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@Bustzerker @JomboyMedia 90% of all pitchers would rather see Hedges behind the plate than anyone on their team. He piles up defensive runs saved at an absurd pace and gets the best out of a pitching staff. He is absolutely beloved by teammates, coaches, fans. You know nothing.

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@rmille1303 @923TheFan @terrypluto @RuiterWrongFAN @LanceReisland You can look at it that way, although you can also get lost that way. Yes, differences are small, which is partly why CLE leans on high leverage skills that can change a game, a great defensive play or taking an extra base.

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@Crzy4cleveland @rmille1303 @923TheFan @terrypluto @RuiterWrongFAN @LanceReisland It's not predictive because balls in play are chaotic. A guy hits 290 for a month, you don't really know whether that's a 230 hitter or a 350 hitter. Too much randomness in the outcomes even over 650 AB.

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@Crzy4cleveland @rmille1303 @923TheFan @terrypluto @RuiterWrongFAN @LanceReisland The reason it's not important is because it's not especially predictive, and it represents only a small part of offensive production. Two guys with the same batting average can have a 70 point difference in OBP and 250 slugging.

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@rmille1303 @923TheFan @terrypluto @RuiterWrongFAN @LanceReisland One of the famous quotes from Bull Durham, that the difference between a minor leaguer and a Hall of Famer is one extra hit in every 12 at bats, .250 vs .333.

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@_JoelRayner @MazzyMazzy49 @mdubowitz Your response is amateur psychoanalysis. I won't even bother arguing against it, because this isn't about my state of mind. It's about the facts on the ground, and even if I am coping, those are still the facts.

Not dealing with the facts is typical antizionist coping.

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@GuardsBurner_ I think it's strange that nobody remembers, this guy just came off the IL with a hamstring injury. He was slated to go on a rehab assignment for another two weeks, but that was scrapped to rush him back to the majors whene three players went down.

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@alys216 @CovertheCorner You haven't noticed that they're constantly trying to get more raw right-hand power and elite defense into the roster? It's no mystery what Arias can do. If he could figure it out at the plate — and he won't, but IF he could — he'd be a star. As is, he's just the better warm body

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@CovertheCorner I hesitate to defend this, but it is relevant that he's only days off the IL for a hamstring injury — and a planned two-week rehab assignment was scrapped because the team suddenly had three holes to fill. According to plan, he should still be a week away from returning.

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@DT2ComicsChat Nah. It was always stupid. Undermined the tone of the whole movie. After seeing the Ledger-Nolan take on the character, I don't know how anyone can still defend this.

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@AnotherEddy1 @InshallahVato @HonestReporting @nytimes Honestly? It's very normal to appoint someone to a management position with lots of experience in the specific area that is the number-one problem she'll have to address.

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@Kasloco @RLBraithwaite @davidfrum It's just such a very, very stupid epithet. How did any of us colonize? Almost all of us live where we were born. Outside of your cult, those words just sound unhinged and incoherent.

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@RLBraithwaite @davidfrum We are, deeply. "Yisroel" is the name of the Jewish people. "Sh'ma Yisroel", Hear O Israel. "Judaism" comes from Judea, "Jews" from Judeans. Every seder ends with a simple song: "Next year in Jerusalem!" It is pointless to try to separate Israelites and Judeans from Israel.

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@RLBraithwaite @davidfrum Zios is a racist slur, started by the KKK. Here's your problem. Returning to our homeland Israel and specifically Jerusalem is an aspiration of the Jewish people, even today. So you're attempting to say that Judaism and the Jewish people aren't connected. (1/2)

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@davidfrum Is the cult of Hamas finally getting their "eating the dogs, eating the cats" moment? I hope? Can any of them step back and admit that this is ludicrous? Apparently not NYT editors or fact checkers.

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@AnotherEddy1 @InshallahVato @HonestReporting @nytimes Who do you think bought TikTok? There's a fund from U.A.E. with a 15% stake now. Larry Ellison was born Jewish, though he renounced Judaism completely 70 years ago (yes, 70). There's an Israeli firm with under 10%, a French firm with another 15%, China still owns 19.9%.

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@_JoelRayner @MazzyMazzy49 @mdubowitz Clearly, 99% survival is restraint. I was referring specifically to the early stages of the war, when that was the current statistic. I suggest you attempt to do some neutral, unbiased research into different types of military strikes and settings, what survival rates usually are

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@HelleVitesse @MKirakis @davidpattersonx Oh but it is. Go back and look at quotes at the time. Good people were PLEADING with people to get the vaccine, even if only to protect people with immune system diseases who could easily be killed. Democrats want EVERYONE to have the best health care, including you.

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@MazzyMazzy49 @_JoelRayner @mdubowitz I'm liberal, progressive and woke, and I have several nonbinary friends, really lovely people. The Hamas cult is scarily tough to crack, just like MAGA, but at least progressives do believe in evidence and reason, in theory.

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@JewessTi @_JoelRayner @p9rdsdd7wt @mdubowitz Yes. Guy tells me that IDF dropped 30,000 bombs, they just dropped them haphazardly to kill everyone! At that time, Hamas reported total deaths at 30,000. So I told him, one of those three things HAS to be false. It can't be "haphazard" if you've only killed one person per bomb.