Look at Ray Ray Run

This is where that guy got his information from too: lol and here he is this morning: Stop feeding twitter troll idiots.

It didn't happen. The guy who was spreading that rumor and started it was literally on twitter this morning saying we'll never know the truth because the media won't cover it. He said "I hope we find out." He said he saw a tweet from a Riverdale coworker lol, and then talked to a "source close to the situation." He has 4 twitter followers, lives in a house with a television on the floor in his living room, and he has always lived in Illinois. The tweet never existed, and he never had a source.

Not Sox related, but Freddie Freeman having some pretty rough Covid symptoms is what I heard. Not a good start.

again this never happened, please stop spreading rumors that were started by twitter trolls.

This did not happen. Please stop spreading twitter misinformation.

Darvish will be 34 years old this year and hasnt been healthy in 3 years, and that was his only healthy season since 2013. Yu seems like a good guy but it's an awful signing.

Machine learning and AI is really DS and the future of economy in general, imo. Finding a way to implement that level of automation while still maintaining a sense of work/purpose for the people is going to be one hell of a challenge and hurdle, but it'll be a lot of fun.

1. Depaul 2. Work is not, and that's fine. I have the money set aside to cover the program already so don't need to get any loans or etc. 3. I actually learned R/Python and SQL when I started to model MLB and NCAAB/NBA when I was playing poker fresh out of college. Amazing how easy you pick things up when the thing your working on you love doing. Made a couple bucks exploiting NCAAB total markets and mid-major sides and NBA Daily Fantasy Sports, and then gave it all back in MLB where I learned people who model that are well ahead of me at this time in my life. 4. I hear you; communication is difficult in this world, and there are so many people who honestly just have no idea what you're doing or talking about, even though they know it's valuable. I actually don't mind remote learning as I tend to be better at self-teaching and problem solving than having someone walk me through it. Good luck! I think you'll be fine. It's one hell of an in-demand career right now, and the movement up the ladder is really quick in major corporations for the entry level jobs in that field.

but for systems building and efficiency management, you are in turn making your company money they just don't see it that way. you are correct though, there are modelers and machine learners that run the revenue generation, but from an angle of accountability and profit maximization, you are not viewed as a revenue generator.

Finance and Data Analytics Honestly though, all my coding skills and etc have been self taught online; my education is much more formal on the math and finance side of things. There are a couple free courses I would recommend you try first, and see if it's something that is interesting to you. I would recommend a Python Course to start and learn the basics of the language. In data science you shouldn't really be pigeonholed to any industry. I find the biggest hurdle and issue I see with many machine learning/AI/Data Science people is that they understand code but they don't understand what is useful inputs and they don't really know how to implement operational change that coincide with their tellings/findings. A big part of data science is collecting and analyzing, but the valuable part for business is being able to convert those reports into operational usefulness and a language that everyone can understand. This is a hurdle that many are having a difficult time overcoming. Never forget, regardless of how much money you save the company and how streamlined you make efficiencies, you will never be considered a "revenue generator" for a business.

This was said by Harold earlier, but this type of microdosing is a lot more prevalent than you think, and I'd argue it's really just a "mental" boost and not much else. Certainly not cheating to some degree of gaining some massive edge imo.

Thanks. I was actually surprised I got in because I feel old, but I'm young enough I think (33) where there's a real benefit. I already have a Python, SQL and Dax/PowerBI/Excel Macro background. I'm looking forward to it. I deal with big data now, but I am no where near where I want to be. I got tired of being upset and frustrated by privilege - privilege that I benefited more from than 99.99% of people in this country and I know that and I would like to attack a systematic issue within economics and how we teach/learn it that marginalizes far too many people. How did it go for you? I remember when I first joined my last company I sat and looked at all their data and their entry system and realized they honesty probably wasted over 5000 hours a year on shit that could be solved by a simple 3 line program. This exists all throughout corporate america. It is amazing.

