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Damn poachers..... Congrats Will!

Rental car guy ended up upgrading my Nissan Versa to a Madza 3 (He let me walk the lot and pick the car I wanted), and dropped the price from $122 to $87 for the week, and also gave me a 6 hour extension on the return time.

Interview with B&B. http://chicago.cbslocal.com/audio/boers-and-bernstein-show/

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 10:34 PM) To be honest, after re-watching all 6 a couple weeks ago, Episode III may be my favorite. *prepares for tomatoes to the face* I had no major issues with 3. Hell, I even liked 2 just as much. It was really episode 1 that I found horrible.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 02:52 PM) Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 51s52 seconds ago Jason Benetti does use advance metrics. Feels its his job to educate viewers on what they mean. Will weave them into #WhiteSox broadcasts. Oh my god, YESSSSSSSS

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 12:30 PM) Hate the Cubs all you want but Kasper is solid. Now time to get a new radio pbp voice. I can't stand Kaspers high pitched whiney voice. I like his inclusion of analyitcs, but his screeching drives me nuts.

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 10:13 AM) Have not read this entire thread or the article itself, but is there any hidden meaning behind this statement? Sound like it could be a veiled indictment of Hawk's style. That's EXACTLY what I thought too! Lol. Maybe just trying to show us he will be different from Hawk in that aspect.

QUOTE (Alexeihyeess @ Jan 13, 2016 -> 01:04 AM) Yes? They seem to have grabbed a guy who is everything Harrelson isnt. Unless you liked the Yaz stories? I didn't. I think you'd be the only one. This is the video posted in his Twitter bio, by the way: https://youtu.be/9ZlBUglE6Hc I think you probably could have just stopped at him being 32 as reason enough for a dramatic cut-back on Yaz stories.

Here we go. EDIT: Based on his picture, I thought he would have a high-pitched nerdy voice. But he actually sounds pretty classic. He sounds like someone from mlb.com actually.

And he is....

Well, my flight to AZ is in less than 5 hours. Got my flight for $105 roundtrip, got my rental car for 7 days at $122. I think I did pretty well for my first time doing my own travel arrangements. Now just need to get over the nerves of not f***ing up at the airport and making it through the flight. I'm not much a fan of flying. :/ Wish me luck!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 12, 2016 -> 02:01 PM) Fer realz. Come into a thread and complain and then call everyone else babies? Get over yourself.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jan 11, 2016 -> 09:40 PM) Spun out across 3 lanes of traffic on the eway only to stop perfectly parallel in the service lane. Fun stuff. While not even close to as scary, I slid to a stop coming down a hill to a red light. My car doesn't have Anti-lock breaks (2004, seriously?), so I just pumped them a bunch and manuevered to the side to avoid rear-ending the guy in front of me. All while maintaining my Steak-N-Shake Nutella shake in one hand. *swish*

Apparently Eaton really wants to be there, but they won't let him? Seems odd. Not speculating on anything suspicious happening, just figured most players do this because they have to, whereas Eaton seems he really wants to.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 8, 2016 -> 02:49 PM) Season premiere of Shameless is on demand. Fine premiere. I kinda hate Deb and Carl. Hope that's the point. Lotsa bewbs Lips teacher and that co-ed. Ohhhhh laawwwwd.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jan 10, 2016 -> 08:17 AM) This kid has been pretty damn good so far. I think a good comp to him is Nick Leddy with a little less speed and a little better defensively. Does he carry the puck in to the zone with speed like Leddy did? Always loved that aspect to his game.

QUOTE (Frank_Thomas35 @ Jan 10, 2016 -> 01:15 AM) The title is misleading, within my first post I said stat or stats. What is fWAR? And out of all stats why it is the best singular stat? Wins Above Replacement is WAR, the "f" refers to Fangraphs. Fangraphs and Baseball-Reference calculate that same statistic two different ways. http://www.fangraphs.com/library/misc/war/ "Wins Above Replacement (WAR) is an attempt by the sabermetric baseball community to summarize a player’s total contributions to their team in one statistic. You should always use more than one metric at a time when evaluating players, but WAR is all-inclusive and provides a useful reference point for comparing players. WAR offers an estimate to answer the question, “If this player got injured and their team had to replace them with a freely available minor leaguer or a AAAA player from their bench, how much value would the team be losing?” This value is expressed in a wins format, so we could say that Player X is worth +6.3 wins to their team while Player Y is only worth +3.5 wins, which means it is highly likely that Player X has been more valuable than Player Y." The calculation is... "WAR = (Batting Runs + Base Running Runs +Fielding Runs + Positional Adjustment + League Adjustment +Replacement Runs) / (Runs Per Win)" Basically how much value they add with their bat, running the bases, and with their glove, also considering adjustments for position (A SS or CF with the same offensive statistics as a 1B will always yield a higher WAR, due to the boost in difficulty of position. They are more valuable because they can play premium positions, regardless of other abilities) and the league (aka, era) they play in. That last bit allows describes how a player's WAR is relative to the rest of the league. A Mike Trout season in 2015 would not yield the same WAR as that same season placed in the year 1930, is the idea.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jan 10, 2016 -> 01:30 AM) I think the BEST stat in baseball is, by far, wRC+. I give the wRC+ the most weight (no pun intended) when I am comparing the offensive merits of a player. The pitching equivalent being B/R's ERA+, for me.

I really need to be off work during a Hawks game. I am SOO uninformed on Gustafsson.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Jan 10, 2016 -> 12:52 AM) I personally like WAR as a way of evaluating a player. The only flaws with it is that it's not a concrete number like the traditional stats (for example, Baseball Reference had Chris Sale at a 3.3 WAR last year while Fangraphs had him at 6.2), and secondly, there is no real way to define a "replacement level player", even though the entire stat itself is based off of it. Well not only are we not discussing the merits of a "perfect metric", I also referenced fWAR specifically. I choose not to acknowledge bWAR in almost any instance.

1 singular stat? fWAR. But you should always consider far more than 1 metric. fWAR just happens to be the best start point and I consider all other numbers after that one.

Obviously Finn is Mace Windu's grandson.

Buc-ket! Buc-ket! Buc-ket!

Watch Dave Stewart turn in to an absolute maniac and sign Cespedes so he could trade Pollock to the Indians for a package around Carrasco. EDIT: I guess I should say CONTINUE to be a maniac.

Cardinals threw a healthy offer at Heyward. They wouldn't say that if they were set on their OF, or if they didn't have any money to spend. Can only hope Leake took them out of any other major plays.