1 hour ago1 hr 10 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:I don't see it as a bad thing and fully embrace it. Hell you probably work for a millionaire or billionaire nerd yourself. We kinda run the world.I see the people from childhood who used to make fun of people for being nerds or dorks occasionally. Most of them are killing themselves working 60 hours a week doing miserable labor jobs because they were too stupid to do anything else. I always laugh thinking back to those days while sitting on my couch making twice what they make while working half as much. Nerds and dorks, indeed.
1 hour ago1 hr 2 minutes ago, Paulie4Pres said:I see the people from childhood who used to make fun of people for being nerds or dorks occasionally. Most of them are killing themselves working 60 hours a week doing miserable labor jobs because they were too stupid to do anything else. I always laugh thinking back to those days while sitting on my couch making twice what they make while working half as much.Nerds and dorks, indeed.Holy s%*# the level of cope among you nerds is hysterical.Labeling people as too stupid and thinking of them as lesser than you because they work labor jobs. Thinking they are lesser than you because of their income.What a bitter dork you are!
1 hour ago1 hr 1 minute ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:Holy s%*# the level of cope among you nerds is hysterical.Labeling people as too stupid and thinking of them as lesser than you because they work labor jobs. Thinking they are lesser than you because of their income.What a bitter dork you are!I'm not bitter at all, but most of them certainly are. It's just funny. Maybe if they decided to be a little more nerd and a little less douchebag growing up, they would have a job that doesn't suck. But learning and good grades were for the nerds and dorks, so I get it. 🤣P.S. Nerds and dorks are the only reason you're able to have this forum to have this silly discussion to begin with. Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Paulie4Pres
1 hour ago1 hr 7 minutes ago, Paulie4Pres said:I'm not bitter at all, but most of them certainly are. It's just funny. Maybe if they decided to be a little more nerd and a little less douchebag growing up, they would have a job that doesn't suck. But learning and good grades were for the nerds and dorks, so I get it. 🤣You don't have to be a dork to get good grades and make money. Only dorks think that.
1 hour ago1 hr 1 minute ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:You don't have to be a dork to get good grades and make money. Only dorks think that.I mean, you've yet to actually articulate why he's a dork, so that's on you. I'm just telling you what kind of people were called nerds and dorks, and what kind of people threw those words around, growing up. And, as I said, I don't know adults that actually use those words as an insult, so this entire fucking tangent is super weird. What is a dork? Or a nerd?
1 hour ago1 hr 13 minutes ago, Paulie4Pres said:P.S. Nerds and dorks are the only reason you're able to have this forum to have this silly discussion to begin with.I get along great with nerds and dorks!
1 hour ago1 hr 1 minute ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:I get along great with nerds and dorks!Probably because you're also a super weird dork.
1 hour ago1 hr 5 minutes ago, Paulie4Pres said:I mean, you've yet to actually articulate why he's a dork, so that's on you. I'm just telling you what kind of people were called nerds and dorks, and what kind of people threw those words around, growing up. And, as I said, I don't know adults that actually use those words as an insult, so this entire fucking tangent is super weird.What is a dork? Or a nerd?Lived experience? Jason seems like a fine person. Just saying...he's definitely in the dork/nerd/geek category. You know it when you see it. Which is why his co workers teased him about being a geek and he laughed about it..he knows its true.And like I said, the nerdy 80s tv references and dry jokes in the middle of a game got old...to me! Not my cup of tea. I loved the crazy red ass Hawk.
1 hour ago1 hr 7 minutes ago, Paulie4Pres said:Probably because you're also a super weird dork.Hilarious how easy it was to get you to call someone a dork. Yet according to you only sub 80 IQ jocks who build your roads use that term!See ya, nerd.
1 hour ago1 hr 8 hours ago, Snopek said:Question to consider for offseason spending: If it’s between pumping more money into ops/analytics to “fuel the foundation” or spending more on FA’s, which would you prefer?Ideally it’s both, but, you know.I don't think some analytics department hires cost anywhere near as much as free agents do. All I've seen is those guys are underpaid and overworked compared to other jobs they could have in IT.
