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  1. thebruce44
    LA, LA, LA, WEST COAST, WEST COAST, LA, LA, LA. This is what the voters see, and that is what they will see when it comes time to vote. Burnes needs to have an excellent outing next time up so the voters can see what he does against their damn west coast team. Imagine if he goes 6 strong, no runs, 9 ks? Doubtful he goes 6 no matter how well he is doing to be honest. It will take a good showing against the freaking Dodgers for the voters to maybe take notice. Okay. Last year's winners were from Cleveland and Cincinnati.
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    It's quite possible that Stearns doesn't equate a double felony murder in the same category of a worst moment as drunkenly punching a wall in frustration. Wasn't OJ found not guilty? Of the criminal case, yes. However, he was found "responsible by a preponderance of the evidence for both deaths" in the civil suit. OJ has also been found guilty of a number of other offenses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson#Other_legal_troubles It was a stupid statement even if all OJ did was kill 2 people. The fact that OJ has shown repeatedly to be a bad person makes it even stupider.
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    What thread have you been reading? I've read a ton of posts basically saying "oh well," or "he appears sorry so we should leave him alone." And people being shocked or disappointed in those posters who are outraged by this. I wrote one of those posts. It's not a blase attitude. It's just that it happened, but dwelling on it can only make things worse. What exactly do you want to happen now? What would "cut it?"
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    It shouldn't annoy you; in terms of Wins Above Replacement Wheeler was the most valuable pitcher in the NL in 2021. As such, he should win the pitching award. Sure, Wheeler is behind Burnes and Scherzer in some of the "counting stats" but he also faced hundreds of more batters this year than either of the other two. Maybe Wheeler loses votes for being on a non-playoff team but that speaks nothing to the quality performance he put up in 2021 which is what the award should be based upon. (FWIW, Zach Wheeler leads all players in the NL in WAR regardless of position). Sorry, but this is just such a flawed argument. First off, are you aware that there is more than one version of WAR? I hope so, since that is what your whole argument hinges on. What makes BFs version of WAR what should decide who wins the Cy Young award? And who is arguing about counting stats, especially since the post you responded to literally pointed to quality over quantity. Most informed fans these days look at K/9 and BB/9, where Wheeler trails Burnes and Scherzer. I would actually prefer to see Wheeler get votes over Scherzer, and honestly, I wont lose any sleep if any one of the 3 wins, but this post seems unnecessarily edgy.
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    When I was his age, I did a lot of stupid stuff when I had too much to drink. Hopefully he learns from it. It sucks. Lets move on.
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    On 7/20, Freddy had an ERA of 2.17 and a FIP of 3.12. Since then, he worked through an injury that caused some crooked numbers and had 1 really great start. Now, on 9/27, he sits at an ERA of 2.81 and a FIP of *checks notes* 3.11. I think you go with the guy who got you here assuming he feels confident in his conditioning and body. In terms of Freddy vs Lauer, one of them was worth 4 WAR so far this season. The other, 1.9. I get the idea of going with the hot hand, but come on. Our big 3 go 1-2-3. Let them know, let the other team know. Its there time to be in the spotlight and this team goes as they go.
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    This didn't age well!
  8. thebruce44
    Hope everyone is nearly loaded up for the home stretch. https://mashable.com/article/twitter-bitcoin-tips-nfts-profile-pics
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    The funny thing is, this is almost exactly what BTC did 4 years ago in September. This cycle is still eerily similar to the last one and whales are continuing to accumulate in anticipation of the next 3 months. Sept 2017 saw a crash below 3000, a solid run up in Oct back into price discovery, an early Nov correction to freak out the new investors from Oct, then the price went something like 5x in the next 5 weeks.
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    I'd rather face the revived '39 Yankees than the Cardinals in the playoffs.
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    SOL has been down for about 14 hours now. This is the 7th largest project by market cap and it would seem that it has some pretty serious flaws. I'd imagine the price is going to drop pretty dramatically once people are able to move their coins again.
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    Sorry, but is the bolded part in response to a particular post? Maybe if we can define the question we can work on a response. Honestly, I feel like you want to just come out and say something. What is your main point in this post?
