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QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Aug 19, 2014 -> 04:39 PM) This shouldn't be new. I've been saying this since the original bullpen thread. Don't get me started on FIP and what a great predictor it is. FIP indicated decent numbers for Lindstrom even last year, when he posted a pretty garbage WHIP for a reliever. How are you projecting good / solid ERA results when you have a WHIP over 1.4? That really doesn't make much sense to me. His career WHIP is over 1.4 too. FIP and WHIP are almost completely independent stats. FIP weights home runs, walks, and strike outs. WHIP only takes walks and hits into account. One says a hit is all the pitcher's fault while another says only hits that are home runs are the pitcher's fault (and they really screw up his FIP). FIP cannot predict WHIP because it's not what it's trying to predict. It's supposed to project ERA, which it does a decent job of doing.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Aug 17, 2014 -> 08:59 PM) That was the problem last year, too. RVP carried them the year before. He missed half the season under Moyes. When your backline is Phil Jones, Chris Smalling and Tyler Blackett (who?) it's no wonder you're going to struggle though. They have nothing but offensive players and their defensive players suck. That would be fine if their offensive players were good, but outside of Rooney and Mata, they're either bad or meh.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 18, 2014 -> 08:21 AM) Kyle Naughton , who is terrible, started at one of the FB positions for Spurs on Saturday and predictably was terrible, including getting a straight red and giving away a PK. I think Yedlin would seriously challenge for playing time if he moves in January, especially if they are still involved in the league cups and Europe. The terms of the deal aren't even clear when he'll move exactly. I'm not sure why he wouldn't move in January though. He'd be doing nothing for 3-4 months if the stays in the US.

Not enough to over-turn. I really wish they would tell the fans why they made the decision...like how they do it in football.

Absolutely love what Avi's been doing.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Aug 16, 2014 -> 10:04 AM) Moyes sucks....oh wait They need RVP back. Maybe they can still make a move for Vidal or another good midfielder.

Yedlin's moving to Totenham after this MLS season. $4 million transfer fee. He'll have a lot of competition to crack the starting lineup though. Kyle Walker is a pretty good RB.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 16, 2014 -> 06:37 PM) Weems cut. Thankfully Now the Holmes signing makes even mores sense. He can still return punts right?

I definitely still would. I've been a Sox fan for more than half my life, there's no way I'd just pick up cheering for some other team, especially not the Cubs. That just doesn't do it for me.

Wow, this sure got overblown...

QUOTE (jdupps @ Aug 13, 2014 -> 04:58 PM) Replays and this blocking the plate rule are ruining the game I grew up with. There's nothing wrong with trying to get the call right. Instant replay, if done right, is great for the game. Unfortunately, the way some of these new rules are written have completely screwed it up.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 13, 2014 -> 04:55 PM) Ironic thing is there would have been a national outcry last night if Posey was ruled as blocking the plate. Aspects of instant replay have really hurt the game watching experience this year. For real. Early in the year, it was that stupid rule where you couldn't drop the ball on a transfer on a force out. Now this stupid rule at the plate. Whoever came up with these rules clearly didn't think them through enough.

They need to re-write the rule right away. I don't think it's actually prevented any collisions. Instead, it's just given teams runs when they shouldn't have gotten them.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 10, 2014 -> 01:35 PM) http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag...-163351353.html Yankees ban Kate Upton from wearing Tigers' gear at Yankees Stadium. That's just idiotic. Part of the fun of baseball is having rivalries. Taking things a BIT too seriously, there. They should worry more about how they're going to acquire Tulowitzki or Hanley Ramirez. If they can ban her from wearing certain things, can they ban her from wearing clothes?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 12, 2014 -> 01:37 PM) That Doug Fister trade still makes absolutely no sense and might be one of the biggest reasons they are where they are now. They must have hated Fister to trade him for what they got.

Good thing the Tigers traded for Price, huh? They'd be so screwed right now if they hadn't.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 11, 2014 -> 11:03 AM) And they do this in public? Yikes. I have seen them do it in public. Although I've only seen them do this for non-personal texts.

