows where he is from> <lack of surprise evident> What surprises me is that these are six or seven years old. Given the stakes surrounding a professional athlete's image, I'm shocked that seemingly no one (agent, family, friend, etc.) strongly urged him to delete these at any point... The only th...

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How excited would you be if I told you Kawhi really really really doesn't want to be there? I would be terrified, given what happened last year. However: - Though I have some substantial grievance with Masai Ujiri over the Ibaka and Powell contracts, he generally seems very bright and competent. I ...

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https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1019555631810801666?s=19 From Reddit: https://m.imgur.com/W4DRPnA Though the situation with SA last season does worry me a bit, I'm extremely excited by this. DeMar seems like a fine player and a wonderful man, but I honestly think that the Raps had gone as far as...

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<Knows where he is from> <lack of surprise evident> What surprises me is that these are six or seven years old. Given the stakes surrounding a professional athlete's image, I'm shocked that seemingly no one (agent, family, friend, etc.) strongly urged him to delete these at any point...

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degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Jul 17, 2018 10:43 pm
RSmith wrote: ↑Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:59 pm I hope Happ gets in the game. He deserves it.
year of the home run, 9 homers in this game!

Happ is going to get a save! (maybe)

Still none out. Might not be a save situation! :)

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I hope Happ gets in the game. He deserves it.

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A_B wrote: ↑Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:50 pm
RSmith wrote: ↑Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:47 pm
A_B wrote: ↑Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:46 pm I don’t use either. I just expect mister d to post shit I can agree with.
That's certainly one strategy. ;-)

Worked so far. Best analytics swamp guy since Tommyboy!

Hmm, I think I missed him...

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A_B wrote: ↑Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:46 pm I don’t use either. I just expect mister d to post shit I can agree with.

That's certainly one strategy. ;-)

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I’m not offended. With all due respect, you fairly clearly are. And I'm honestly sorry for that. Like I said, I have no problem not using any particular term if it offends someone; that's only right. The point of the rest of my comments was really just "to me, this shouldn't be offensive"...

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I’d have to do it again, but I think DRS tended to have wider spreads and overvalue high variance positions like LF and 3B and maybe skewed too hard on singular plays, some of which I imagine are explainable by shifts. Once there’s full field f/x data both of those will be obsolete. Agreed; you rea...

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So Trump's excuse is that he said 'would' instead of 'wouldn't'? Man, I would have loved to been in the room to see what the other options were. Hilarious! You know damn well, that any suggestion that involved an apology was a non-starter and anything that involved a more complicated explanation wa...

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mister d wrote: ↑Tue Jul 17, 2018 8:59 pm I use Fangraphs. They seem to make a better attempt at valuing defense.

Interesting. I'll read up on the differences...

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Anyone getting anything for Prime Day? At the very least, get the free $5 when getting a $25 Amazon gift card. I'm mildly disappointed there is a Prime Day this year; this: Amazon Prime Day. (Sidenote, 7, 11, & 2017 are prime numbers) was such a neat explanation, and 2018 is in no way a prime n...

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Andujar’s bat now might make him a borderline all-star but his patience might make him a guy the league can figure out. I don’t think his projection is all in one direction. Fair enough. And with regards to the Martinez comp and admitting it’s an arbitrary cutoff, Machado already has two 6+ WAR sea...

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A_B wrote: ↑Tue Jul 17, 2018 8:45 pm Got you. That is surprising to me.

Me too, honestly.

(Sorry for the spurious post quoting my own post. It won't let me delete it as it's been replied to.)

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Machado is less than three years older than Andujar and at this point has to play himself off of HoF pace. Andujar’s ceiling isn’t there, if anything close to a one for one was on the table the Yankees would have to. Consider this -- based on WAR (so, including defensive value or lack thereof), Mac...

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Machado is less than three years older than Andujar and at this point has to play himself off of HoF pace. Andujar’s ceiling isn’t there, if anything close to a one for one was on the table the Yankees would have to. Consider this -- based on WAR (so, including defensive value or lack thereof), Mac...

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Probably should be said I think if Machado were traded to the Yankees he’d remain a Yankee, so I see it as a long term replacement. That certainly makes a difference. But do you think that if the Yanks did not trade for him, and instead chose to pursue him after the season, the chance to sign him w...

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Machado is less than three years older than Andujar and at this point has to play himself off of HoF pace. Andujar’s ceiling isn’t there, if anything close to a one for one was on the table the Yankees would have to. Consider this -- based on WAR (so, including defensive value or lack thereof), Mac...

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I’m now deep in curiosity about where “Andujar straight up” or with a 3rd piece prospect would rank against what Baltimore will get. I’d do that one. I think Andujar is going to be very, very good. Actually, he's OPS+'ing 118 so far, so perhaps more appropriate to say I think he'll continue to be v...

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Theres always selling bottles of water. The de facto summer job for teens that cant get on at the airport. Like, where? At a variety store or something? Or do people just randomly walk down the street selling water? I'm genuinely confused by this... Yes. Huh. Learn something new every day, I suppos...

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HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:23 am Theres always selling bottles of water. The de facto summer job for teens that cant get on at the airport.

Like, where? At a variety store or something? Or do people just randomly walk down the street selling water? I'm genuinely confused by this...

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I cannot fathom how someone dislikes the Beatles, but you must at least respect the Beatles for their influence on music and how they brought "art" into rock and roll. Well, their influence/impact is objectively demonstrable, so I certainly don't deny that. They just have never been much ...

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I envy your ignorance to America's gun culture. The answer to every slaughter and massacre is "more guns." However you get to that answer is the path these sociopaths take. Arm teachers. Add guards. Take veterans, make them guards, part them at the school. Does he have PTSD? Who fucking c...

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Considering the baseless depths to which the GOP will go and callousness of their collective character, I'm going to bank on the fact they were entirely on board with everything. Sure I don't know it to be 100% true because I can't be a fly on the wall for all their disgusting meetings. But let's g...

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Once again... These people didn't know they were duped until they were told they were duped. They were given plane tickets to an event in DC for a pro Israel award and interviewed. These interviews were conducted a while ago. Just now they are complaining. Just now. Now that they've been outed. The...

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L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 11:08 am For the record, "cunt" is still okay when you are using it describe a man, right? Like "man, look at this cunt president sucking Putin's dick right now."

Crack on with it, I'd say. :)

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That it would actually be really nice if both of those things happened. But a guy on a message board can't make the whole world stop saying things - he can point out that it's not civil to say things that are demonstrably mean and legitimately harmful to huge numbers of others. In context, absolute...

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If someone who you are interacting with is offended by a word, than you should probably stop using it in their presence. Not the same as censorship - more like politeness. Well, I certainly entirely agree with that. Though I do think one should consider the context fully before deciding to be offen...

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I think you need to recognize the difference between someone telling you the word should be eliminated and someone telling you to eliminate the word Oh no, you're totally right. The former I am fine with, it's an opinion like anything else. I think you missed his point. Possibly. Elaborate, please?

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