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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 04:39 PM) This is where I would love to see my customized pitching stat that factors in run support along with the pitchers numbers and defense played behind the pitcher to get an expected win total. I like the idea. Don't forget the patent.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 03:03 PM) Do you really think guys didn't play harder when Chris Sale was on the mound? Because frankly, I think that's frankly crazy talk. I think they did or his win total would have been even worst. No stat is perfect. When you really start to consider all the variables that come into wins. Does the other team decide it's a good day to rest starters? Is the guy pitching on a day when the other team's ace is on the mound and the rest of the team is thinking hitting and not fielding?

I wonder who will be the first politician to declare (erroneously) that their side "won". Your side may have lost less than the other, but y'all lost.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 10:16 AM) I guess I'd put it this way: what do pWins tell us about a pitcher's performance that some other stat doesn't tell us better? Perhaps it is the one stat that incorporates or covers that catch all we call "intangibles"? Where else would you find a stat that shows his teamates play just a little bit harder when he is on the mound? Or worse, the guy that his teammates seem to take the day off with? I could be, and mostly am, convinced that W-L is the least valuable of the stats we find on the back of a baseball card. I haven't been convinced yet that we should throw it out.

I read where Cruz was quoted secondhand as saying he will not use any procedural maneuvers to stop it. Of course he will vote no.

I believe you have to look at the complete picture instead of looking at any stat in isolation. While I believe we've historically over used W-L record, I also believe there is a danger in underusing it. When you think about a pitcher that "gets the job done" are you thinking WHiP or WiNS? Do you want a guy that shouldn't be winning but somehow it keeps happening (winning ugly) or a pitcher that is pitching much better than his record and appears snake bit (losing pretty)? We know that both are due to regress to the mean. And eventually you want the guy with better overall stats, but at that moment . . .

I am developing a lot of empathy for Boehler. He is in about the worst situation that any speaker has had to deal with, and I honestly do not believe it is even 10% his fault. I don't think anyone could have provided a solution that would work in this situation. Basically as I am now seeing this it's like a poker player getting a crappy hand, no matter how you played it you were going to have to fold.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 08:44 PM) Greg and I go picking Daisies every Sunday morning. QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 08:45 PM) Lots of third person sexy talk, no doubt. Fixed A to = B too subtle?

The fact that so many of us feel connected is probably why we stay active year round and the arguments get so intense.

Thank you. But out of the thousands and thousands of grad students, how many are doing research like this, and is it typical?

This just came up in the Filibuster and I thought it was a great comment. Over the years I have become friends with a few posters here by meeting them in person. Then facebook came and I even have friends of soxtalk posters now as friends.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 04:28 PM) Ironic that you are posting this anonymously on a message board, right? This doesn't feel anonymous anymore. Dammit Facebook and friending too many people here.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 03:38 PM) I'm talking about this case. She said she did it. The family knows she did it. There is no conspiracy. Yes I want her stricken from the earth very soon, not having to wait years for a trial. If that makes me bad instead of the system, then I'm bad. I contend the system and our world can be very bad. I'm not wrong on this issue IMO. I'm not blaming you or criticizing you. I think the world would be a better place if there was more outrage against people like this woman when everybody knows she did it than people defending the legal system when somebody like me speaks out against this monster of a woman. That's just me. In this case, like all cases in the US, she is innocent until proven guilty. She is entitled to a strong defense in front of an unbiased judge or jury. I support our system, you reject it. We have appeals in this country because we have so many rights. I am fundamentally opposed to the taking away of rights. You have no problem with that. I can express outrage, horror, and empathy for this crime without demanding an immediate execution. There are countries around the world where that does happen, and none of them are where I would like to live.

Being in the humanities this is all out of my area of expertise so pardon the questions. So how many students do you think are affected by what amounts today as a two week shutdown, and how many students if this goes until the end of the year? How did the research begin without money? How does a month or two, or more delay in receiving the next check have such a disastrous affect for most projects?