I was surprised to see two girls playing in the LLWS. One of them pitched a shutout today.

QUOTE (Ozzie Ball @ Aug 9, 2014 -> 01:18 PM) So Barcelona have spent around £30m on Jeremy Mathieu and Thomas Vermaelen. 2 aging, kind of average CB's. Seems an interesting/odd move. It's because they're planning on playing a 3 man back-line this year (2 CBs, 1 FB). Mascherano is going to move up as a CDM, so they need extra CBs along with Pique and Bartra. At least Vermaelen's not 30. I think he might get the starting nod over Mathieu.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Aug 8, 2014 -> 11:09 PM) I'm devastated. I think if it was a powerhouse club they would be receiving a fine and a slap on the wrist. It's a huge f*** up on Legia's part but I think UEFA did them wrong. He was on the pitch for 3 min of extra time in a match where everything was already settled. 18 years I'm waiting for Legia to get back to Champions League, this is the closest they've gotten and now this. Story. That's terrible. Turns out he didn't serve his full suspension since he wasn't registered for two of the games he didn't play.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 8, 2014 -> 01:37 PM) I wrote they're wrong 70-80% of the time, that should have read they're RIGHT 70-80% of the time, but that means 20-30% of your message will often have incorrect words in it. I can ALWAYS tell when someone sends me a text via voice. I know what they were trying to say, but you can tell a computer wrote it. That happens with typing on your phone as well. Auto-correct will get in your way at least 10% of the time. It happens to everyone.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 8, 2014 -> 12:43 PM) This has NEVER been my experience with voice commands, be they via iOS or Google Now. They're both decent, but they're still both wrong 70-80% of the time, and a single word written incorrectly in a message can change the context or meaning of the entire message. I have friends who do nothing but send massive walls of text in text messages with using Google's voice recognition. It works fine most of of the time. The only complaint I have is that Google Now is kind of broken (it won't really listen for your commands for some reason) when you have your phone hooked up to a bluetooth sound system.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 8, 2014 -> 12:32 PM) That's a bit of an overstatement. Google's voice recognition is good, but only when you're in decent conditions. The issue with voice commands is that they're largely invasive. I don't need to be listening to you rambling into your wrist on an elevator, or at a restaurant, etc. So, yea, while you can respond, you can only do so in a limited and often annoying fashion. You know what else you could do? Pull out your phone and respond since you have to have it with you anyway, and if your watch is working because you're in a place where you can use voice, you're phone won't be an inconvenience either...which also can be used hands free with voice. These are redundant applications. Everyone I know with a Pebble uses it to tell time now...when they first got it they were using it for basically everything it could do. Now they realize their phone is just easier. That's because the Pebble kind of sucks. Like I said before, Android Wear is the first real OS developed specifically for a smart-watch.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 8, 2014 -> 09:27 AM) Most of these features are what I call show & tell features, and are limited/gimped at best. You'd need near perfect conditions for voice, and/or they require you to pull out your phone (which they already require you to carry) and use it anyway because the screen sizes are simply too small to do much of anything with. And from the looks of some of these, they're already reaching ridiculous "clock" like sizes where you're going to look like a complete idiot if you wear one. It's just not enough of an inconvenience to pull out your phone in the first place. What they COULD do, however, is tap into the fitness world... First and foremost, it needs to tell the time/date. Then, if it kept a log of heart rate, distances walked, perhaps blood pressure, body temperature, etc., it could be worth something at the right price. But getting limited messages or a tiny map on your wrist isn't going to cut it. I play music in my car a lot and my phone picks up the "Google Now" hotword just fine as long as it's not ear-screeching loud.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 8, 2014 -> 08:28 AM) What good is reading notifications if you can't reply? I don't guarantee they will be a thing, it's an outlier use case to me for only a subset of the population. You can. Google's voice recognition is actually very good, as long as you're not at a concert or something.