Not all companies are inherently evil at all, but the companies that are most rewarded under the current system absolutely are. And frankly, the greatest issues with the system and the lack of decency shown to many workers - by whom these companies were built - is being magnified even more so due to the pandemic. We can go on and on about what behavior is rewarded. Predatory banking and lending. Undercutting labor laws and outsourcing to impoverished nations. Tax evasion. Employee contracting. Avoiding benefits. Environmental shortcuts. Caufield tries to make this always a left vs right issue, and frankly it's a bunch of BS. While the right is far worse than the left at this point in time - especially with the dear leader promoting no masks - the bottom line is both parties have nurtured this system of inequality for 60+ years. Both parties have ignored the growing wealth gap, and both have produced mass propaganda to discredit and devalue the work done by millions of people in this nation. That's why you see people all over the internet hating on unions; people literally fighting for better pay, better working conditions and workers rights. Why? Because the entire machine that we operate under hates a unified voice to negotiate. Because a unified voice has power and money to compete vs the corporations power and money. While unions aren't perfect by any means and many were mismanaged, the core basis of the union is to lift up the majority and give them a fair pay. People in the middle class fight against minimum wage hikes - despite minimum wage hikes correlating positively to middle income wage increases. People against that absolutely baffle me. And under the current system? Being profitable doesn't even matter; it's all about having the biggest bank account of investors; the biggest venture capitalist. The way the market works now is companies lose endless amounts of money undercutting an industry that operated on micro-margins to begin with (Uber vs Taxis for example), until eventually the companies that can't operate at a loss have to fold, all because the other company could afford to undercut them for a decade - losing money year after year - and now they've obtained the entire market share. Most every massive startup in America now makes money solely off your data - that's the only thing they generate any real revenue off of. That data belongs to you and me and etc.

And those workers are making shit pay and receiving very little protections and have no benefits; we're literally sitting here arguing that these people are essential for the basic functions of human life in this country, and we treat them and pay them like they were replaceable garbage. They've been treated as subhumans for a long time and even in the media today, politicians openly state that it's not real people getting sick, it's the immigrants in the meat processing plants in places like Iowa and etc. The best part is many of them feel threatened or etc, and are working for less than the $600 they'd get on unemployment. It's shameful. No one is saying close the doors on the entire world. That is not feasible, but drastic measures, restrictions and closures clearly saved a lot of people elsewhere, but we're too damn worried about the bottom line to give a shit about the people who actually produce those goods.

Let me break some news to you; the government can print as much money as it wants. Do you know why we have not seen massive economic hardship quite yet? (and don't get me wrong, there has been some as food banks have been packed). Because the actual income levels for 60% of the country went UP with the $600 unemployment add. It's sad to me that the majority of people in this nation working full time aren't even taking home 50,000 a year. If you look at ANY financial growth chart - I can analyze this in 100000 ways, whether Minimum wage hikes or Middle Class growth - the stagnation of the middle class and low classes for 40 years has been breathtaking. If you take the middle class and lower class and give it the same wealth growth as the top 1% since 1980, the middle class income per person (not family) is $280,000 and the lower class income is $115,850. THINK ABOUT THAT! Instead, what happened is every inkling of financial growth in this country since the late 1970's has "trickled down" to the .5 percent beneath the top .5%. You could have still normalized wealth growth at the top 1% and gotten the middle class and lower income people to well above a livable wage. And people shout about inflation! People who do NOT put their money back into the economy are bad for the economy. Billionaires and generational wealth are bad for the economy; they remove a vast majority of their wealth from the actual money pool by hoarding it for generations. Money that is removed from the true spend market and only remains in the investment market inflates the true value of the market, as well as prevents businesses from making profits off your money. So the moral of the story here is for years they taught you - and ME! - the fallacy that was inflation in order to sell the concept that poor people couldn't be helped with safety nets and that if everyone had money, inflation would destroy the country. It's COMPLETE nonsense. The government just printed money that equated to 35% of the national GDP and the value of the dollar and the price of goods DID NOT budge a cent. The price for taking all people out of extreme poverty in the USA? Well under the 5 trillion we just printed. As economics evolves rapidly - which is what is happening right now - we get a better understanding. The national debt took 300 years to reach 2 trillion, then doubled every two years under Obama and now it added 2 trillion in six months under trump! Obviously at some point you need to begin to balance things, but as long as the US dollar is the global currency, and the US remains the wealthiest nation on earth by a SHIT TON, there is absolutely NO EXCUSE that we should have as many people living at such a disadvantage. It's embarrassing, and the people have had enough. That's why the streets are talking now. This by no means is arguing inflation does not exist, but again it exists in a supply and demand world but there is a supply shock right now, and the demand has shrunken for many items. Giving people money to survive - money that is put RIGHT BACK INTO the economy - in no way causes trauma or inflation. The poor people and people struggling are by far the best people to give money too because they spend every dime buying things they have to. This is basic modern Econ 101; and as someone who is going back to school in September to get my masters in Data Science solely to attack big data in economics from a more modernized angle, this is something I love and am passionate about and it's also something that enrages me. Econ has a dark and evil past, and it's riddled with racism and sexism to this day. It is the whitest and malest profession of any of the advanced degree professions. The models that we have used for generations are riddled with racial and class biases on the data inputs, and it has destroyed the lives and opportunities for millions and millions of minority and/or impoverished people. It needs to change and it needs to be fixed.

