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03-26-2014 , 03:09 AM
Andrew Sharp's #hotsportstakes is pretty much perfect
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03-26-2014 , 03:10 AM
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Wiggins and Embiid and Parker were never quite as amazing as we hoped, but there’s still time on the clock here. You know how they can amaze us for real?

Stay in school.

Learn the game. Grow. Get better.

Come back to campus and decide that NBA millions can wait.

I haven’t been in this business forever, but I’ve been here long enough to know that sometimes it pays to say no to all the yes-men telling you to go for the instant gratification. If you wait a little longer and work a little harder, it pays off in more ways that your calculator can count. That, to me, is what the college game is all about.

That’s what I want for these kids.
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03-26-2014 , 03:16 AM
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Originally Posted by fanerio
Andrew Sharp's #hotsportstakes is pretty much perfect
I fell for this hard earlier today. I didn't know Grantland was doing satire pieces at all and that column on the freshman class needing to return completely fooled me. I was wondering what the hell happened with their analysis or how that writer got on the staff. Then yeah found out it was satire. Heh. Well played. The thing is the exact article could run minus any irony in any number of publications.
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03-26-2014 , 06:15 AM
Keri in baseball is real good, but outside of Grantland it's a real wilderness.

Spencer Hall, Jeb Lund, Lana Berry, Jon Bois, etc. are amusing writers but they aren't really sportswriters. They are comedians who riff on sports.
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03-26-2014 , 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Biesterfield
We discussed it for a while in TZ. It has its basis but poorly worded.
I don't think it was poorly worded at all. Any idea that challenges the conventional wisdom is going to cause a lot of people to just reflexively scoff and dismiss it no matter how it's worded. Anyone who understands (eg) VORP should have no trouble at all understanding that piece.
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03-26-2014 , 10:23 AM
Getting the lifelong get out of jail free card wasn't good for Simmons
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03-26-2014 , 01:55 PM
Spencer does non humor stuff (not so much now that he's basically running sbnation), and when he does it's head and shoulders above others. The pieces he does before every college football season are fantastic, and typically incredibly touching.

Jeff Sullivan is also very, very good.
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03-26-2014 , 07:00 PM
The one interesting thing I've found regarding 538 is the comment section has some really intelligent discussion and debate. Pretty rare to see that on any message board on the internet.
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03-27-2014 , 01:19 PM
Simmons action movie star article is good until the early 90s and then he totally mails it in. He's exactly the slob who loves this Liam Neeson ****, his summary of the 2000s is lol bad.
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03-27-2014 , 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Rei Ayanami
Yeah this is straight lol. Nate just has to put his head down and get his team to produce better stuff. Instead he's getting caught up in a pissing contest with Krugman. Silly.
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03-27-2014 , 02:43 PM
that article is fantastic. lol at not getting the satire
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03-27-2014 , 03:01 PM
What is he satirizing exactly?
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03-27-2014 , 03:04 PM
538's weak DataLab poasts.
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03-27-2014 , 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Rei Ayanami
538's weak DataLab poasts.
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03-27-2014 , 03:57 PM
I made this point in poltics:

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What I liked about 538 wasn't so much the numbers, but the way Nate talked about them. It seems like this whole thing is more about "538" than "Nate Silver" .

There's no shortage of sports analytics stuff online. That's not going to hook me in. Nate can, but I just do not care about the other folks at all.
And now he's kinda writing like yambag and ruining that too.
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03-27-2014 , 03:59 PM
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Scoring in professional basketball is one of the most beautiful things in sports. With only moments to set up his shot, a player tosses a ball into a soaring arc, and it drops through a hoop only slightly larger than the ball. That or he flies to the hoop and deposits the ball directly.
Leaving aside the dubious statistical claims, this is one of the most hilariously bad pieces of writing I've read in a while. He sounds like an alien who heard about this game called "basketball" and is trying to fit into a sports conversation by uncertainly recalling how it's played.
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03-27-2014 , 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by dkgojackets
that article is fantastic. lol at not getting the satire
I don't get it
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03-27-2014 , 04:03 PM
And there are many things in sports that are far more visually impressive. A leaping catch in the NFL, a good golf swing (particularly in slow motion with the new camera technology), great defensive plays in baseball, etc. ZOMG some dude tossed a ball in an arc with only moments to set it up!!! lol?
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03-27-2014 , 04:05 PM
I will hold up a peak Ray Allen jumper as a top 9 aesthetically pleasing thing.
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03-27-2014 , 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Rei Ayanami
Wow the butthurt is strong
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03-27-2014 , 04:08 PM
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I will hold up a peak Ray Allen jumper as a top 9 aesthetically pleasing thing.
Steph Curry jumper > Ray Allen jumper
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03-27-2014 , 04:10 PM
Literally with only moments. That or he flies to the hoop and deposits the ball directly. Lolololol. How could anyone possibly type those words with a straight face jfc
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03-27-2014 , 04:12 PM
direct ball deposit sounds vaguely pornographic.
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