  13. thebruce44
    Agreed on the defense getting manhandled in the trenches being a key to them getting trounced yesterday....but that has nothing to do with Rodgers basically having his worst game as a pro statistically that he didn't leave early due to injury. His and the offense's terrible day also contributed to the defense living on the field, too, and turned a loss into a curb-stomping. The offense certainly performed poorly as well for many reasons including the QB and that's definitely bad. I just don't care because I don't think it matters much if the defensive front is this bad. There can be multiple reasons for a loss and those reasons can vary in terms of how important/impactful they were. That being said, it seems kind of pointless to figure out which reason was the most egregious and then pretend the others didn't exist. I understand if you don't care, but this is a sports message board, so you might want to mentally prepare yourself for topics outside of what you deem most important.
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    To me that's the big mystery -- what problem is crypto trying to solve? Certainly not banking transactions since the current system processes a billion of them per day quite efficiently while crypto is doing a couple hundred thousand at a prohibitive cost per transaction. This is quickly apparent if you actually try and create your own wallet and buy bitcoin with cash. Almost nobody does this because it's easier to just "buy" crypto credits with Robinhood or Coinbase. Anyway, that's all totally fine, there is plenty of profit to be made and you just have to jump ship before the whole thing crashes down. Buy the dip and HODL! The message attached to the BTC genesis block reads: The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks. Hopefully that helps answer your question of what cypto is trying to solve. We can certainly argue how effective BTC is solving the issue currently, but that is a separate discussion.
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    Based on the bold part above, you are doing better than most newish investors and teaching your students well by example. Regarding your other questions, yes- everything at the moment it tied to BTC and its cycles. Altcoins also rise and fall based on BTC for a variety of reasons- I'd be stupid to try to explain my understanding of this to you since you are an econ teacher. My expectation is that we will see ETH pass BTC sometime in late 2022 or early 2023 and the volatility will calm down.
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    Is he the guy who put the Yankees up in that Ramada in Milwaukee?
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    I can't think of a single show of his I watched where his character somehow wasn't the one that stuck with me the most.
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    Or, you know, you could be empathetic to other people's situations. Not to mention, this is a really odd line of conversation. Some things are considerably more important that a job, even if that job is as a professional athlete.
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    This is one of the main reasons I don't invest in crypto - there is no protective moat. Anybody can make them. That's the one big difference with the gold comparison - gold has a big protective moat. You can't make it. Can you elaborate on this thought and how it applies to Cardano? While I am not a fan of Charlies Hoskinson's shilling, it would be incorrect to say that he is not insanely intelligent. He isn't just "anybody."
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    .13 to 3 this year. Pretty amazing. I am not a fan of ADA long term as I don't trust it's founder. I am happy for those that have invested in the project though and am seeing these returns.
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    This is a break of from the Investment thread to focus more specifically on Crypto technology and investment. Today was a good day, with ETH rising over 10% and many alt coins doing even better. BTC is being drug up as well. If history repeats itself, we are entering the strong bull run to close out the year. Most coins are still below the all time highs they hit a couple months back, but the recent increases are very encouraging. *As a general disclaimer, nobody should disclose how much they own or have invested and none of this is investment advise- these markets are very volatile.
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    Why not, I'll start a new thread.
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    You're completely out? Oh man, if you look at historical data, especially by month, things could just be getting started. I still think $200k+ BTC and $20k ETH is possible in this cycle and am holding to my original plan.
  24. thebruce44
    A couple of points to add to the discussion. I think we are going to see some dead arm hit much of our staff in the next month of the season. I think this leads to us continuing to get guys as much rest as possible between starts including into the playoffs. You stick with the guys who got you this far, but it wouldn't surprise me to see some uninspiring numbers from Burnes and Freddy (Woodruff to a lesser extent) the rest of the way. I think Ashby factors in somehow down the stretch and in the playoffs. I would love to see him limited to late high leverage single innings to come in and throw gas. Let him know this is his role and hope he excels for the rest of the way.
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    My main concern with the MCU now is that I am completely lost and don't know how or have the time to get caught back up. So now Loki and Vision are alive, John Snow is part of a group where he is pretty much still just John Snow while the rest of the group can fly, teleport, and change matter...and there is a cartoon where everything is reimagined? Do I have any of that right?
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