Containment at this point is damn near impossible but we should at least try

And spare me all this - we did what we had to do for the economy. The EU has more people than the USA, its borders are as open as states, and they were infected first... they have managed the virus well and things are returning to normal in many places. They didnt need to declare martial law or any of the other dumb bullshit nonsense americans try to fear monger into everyone. On 9/11, 3700 americans died and we went to war and signed away our freedoms in the patriot act. We were terrorized as a nation. 130k people are dead, and people are talking about how not getting a hair cut, their nails done or going to the bar is destroying their life lol.

Because they have strong union representation pal. That is far from normal in this country. And even then, as you said the option was come back or were done. Most workers have no bargaining power and it's "do the job or take a hike." Again, impoverished people are literally risking the lives of those around them out of fear of being homeless and starving. The company shouldn't have to chose between bankruptcy or putting people at risk for production that is not life or death. That's really the point. The idea that the decision is one or the other is absurd and shows how broken this is. Should the economy have shut down? Uh yeah dude, there's 130,000 dead fucking americans - many of societies most vulnerable - because we as a country decided their lives were expendable and 35-40% of the country didn't give a shit and care about them. That's despicable man. Were some people going to die? Sure, it's a disease. Did this many have to die? No man, look at the rest of the world. And its because the dollar has come before the heart beat, and that's something everyone should be ashamed of. Ones treatment of those who cannot speak; cannot protect; cannot fight; cannot stand up for themselves defines their true character.

This type of commentary makes me want to stab my eyes out. I said this three months ago on this very forum, but the move the country should have made three months ago was to shut down the entire country for 6 weeks. Take care of whoever absolutely had to work - support the workers and companies with a massive stimulus that actually works for small business and all employed people - by getting them access to all the testing and equipment possible. The rest of the nation is closed; the virus would have dissipated and could have been traced/reduced. When you reopened, the economy would have taken a bit to recover, but the recovery would have happened much sooner. I'm not sure what people are watching, but the virus is getting awful again and places are shutting down again, it's just a matter of time before that is everywhere. The confidence in a V shaped recovery is gone. Some states - so worried about a FUNCTIONING economy - reopened way too early and way to lax and now the economy in those states is going to be crushed for another month or two. In 30 days the extended unemployment benefits run out, and 40 million are still out of work and it's going to get even worse as states are forced to shut down a second time but this time there is no unemployment enhancements, there is no PPP. No more mortgage or rent forgiveness. There is no one helping those people anymore, but the virus isn't going away. Of the 40 million that lost their jobs, about 25 million lost their insurance with it. I'm sad and fearful for all those people, and the answer many who aren't at risk have is - those are the breaks, "you gotta take risks in life." Frankly CWS, I'm sick and tired of the poor people in this nation biting the bullet and sacrificing their ass without any help or assistance from people like us - I've been tired of it for a long damn time, and this pandemic just made it that much worse. No person, out of desperation and fear of homelessness, should have to provide me with a damn thing just so I can go on about my life in a convenient and blinded way.

