Kevin Beane

Writer and roustabout. Er, layabout. He/him

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@jon_wertheim @Wimbledon How much you wanna bet that they won't give Chwalinska a wild card even if she WINS Roland Garros because Wimbledon making her go through quallies would feel like a flex to them?

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@NCAABuzzerBters Hard to keep poised and make your shots with the famously epic weight of Central African Republic vs. Equatorial Guinea on your shoulders

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@ChaseWisely @jib_loger_alt Yes. "Intentionally injecting" vs "hoping you don't catch it, but regardless, no one is going to INTENTIONALLY INJECT YOU WITH IT" being the crucial, deciding differentiator is just beautiful, man.

Chef's kiss. I love it so much.

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@SimTheWorld @plateaconriver @BenRothenberg So the reason it's OK to put the flag ahead is not because said flag is already known regardless of who wins, but because of "entity" status?

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@gpasmith904 @GageEHC Did you see Moneyball? Do you think they made the wrong guy the good guy?

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@plateaconriver @BenRothenberg I regret to inform you, it's already settled practice that moving the flag up to the next round in such cases is standard practice.

Which, come to think of it, means there's no good reason to be against the same practice in the Great Matteo War.

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@ChristnNitemare Who is this lady? Does anyone know?

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@Brewrers I'm missing something here. There was no ABS last year or in 2008. So what does this comparison have to do with robot umps?

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@emilykmay After my stepdad died, I found out that early in his relationship with my Mom that he complained that she was prioritizing me and my sister's needs over his.

She told him "The kids need me. You (as an adult), don't."

(He went on to be an OK stepdad, don't get me wrong).

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@3YearLetterman I was gonna say LFO is more legit and doesn't fit the narrative the way these other guys do, but then I realized I was thinking UTFO.

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@memechaotic I remember this episode like it was yesterday. Thought he gonna kill the sharks! First time I saw how many security guys Shark Tank has just off-screen!

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@maiamindel Very well-edited, btw.

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@Barry_Carter LOLOLOLOLolol....waaaait a minute....you're British! What do YOU know about Thanksgiving? How would you like it if *I* made a joke about tea? Or rigid class divides? Or Ant & Dec?

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@OgreTurtle No nightmare, I'm afraid. She was executed by the WTA Capital Punishment Squad at 0500 this morning (firing squad). Hsieh-Su Wei will still be permitted to compete in doubles with Xinyu's executioner "Meat Head," who received special permission to compete in the women's tourney.

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@josemorgado "invaded." 🙄

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@tombos21 What if, instead of a billion, it was a million plus $5? That's still techically +EV, so you should take it, right?

If not, where is the line? I assume you left-brained dolts who can only see things in terms of EV and are allergic to any other factors have a very bright one.

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@GageEHC @thedrewf @mittmullins This is all such a dumb thing to waste brain space on anyway.

1. The egghead's projections will be the egghead's projections. If they see fit to adjust them, they will. They aren't biased against CLE.

2. EVEN IF THEY WERE, athletes generally feed off perceived disrespect.

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@mittmullins @thedrewf 1) It's precisely because they are one of the best organizations that they consistently outperform these analytical expectations.
2) For them to say, "we will rate everyone analytically, but throw that out for the Guardians and just predict them to win" would be dumb IMO.

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@mittmullins @thedrewf Doesn't mean it's not true. Also, if you're team is consistently underrated, That's Actually Good, for a number of reasons.

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@oneilla828 People are chalking this up to his "accessibility" but on top of that, the culture of newspapers back then was a big part of it too. Travel back to 1985 and earlier, call your favorite newspaper writer who was writing at the time, I bet you get them over 50% of the time.