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Hmmm I gotta agree with @Trotsky
Y’know a Jewish fast is 24 hours... just saying. And no we don’t do that for a month straight lmao!
I didn't know you were Jewish
Hmmm I gotta agree with @Trotsky
Y’know a Jewish fast is 24 hours... just saying. And no we don’t do that for a month straight lmao!
My mom’s side is Jewish. I’m not religious, but I was raised in both Jewish and Catholic households. The guilt is just... divine.I didn't know you were Jewish
Could falafel go with beer?
Schilling seems like a bit of an asshole (or a moron) but isn't his baseball record clean?Maybe the MLB Hall voters have adopted a "no pieces of shit" policy and that's why Schilling, Pete Rose, and Barry Bonds aren't in.
I doubt itcan you take an IV?
One 24 hour fast sounds rough but I think that would be easier than the whole month of Ramadan. Like I said the first day of Ramadan is not that hard and while adding 9 hours to it would make it tougher you could just sleep those hours off and it being one time makes it very doable. But I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.Hmmm I gotta agree with @Trotsky
Y’know a Jewish fast is 24 hours... just saying. And no we don’t do that for a month straight lmao!
I doubt it
One 24 hour fast sounds rough but I think that would be easier than the whole month of Ramadan. Like I said the first day of Ramadan is not that hard and while adding 9 hours to it would make it tougher you could just sleep those hours off and it being one time makes it very doable.
Sun up to sun down.Do you do sun-up-to-sun-down where you are, or do you use the Mecca clock?
Sun up to sun down.
My mom’s side is Jewish. I’m not religious, but I was raised in both Jewish and Catholic households. The guilt is just... divine.
@Jack V Savage how is Curt Schilling not in the HOF?
I was listening to a brutal old Opie and Anthony segment where they spent 45 minutes making fun of his liquidation after his video game company went under, and I got to reading about him. Surprised he's not in already.
His old-school stats (wins and ERA) don't look HOFy enough for a lot of the geezer voters, plus being a massive asshole doesn't help. Based on advanced stats, he's almost exactly average for a HOFer (and obviously much better than many guys who are in). I think he's a lock to eventually make it.
Is there an HOF ''drift'' happening in baseball? Like, a slow erosion of norms to get in? Or is the statistical record of baseball robust enough to keep the normies out?
Recently there have been some 0 individual award winning, 0 first team all star team appearing players inducted into the Hockey hall of fame.
Maybe the MLB Hall voters have adopted a "no pieces of shit" policy and that's why Schilling, Pete Rose, and Barry Bonds aren't in.
It feels like it's gotten kind of politicized, and there have been some really bad selections as a result of that (Rice, Morris, Smith, Baines). Guys were selected as a "fuck you" to the heavy analytics crowd. Also, I think Tim Raines took much longer to get in because of backlash against that same crowd. On the flip side, there was a modern-stat-driven campaign for Bert Blyleven that was successful. It's actually an interesting dynamic because it's very similar to what you see in politics, but it has nothing to do with governing ideology or politics (for example, Schilling is a far-right loon but it's the analytics guys who are championing his case against the baseball equivalent of the right).
Rose broke the most important rule in baseball--the only one posted on clubhouse walls and that players are briefed on when they make it to the majors and twice during every season. If you bet on a game in which you have a duty to participate, you get a lifetime ban. Nothing to do with him being an asshole, and he has no argument for being in the Hall after that.
Bonds didn't break any rules (that existed at the time) and is one of the greatest players ever. Disgrace that he's not in.
Schilling had only 216 career wins and a 3.46 career ERA. Even though we know that the relatively high ERA was because he played in an extremely high-offense era, and he was 27% better than average for his career, which is HOF-caliber (not to mention many other stats that show him to have a strong case), it's a hard sell to some old voters who don't even understand the concept of park adjustments and don't like the implication (or outright accusations) that they're morons for not ditching the stats that they use to understand the game. Again, a lot of the voters are like the idiots here who say, "this is how you get Trump" or something whenever they hear someone making good arguments that they don't understand.
We need to get Dick Allen in
I'm not totally sold. He had a HOF peak, but not much else. No HOFs since 1960 played in as few games as him, and not many were even close (even Jim Rice played 300-plus more games than he did). Going by Jay Jaffe's JAWS (which balances out peak and longevity), he comes up short. But it wouldn't be an outrage, like Rice (even with those extra 300 games, Allen has a higher career WAR and obviously was much better at his best). I could go either way.
The next big campaign should be for Lou Whitaker.
I'm a big OPS+ guy and he has great company
And he did play 15 seasons leading the league in OPS 4 times and OPS+ 3 times