AJ Kastner

IU fan and alumni. Adopted Marquette fan. Facilitator of IU football propaganda.

[Isaiah Walker @walkeri141]

bro you are arguing with the weather channel reporting the weather

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

If they want to pay for it themselves

[Dustin Gouker @DustinGouker]

In case you are wondering how this works

[miles (mpp) @goldmanbear]

Harry Potter canonically played 9 quidditch games in six whole years of school #TheBoyWhoLoadManaged #PandemicPotter

[AJ Kastner @aj_kastner]

Lack of participants in my bracket pools this year…..recession indicator?

[Simon Jacob🌹 @Simon_Jacob1]

The ghost of Dick Cheney communicating with an American pilot about to bomb Ali Khamenei‘s home

[Indiana Football @IndianaFootball]

Perfection.

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

If youre a Hoosiers Bears fan you probably are about 50% genuinely concerned that youre dead and none of this is real

[OurSF49ers @OurSf49ers]

#49ers Mac Jones lost a bet to Kurtis Rourke after Indiana beat Alabama 💀

Via: @TracyFGSN

[David Eickholt @DavidEickholt]

Reminder: The “no-name” bowl that Vanderbilt is in— is quite literally the best bowl game in program history.

[Indiana Football @IndianaFootball]

See you in Pasadena. 🌴

[PPRFantasyTips @PPRFantasyTips]

So every Sunday you wake up, go to the couch and watch NFL redzone for 7 straight hours?”

“Yes Dave.”

“You don’t do anything but scroll X, stare at the TV screen & check your fantasy matchups?”

“That’s right.”

“Do you win your leagues?”

“No Dave.”

[Indiana Football @IndianaFootball]

Never doubted ourselves.

[Indiana Football @IndianaFootball]

This year’s Indiana? Still Indiana.

[AJ Kastner @aj_kastner]

Can’t wait for my timeline to be cleansed of Illinois football fans after tonight

[Jeremy Werner @JWerner247]

The Illinois-Indiana fan base back and forth on here this week has been fun to watch.

They’ve both finally been given reason to care enough about football to shit-talk each other about it. Fantastic.

[Tottenham Hotspur @SpursOfficial]

He's ours 🤩

We're delighted to announce the signing of Xavi Simons from RB Leipzig on a long-term contract ✍He's ours 🤩

We're delighted to announce the signing of Xavi Simons from RB Leipzig on a long-term contract ✍️

[Chase Snyder @ChasingSnyder]

This is like seeing an Elvis impersonator in Vegas

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

Great question, John. For most of baseball history, the walk was sneered at -- a lesser form of getting on base compared to the exceptional skill it takes to swing. The analytical revolution in the game changed that. If the objective of the game is to outscore a team, then the likeliest way to score runs is for people to get on base. Post-Moneyball, on-base percentage replaced batting average as more reliable metric for helping produce runs.

Batting average was almost a victim of its own popularity, though. Because it does matter. It's just not the first determinant of a baseball player's quality. Sometimes I do fear the pendulum has swung too far in the anti-batting-average direction.

Let's take three players as examples, with their batting averages, on-base percentages and slugging percentages:

Manny Machado: .302/.361/.507
Juan Soto: .248/.383/.486
Eugenio Suárez: .248/.319/.572

Three totally different hitters. Machado is balanced and batting average-heavy. Soto’s average is deflated but he’s an on-base savant thanks to the highest walk rate in the major leagues. Suárez is a masher whose high slug is his calling card.

So who’s the best? Well, if you’re judging by a metric called weighted on-base average, which seeks to be a catch-all offensive number that is park-neutral … they are pretty much identical.

It goes to show: Offensively, there are plenty of ways to be really good. A great batting average is never a bad thing. But a poor one, as Soto and Suárez illustrate, does not doom you to mediocrity.

[big content guy @bigcontentguy]

*haliburton on ground, screaming in just absolute agony*

thunder PA guy-