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This forum is a laughable. @Tonybumps old posts to shame a poster and all the mods circle jerk him and pat his back. Tony always attacking posters and getting high fives from his butt buddies. I bump old posts where everyone calls me an iidiot when they ended up being wrong again (who knew?) while I dont respond with name calling and the mods delete the thread and hide it. This after a poster pointlessly attacked me and I respond and a mod tells me to stop responding lol. Enjoy the circle Jerk forum fellas.

Ron, I remember people absolutely trashing me on this. Some told me I knew nothing about basketball yada yada. Even more were telling me the bulls had 4 good nba players and a bright future and I was hating on Wendell Carter. The bulls are complete trash and desperately need 1-1 this year but won't end up with it i don't think. Good on you owning it. Sexton is gonna be a star. What a last 30ish games from him. Kid was awesome at Bama and young with a bad team but his progress has been amazing to watch. Huge 4th tonight vs the hawks. This is also gonna be a bold prediction but he beat the best team in the east tonight.

For all that seem to think cohen won't care about losing money. Found this excerpt from Black Edge and found it interesting. Cohen is competitive and still wants to make money. Cohen also obviously a huge pos as black edge lays out well.

Stop escalating? Lol the guy posts to me out of left field and me responding is the problem. Got it pal. I'll make your job easier as this isn't enjoyable for me with a barrage of trolls that apparently I should never respond to; as if I don't ignore 90% of them. Have a good holiday and best of luck.

Oh really? I had no idea. 🙄 Lets just say I'm tall enough for your implied short joke to merely make you look like a d and not offend me in the process. Continue on there champ. How old are you? 12?

Might be the weirdest question I've ever been asked online. I'm married and not interested. Sorry buddy.

It literally shows how every team did in every year. Every dot on that chart is one team, their payroll and their results from a single year. There are no averages there. Not sure why you continue to say otherwise.

Might want to learn how to do something basic, like quoting a post, before calling into question said posters intelligence.

Lets relax on the sustained success stuff until we actually sustain success for at least two years. You're getting a little ahead of yourself.

No data has been manipulated; I have no idea what you're talking about. Have a nice night, I'm out. These aren't averages; they are countless data points that show a curve which clearly indicates that more money spent is directly correlated to more winning.

How is it misleading to present information that very much shows that the more money you spend, the more wins you are likely to have. The low payroll teams that do well are the exception to the rule, they are not the rule in itself. They are lauded because they "overcome" the deficit they are put in at the beginning of the year. The fact is, in baseball, if you spend more money, you are more likely to win. There's really no refuting that. Outliers exist in all walks of life; in every statistical set that exists. Just because Mike Trout was drafted with the 25th pick in the draft doesn't mean teams should trade the #1 overall pick every year for the 25th pick. Spending money puts you in a better position to succeed; just as drafting #1 puts you in a better position than drafting #25.

How is data false? That is a graph of payrolls and wins. There is nothing nebulous about that data. "Try thinking on your own" literally just means ignore evidence, believe what you want. I came to my conclusions based on my thoughts, plus substantiated evidence. That's how positions are justified in my world. I can't just have opinions without areas of support.

I'm sorry that I use data to actually substantiate my positions; I don't enjoy speaking from places of ignorance and when I do I'm always happy to be called on it.

I'll post this again because I edited it and you seemed to have missed it: Edit: Listen, I know the theme of soxtalk of late is to pile on and pretend that I act like an expert everywhere; because I respond on topics by which I'm knowledgeable on and avoid topics of which I'm not, but I merely responded to a poster who said "rich people are more intelligent than non-rich people." I refuted that with a study, and then you said I was generalizing. That's nonsense; I was refuting a generalized view from another poster.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dont-be-fooled-by-baseballs-small-budget-success-stories/ You can disagree, but cash buys wins: