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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 23, 2013 -> 11:06 PM) Major thumbs down to the Raiders head coach. How do you not give Janikowski a shot at the 67-yard FG in the mile high air ? The game was already out of reach in all honesty and a Hail Mary TD was very unlikely anyway. You have Janikowski on your fantasy team don't you?

QUOTE (scs787 @ Sep 23, 2013 -> 01:26 PM) Yeah, seems as though I caught you at the right time since my team didn't do much better. I actually had thoughts of keeping White in over Gordon and playing McGahee over Cook which would have cost me 26 points and lead you to an easy victory...luckily I didn't. Well s***, I should have hyped Roddy White in this thread all week then. I would have been undefeated in 3 of my 4 Yahoo leagues if I did somehow win this week in the Soxtalk league.

I got 10 points from Desean Jackson and Colin Kaepernick. The rest of my team scored 161. Hurray for pure dominance.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Sep 23, 2013 -> 01:10 PM) not in the soxtalk heroes league =p Yeah my team tanked badly this week. I was #1 through the first two weeks though.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 23, 2013 -> 10:12 AM) Anyone? I win if that stat correction holds and I lose if it doesn't. I know exactly what play it was but I can't figure out why the hell it was changed and I'm paranoid it'll get changed back. I think that's an error, they can't take a defensive touchdown away...

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 23, 2013 -> 10:20 AM) I can't do anything right this year. Boldin sat on my bench week 1. Started S. Jackson, Wilson, Nelson, Garcon, and Lacy. Vick and Garcon sat last week. Started Cam, S. Jackson, Wilson, Boldin, Nelson, and Lacy. Gordon and Cam sat this week. Started Vick, Wilson, McGahee, Nelson, Garcon, and Boldin. I mean what the f*** Wrong thread.

If Spiller's injury is serious, then Fred Jackson will be one of the best late-round picks I've ever made.

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 22, 2013 -> 09:37 PM) 0-3 3-0.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Sep 23, 2013 -> 12:37 AM) I bet Melton wishes he would of took the Bears offer earlier. Melton wasn't doing much, but the defensive line isn't getting any better without him.

I had Charles, Murray, Cameron, and Jones get me 110 points combined, but my QB situation is looking fairly iffy with Kaepernick struggling so bad.

What happened to the 49ers? Their offensive line sucks now.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Sep 22, 2013 -> 01:16 PM) Daryl Richardson... Facepalm. Why? I sat him for Decker. Dallas has a really good run defense, but I had no idea Fischer was going to sit Richardson.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Sep 21, 2013 -> 02:26 PM) All but two cities in the country are "fractions the size of Chicago." Dallas / Ft. Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Phoenix are pretty large cites in their own rights. And hey, none of them are in a death spiral while Chicago just posted its lowest census figures in like 100 years. But I really dont see the appeal of living in some massive city. What's in it? You're just stacked on top of one another, you can only really go as far as your lame bicycle or public transportation can take you (unless you have a car, which most cities will put in the poor house for having the audacity to own) and everything is more expensive. I guess that's whats cool now though. Urban grit, the concrete jungle. "Yea man, I could totally have gotten mugged on my to Yo Yo Yogurt time from the boutique pet salon." They dont even have that grit anymore, I'm guessing it might've been cool back in the day where if you wanted to do some depraved s*** that skirted legality you had to find a New York or Chicago; but pretending that still exists when most American cities are some combination of hipster dens, yuppie Disneyland and gang warzones is just delusional. Oh, and that's not even getting started on the taxes. So yea, go ahead... if you want the cities you can have them. Most logistics and manufacturing infrasture got kicked out to build ugly condo's years ago and a vast majority of jobs provided are in crucial sectors of the economy like food service, "working" for the city or, if you're lucky, some wealth recycling plant where you camp in a cubicle before you take the bus home. Some existence! By the way, I'm talking about cties that aren't entirely run by liberals. People may have voted for Obama to destroy the country but many of them had better sense in electing local officials. Well, back on the ignore list you go.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 20, 2013 -> 10:41 AM) Yes, they sure seem like a joke company that makes kid toys... https://www.google.com/finance?q=TYO%3A7951...8UrC8OoHcqQHbIQ And yes, that's just their AV arm, that doesn't include their motor corp. Dude, that's 13.62 American Dollars per share. I don't think he was talking about Yamaha as a whole being a joke company, just their musical apps in the DJ scene.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 20, 2013 -> 08:24 AM) Pay the $450 and sell the 5 for a few hundred. He can probably sell the iPhone 5 for $400 on eBay if it's in good condition. GSM phones usually sell for more than CDMA. He'll probably get $50-$100 less for a Sprint or Verizon version.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 19, 2013 -> 08:47 PM) Still ignores the fact other audio apps have been updated and are working fine. To pretend Yahama isn't a big name in that industry is a joke. They're bigger than Audiobus, for sure. From what I understand, hardware manufacturers like Native Instruments have discouraged users to upgrade. It's not just Audiobus. It might not just be software-related, there could be issues with existing hardware.

We were up 13-0 on Monday about 15 minutes into the game. Then it started pouring. Now we have to replay the game. We had 3 inside the ballpark home runs.

Jamaal Charles went HAM.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 19, 2013 -> 04:42 PM) So stereotypical.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Sep 19, 2013 -> 01:33 PM) ugh... my lackluster QB corps have me in a dilemma... Russell Wilson or Tony Romo... pretty much every site says one or the other is primed for a "big week" Jared Cook or Gonzo? how do you people make these choices in fantasy football? There's a reason I never have bench hitters in my baseball leagues. Too much tinkering. I like Wilson this week. fantasypros.com is a good aggregation site for rankings BTW.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 19, 2013 -> 01:40 PM) How do you people avoid butt dialing? I'm sick of looking down at my phone at 11 pm and it's dialing somebody who is asleep. Any solutions for me? Get a pin for your lockscreen.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 19, 2013 -> 12:25 PM) My company's apps arent "general", and I have several customers who have apps that not only rely on hardware, but much more complex hardware than musical instruments and their interfaces. Those folks have all been ready for this upgrade for some time. And if I cant generalize, what is a message board for? Your apps probably don't deal with audio. So it could be that iOS 7 changed certain things around so that certain audio equipment don't work with it.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 19, 2013 -> 09:22 AM) Oh, and use whatever numbers you want to...Matt Harvey was the best pitcher in the major leagues this year by far. It's a damn shame we won't get to see him next year. There's a good chance Kershaw can win both NL MVP and Cy Young because of Harvey's injury. The field for NL MVP this year is really weak. McCutchen is clearly the best player, but his power numbers aren't gawdy and a lot of his value comes from defense and base running. I really don't understand the love for Freddie Freeman though. Cardinals fans who argue that Matt Carpenter is a better candidate than McCutchen are also kind of crazy. I wouldn't be surprised if Kershaw gets MVP though. You can't really argue with a 1.94 ERA.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 19, 2013 -> 09:19 AM) I hadn't done enough research into fWAR or FIP and, while I think it's a better true indication of pitcher's talent, I think xFIP is a better calibration of a pitcher's overall talent and luck becomes less of a factor. You look at the raw fWAR numbers and you see that Scherzer is at 6.1 and Sale is at 4.7. Does anybody on here really believe that Max Scherzer has been 30% better than Chris Sale has this year? I sure as hell don't. So, I looked it up. First, here's the formula for FIP: FIP = ((13*HR)+(3*(BB+HBP))-(2*K))/IP + constant (the constant is generally about 3.2 to normalize to make it look like ERA, as is done with wOBA) Immediately, that tells me it skews away from pitchers who give up home runs, but who do you think is going to give up more home runs, Chris Sale with 330-375-400-375-330 around his home park, or Max Scherzer at 345-370-420-365-335? To further prove this, consider that USCF's multi-year park factor is 108 while Comerica's is 105. Beyond that, USCF's home run factor is 1.15 compared to Comerica's at 0.98 this year; last year it was 1.35 and 1.03 respectively. Digging deeper, I wanted to see which of Chris Sale's home runs would have been home runs elsewhere. Immediately I ran into an outlier that is likely included in his numbers - Ian Kinsler's 197 foot inside the park home run. 99.99% of the time that is not a home run, but due to fluke factors, it was, and it skews his FIP upward already. There were 5 others I thought could be here or there (listed as either 'Just Enough' or short home runs that I thought could have stayed in on other days, courtsey ESPN Hit Tracker) Josh Donaldson - 6/7 Matt Tuiasosopo - 7/11 Ryan Raburn - 8/1 Miguel Cabrera - 8/12 Asdrubal Cabrera - 9/15 For mere example's sake, we'll remove those too. Keeping all other numbers constant while using 17 as the home runs allowed, Sale's FIP would drop from 3.26 to 3.02. To some extent, that normalizes his FIP and would put him at 11th in the majors and 4th in the AL. Instead, he's tied with Jhoulys Chacin (xFIP 3.85) and Hyun-Jin Ryu (xFIP 3.49); Chris Sale's xFIP is 2.96 - because he's a much better pitcher than both Chacin and Ryu and is more in line with guys like Cliff Lee and Yu Darvish. So really, nuts and bolts of the matter, Chris Sale's fWAR is being penalized because he pitches in a home run park while Max Scherzer is getting a bonus for pitching in a park that tends to suppress home runs. Their xFIPs? Chris Sale would rank 3rd in the AL at 2.96 (behind Felix at 2.69 and Darvish at 2.76), while Scherzer would be 5th at 3.08 (behind teammate Anibal Sanchez at 2.97, who actually leads the AL in both ERA (2.51) and FIP (2.48) but has only thrown 172 innings). At the end of the day, context matters in everything, and using these numbers as any sort of measuring stick really defeats the purpose because they are just supposed to give an indication as to how good these guys have been, not be the end all, be all. I still believe fWAR is the best number number to use, and xFIP has it's flaws too, but nothing is without holes. Bottomline, when comparing pitchers to one another, consider everything, take time to think about it, and then come to a conclusion. fWAR does take park factor into account though. For some odd reason, Detroit is somehow considered an offensively friendly park (maybe that's cause they usually have a good offense). Is home run factor taken into account when calculating park factor at all? I think it already does, but I'm not sure. Another reason why Sale's bWAR is so high is because our defense sucks balls. Usually, a 3.08 ERA doesn't get you a bWAR of 7.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Sep 19, 2013 -> 10:15 AM) If it was windows and the companies didnt develop in time for a new launch the same would be true. It's lazy or stupid. Its not difficult to develop mobile applications, I've made several myself and I have a psych degree. We finished our IOS7 app upgrade in less than a few weeks. You can't just generalize that these developers were lazy or stupid. They make apps for music creation. Mobile apps in general are fairly easy to make, but how many general apps deal with audio creation and interface with musical instruments? Whenever hardware comes into play, things get more complicated than your usual mobile app.