Exactly. I had hoped that academia could make adjustments. They can not. How many grad students are awarded federal money for their projects versus Professors? The complaint was that only long in the tooth professors drink from that well.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 13, 2013 -> 01:47 PM) The problem is not me, it's getting these monsters tried in a quicker fashion. Unless the big, bad media is out to get her I think this woman is the problem. The article said: "Deno said in court that Giedrojc admitted in a video statement to beating the baby with a sledge hammer and slitting her throat." Cmon. If we can't get this woman convicted in a timely fashion, what good is society?? I think one of the problems today is people thinking somebody like me is the problem when I want quicker justice in these cases!! That's all. The problem is that: You do not believe in innocent until proven guilty. You do not believe in an unbiased jury. Therefor you do not believe in the American system of justice. How can you simultaneously claim the system is flawed and demand killing people sooner without appeals? You do understand we have sentenced to death people who later are proven to be innocent? There is very strong evidence that at least one, and possibly more have been executed who were innocent? It is bad enough when innocent people have spent months, years, or even decades locked up for crimes that they did not commit. Once we have killed someone, it is impossible to go back and bring them back to life.

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 06:14 PM) huh? They can't adjust to the facts that some government supported research was halted and work around it. According to Balta, the careers and lives of academics have been shattered. There will be a mass exodus of researchers leaving this country for green pastures where funding is more consistent and guaranteed. I believed that people could make adjustments and understand why certain research was suspended.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 11:43 PM) No I am not the problem. She was found with the murder weapons. She said she did it. The relatives of this monster woman know she did it. Thus she is GUILTY at least in the court of Greg and I would make sure she didn't walk for this act. I seriously don't know if I've ever heard of a worse crime than this one and I feel so badly for the family of the baby. You are not the problem? Then you go on to admit you don't even need to hear the defense. Do you understand our entire justice system is based on innocent until proven guilty and being judged by an unbiased jury? How can you say you would not be a problem when you readily admit that she is guilty before the trial and that you have already formed a biased opinion?

You both realize how monumentally silly it is to argue about votes that were based on faulty information.

Too bad academics aren't able to adapt to the present conditions. I guess I thought more highly of them.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 02:15 PM) I wish I was on the jury because she wouldn't be found insane. She'd be found convicted and she'd be giving up her life. Or there'd be a retrial cause I wouldn't budge. And that is one of the problems with the system. People on juries that don't even bother with the evidence at trial. Do you realize that people like you on juries destroy the very foundation of our justice system and one reason it is, to use your words, MAJORLY FLAWED!!! The basic, most fundamental underpinning, is that all defendants receive a fair trial from an unbiased jury. Innocent until proven guilty. Only then would allowing the government to kill someone come close to being morally fair.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 04:48 PM) Tom Hanks could play him in the movie

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 04:56 PM) HAHAHAHAHA You know what's hilarious? Ruining people's careers while still wasting a couple billion taxpayer dollars. After all, I might have to go back more than 3 posts to find you complaining about the government wasting money. But hey, it's wasted by this shutdown, who cares. How are careers ruined? The rest of academia can't adjust to delays, even whole years?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Oct 11, 2013 -> 07:58 PM) Really? Get one of those really great government jobs without being the daughter's step-sister's cousin of a connect politician. Oh, you mean because it's easier to get work in the private sector when you don't know anyone? About what I thought. Welcome to the real world, Tex. You don't get those awesome government jobs without being born into the royal family that is US politics...or being lucky enough to actually become a freiend of a family member. What percentage of the jobs are hired that way? Is it just federal, or state, and local also? There are millions and millions of people who work for government agencies in this country, from the lady who accepts your water bill at your city office, to school teachers, garbage workers, cops, soldiers, postal carriers, inspectors, Doctors, lawyers, accountants, researchers, translators, and there are enough relatives to cover all those positions. Of course nepotism and favoritism doesn't exist in the private sector? You are joking correct?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 12, 2013 -> 12:32 AM) IT IS MAJORLY FLAWED in these cases. Fortunately if the MAJORLY FLAWED system fails, we can just exhume the body, revive them, and the mistakes are corrected.