I love how easy it is for many to tell people to go into work and take risks; no businesses bottom line is worth the life of someone else. Period. End of Story. Why is the virus is killing far more minorities and lower income people? Because they have shit work and safety conditions in meat processing plants and other factories. It's despicable. Why do they HAVE to go to work while so many American's are furloughed or working from home? Because their jobs are deemed essential by you, and the government and etc. ESSENTIAL WORKERS who frequently don't have health care, don't make much more than minimum wage, and certainly don't have paid time off. These people have to work because if they don't work, they won't have a house over their head or food on the table for their kids. I was lucky enough to work from home for quite a while, and then we just closed until who knows when because Chicago isn't really open and there's really not business even if some exists. It sucks being out of work - never been in my life - but it sure as hell beats being poor and forced to go take risks you shouldn't have to. I know the virus isn't very dangerous the many, but the poor people that are being forced to work? Well they tend to live together as a family unit in one house - with more at risk people around them. They don't have the choice, and you acting like some strong union proves that the system is fine is laughable to me. No one should have to sacrifice their life or risk the life of their relatives (you only live once in case you didn't notice) so that you can feel more comfortable in your bed at night or at the grocery store. And you better believe if you think their jobs are so damn important that they should put themselves at higher risk than the average American, than they should be compensated accordingly. It's really sad to me that people feel like they have to go to work right now because if they don't, they'll lose their job, or house or life. The system stopped working long about but it was never on display more than when people started citing the importance of the economy as the death toll climbed.

My bad SCC.

Starters are averaging about 5 innings per start now. And you're already carrying at least 1, likely 2 extra pitchers than you usually would, despite there being no more specialists and no long games. A great pinch runner/defensive replacement is worth a small + on the run/win column over the entire season. The 17th pitcher on a roster is almost certainly worth negative runs/wins on a roster over the course of the entire season. In a sprint, getting every ounce of edge out of your roster is so much more important imo. I'd say you have between 180-215 innings going to relievers this year.

I think he is correct too, ftr, but if you got 7 starters deep then them going 3-4 innings still isn't a problem and is still no reason to carry that many pitchers. Those pitchers on the back end - whenever they pitch - are a liability. If you can't beat out Carson Fulmer for a job, you don't belong. Extra position players if used correctly are + on the run column. I just don't understand teams carrying a ton of pitchers when relievers can't be specialist with the 3 batter rule, and extra innings being short with a man starting on 2nd. I agree many teams will, I just think it's the wrong way. I get there are more going into this decision than MLB playing time and etc - especially with the limited practice by everyone everywhere.

Pinch runners and late inning fielding subs to keep people fresh and maximize every potential run scoring chance is a far better strategy than carrying a ton of pitchers. You're saying to carry 18 pitchers when you're likely already carrying 7 starters, and there's no real extra innings and there's a 3 batter rule. You're talking about carrying a guy to let them pitch 4 innings in a season that assists you in winning 0.

I still say it makes no sense to carry more than 13 pitchers; even with 30 man rosters. At most, I'd carry 14. 1. Bummer 2. Cease 3. Cishek 4. Colome 5. Cordero 6. Fry 7. Giolito 8. Gio Gonzalez 9. Fulmer (yeeesh) 10. Keuchel 11. Lopez 12. Kopech 13. Rodon 14. Herera No other pitcher belongs. They'll probably keep bum Marshall and Guerrero up though. They should send the rest to taxi. That's 10 pitchers they should cut, leaving 4 position players out: Basebe, Romine, Vaughn and Delmonico.