KC wins, you buy. Mets win, I buy. We drink it together. It's a win-win regardless of outcome.
Not that I'm paying much attention. A nice break from baseball last night to see the Pats go to 7-0. Next up, after a nice long break, the Washington Natives.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
I've been rooting for the Mets. As a person of hair ( I have more and better hair than all members of both teams combined including De Grom ) I have to root for them.
And as I said before the series started, Murphy is going to make it interesting, and he has.
But several people said that KC don't strike out so I checked the stats and .... they are off the goddamn charts for lowest SO for the regular season. KC is doing something really different than everyone else.
yrs,
rubato
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Did I miss another one? D--n (for LJ), I watched game 2 but can't seem to get the hang of this non-cable TV network stuff
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I guess that's proof positive that Robert Kraft has cut a deal with The Great Horned One....
Proof positive that there was no cheating, since the NFL has new "game ball checking" policies. Just like the AFC Championship game.
And oh, yes, check out the Indy papers and FoxSportsNews -- the Doltz are in hot hot water for failing to report the full extent of Andrew Luck's injuries (he has or had broken ribs that have not been reported on the injury list as required. A specific violation of the rules *and* directly related to integrity of the game. I think a 4 game suspension, million dollar fine, and loss of draft picks would be an appropriate penalty . . .
The NFL’s 2015 injury report policy reads: “All players with significant or noteworthy injuries must be listed on the report, even if the player takes all the reps in practice, and even if the team is certain that he will play in the upcoming game. This is especially true of key players and those players whose injuries have been covered extensively by the media. This policy is of paramount importance in maintaining the integrity of the game.”
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Sue U wrote:Hell of a sixth inning for NYM, must be great to be back home -- and now in it to win it.
Not so much.
Congrats to the KC Royals -- well deserved!!
Sue, fire up the wine bottles . . .
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Congrats to the Royals. They played well. Base by base, opportunity by opportunity. They didn't miss taking advantage of anything. They hit, they ran, they won.
Oh well.
In April, if wsomeone told me the Mets would make it to the playoffs let alone the World Series I would have said they were nuts.
Maybe next year.
Just saw a headline on Yahoo news that says the Patriots have been winning the coin toss at a near immpossible rate. I'm blocked from the article so I don't know the rate they are winning the toss. Should be 50% over the long haul. unless they have a way of "fixing" that also?!?!?!?
Perhaps over a million tosses there would be a higher expectation of averaging....
Cue the conspiracy theories.
The New England Patriots, fair or not, are forever synonymous with cheating — or at least as long as head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady are doing their thing. From spy-gate to deflate-gate or any other "gate" they have been suspected of — bugged locker rooms, doctored energy drinks, icy hot in the athletic supporters, and the like — there has been a pall cast over this team.
But they also win a lot. Games and coin flips, it turns out.
Skill or luck? As noted by the Boston Globe, the Patriots have won 19 of their past 25 coin flips, which is about a 1 in 189.5 probability (or 0.5 percent chance). Worse odds even than when the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers lucked their way into the top pick in the draft, able to take Kyrie Irving.
How does Belichick do it?
Assuming he, or someone else with the team, is not pulling a McNally and doctoring the coins, the Patriots are just getting lucky. But it's what they're doing with that luck that gives them an advantage.
Winning the toss typically means that NFL teams defer to the second half and opt to kick off to start the game to the opponent. Why give them first dibs at the ball? There are a number of reasons, but gaining second-half momentum, adjusting to weather conditions or getting a first look at how a team comes out offensively could give the Patriots a window into what kind of gameplan the opponent is trying to execute. The Patriots tend to defer but not always.
“It’s one of the things we discuss prior to the game," Belichick said. “We try to do what’s best for that particular game, for that particular situation. Sometimes we actually withhold that decision until we see what the actual field conditions are for that particular game — like last Thursday night."
Of course, the headline suggests something funny is at work here — that's a pretty incredible success rate for a supposedly 50-50 proposition. And if it was any other team receiving the luck, no one would bat an eye. But with the no-stone-unturned Patriots — or to some of you, Those Cheating Dogs — this has a foul scent to it.
But, sorry ... we don't expect Coingate to be a yearlong, NFL-driven saga. That wouldn't be money well spent.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