56 minutes ago56 min 4 minutes ago, chw42 said:I don't think some analytics department hires cost anywhere near as much as free agents do. All I've seen is those guys are underpaid and overworked compared to other jobs they could have in IT.Seems like a smart way to get better ROI is just outspend everyone on analytics. No idea what an MLB analytics department costs but it's probably less than one big free agent's salary. Outspend on analytics so you don't overspend on bad free agents. Edited 52 minutes ago52 min by Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her
52 minutes ago52 min 3 minutes ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:Seems like a smart way to get better ROI is just outspend everyone on analytics. No idea what an MLB analytics department costs but it's probably less than one big free agent's salary. Outspend on analytics so you under spend on bad free agents.Exec level guys make 250k. Regular engineers around 100-150k according to Google. Seems like you can hire 10 engineers for the cost of Erick Fedde.Top end teams spend $5-10 million a year on their analytics departments. The Sox are probably spending around $2 million a year right now. Edited 48 minutes ago48 min by chw42
46 minutes ago46 min 6 minutes ago, chw42 said:Exec level guys make 250k. Regular engineers around 100-150k according to Google. Seems like you can hire 10 engineers for the cost of Erick Fedde.Top end teams spend $5-10 million a year on their analytics departments. The Sox are probably spending around $2 million a year right now.TB was over $40 million in that R&D Twitter post
45 minutes ago45 min 6 minutes ago, chw42 said:Exec level guys make 250k. Regular engineers around 100-150k according to Google. Seems like you can hire 10 engineers for the cost of Erick Fedde.Top end teams spend $5-10 million a year on their analytics departments. The Sox are probably spending around $2 million a year right now.Exactly. So beef up your analaytics operation to 12 million. Sure, it costs you half of Luis Castillo's salary. But then you're smart enough to not trade for Luis Castillo.
36 minutes ago36 min 9 minutes ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:Exactly. So beef up your analaytics operation to 12 million. Sure, it costs you half of Luis Castillo's salary. But then you're smart enough to not trade for Luis Castillo.SoxTalk for free could/would have told them that...initial reaction was 80-85% against the trade.
30 minutes ago30 min 16 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:TB was over $40 million in that R&D Twitter postThey had, what, 40 guys in their R&D department? They're all being paid an average of $1 million each? I doubt that.
28 minutes ago28 min I do find it funny that there was a conversation about nerds and dorks a few posts ago and now we are actively talking about hiring more nerds and dorks while debating how much they make for our favorite baseball team.
16 minutes ago16 min 12 minutes ago, chw42 said:I do find it funny that there was a conversation about nerds and dorks a few posts ago and now we are actively talking about hiring more nerds and dorks while debating how much they make for our favorite baseball team.I was thinking the same thing.Put nerds and dorks behind a computer in my analytics department.Do not give them a microphone for 162 games.
11 minutes ago11 min 1 minute ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:I was thinking the same thing.Put nerds and dorks behind a computer in my analytics department.Do not give them a microphone for 162 games.Do you hire nerds/geeks/dorks to manage your investments or the typical high school QB/cheerleading captain?80% would go with the former.But Benetti also has CP, so it's not like it is his fault he has had to overcome a disability.In that sense, I would stand with him against Brooks Boyer, Hahn, Getz.
7 minutes ago7 min 4 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:Do you hire nerds/geeks/dorks to manage your investments or the typical high school QB/cheerleading captain?80% would go with the former.But Benetti also has CP, so it's not like it is his fault he has had to overcome a disability.In that sense, I would stand with him against Brooks Boyer, Hahn, Getz.I would not hire Jason Bennetti to manage my investments. I might hire him to my trivia team.
3 minutes ago3 min 5 minutes ago, Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said:I would not hire Jason Bennetti to manage my investments. I might hire him to my trivia team.
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