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| Name: | Tom Clancy |
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yerfatma has posted 145 links and 6922 comments to SportsFilter and 17 links and 1197 comments to the Locker Room and 1 column.
The Story of Alex Villaplane, France's First World Cup Captain:
13 July 1930 Captains France in their first ever match at the World Cup finals, a 4-1 victory over Mexico.
26 December 1944 Shot by firing squad having been condemned as one of the most despicable traitors in his country's history.
posted by yerfatma to soccer at 04:14 PM on November 16 - 9 comments
Hull City Comes Out Against Diving: .
posted by yerfatma to soccer at 08:49 AM on October 03 - 10 comments
The Profound Stupidity of Football: A review of the new book, Why England Lose and Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained. [psst: they mean "soccer"]
posted by yerfatma to soccer at 08:09 AM on October 02 - 16 comments
How Not to Write a Sports Column: Everybody has bad ideas. The trick is to forget them before you publish them in a newspaper.
posted by yerfatma to culture at 04:06 PM on September 09 - 47 comments
Banhammer Requested: Sell you wares elsewhere. I blame owlhouse for this.
posted by yerfatma to bugs at 10:41 AM on August 31 - 29 comments
doesn't mean that the others are believing pseudo-science.
No, no, I definitely don't want to suggest that. More my reaction to the people suggesting any change in approach is a bad idea.
posted by yerfatma at 04:10 PM on November 20
The same week the "experts" said women should get less mammograms you get a perfect example of why women should do any and all preventative measures. Ironic.
she said the experts that developed the new guidelines were not even doctors. This is a very real reminder of why those should not be adopted.
This is a very good reminder why the Internet should be destroyed. Because it's an incubator for blanket statements. The fact that someone is not a doctor doesn't mean they can't assess the value of a test. In fact, if they actually understand statistics and probability, it would be a benefit. Not all doctors do. Most people don't. The subject is often counter-intuitive and leaves people thinking it's nonsense ("90% of statistics are made up"). Look at the trouble people had in the Bill Belichick thread about probability. Regardless of whether they're a doctor or not, I wouldn't want them predicting outcomes for me.
I know he can be a controversial figure, but if you're seriously interested in the subject and not just looking to acquire a new canvas for your finely wrought set of broad brushes, Malcolm Gladwell's article on mammography and the perception of what is "obvious" is a look.
You would think they would wait until their was some solid evidence one way or the other before they adjusted recommendations.
But what if there all solid evidence against mammography is shouted down as controversial or pseudo-science? We think we're at the forefront of technology, but often we use these things to reinforce our existing beliefs and prejudices. This is a particularly delicate subject because it's health and womens' health to boot. But no one's saying, "Fuck it, smoke a carton a day and don't worry about getting screened." What people are saying is you can't rely on a magic machine to take care of you, you also have to examine yourself and get regular exams from a doctor. But the debate gets turned into a False Dilemma between mammograms and no exams.
From that article:
"In a major study of mammography's effectiveness . . . women who were given regular, thorough breast exams but no mammograms were compared with those who had thorough breast exams and regular mammograms, and no difference was found in the death rates from breast cancer between the two groups. "
"There is nothing in science or technology that has even come close to the sensitivity of the human finger with respect to the range of stimuli it can pick up. It's a brilliant instrument. But we simply don't trust our tactile sense as much as our visual sense."
posted by yerfatma at 02:23 PM on November 20
Wow, thanks. I'd meant to run that down after it was mentioned on Football Weekly. Just makes the whole thing sadder; seems like he was a good person.
posted by yerfatma at 08:44 PM on November 19
Females don't respond in the same manner and this wacko took advantage of that fact.
Among any number of problems with this assertion is the fact, if the timeline from ESPN's replays can be believed, she was responding to being punched in the back.
posted by yerfatma at 05:53 PM on November 19
I'm calling B.S. on the argument that this incident garnered more publicity because it was a woman who did it.
Do you honestly think what she did doesn't happen in men's athletics? Even if it's fairly rare, how many men's sport programs are there in the NCAA? They have to be generating a dozen incidents of equal "quality" annually, but they don't make it onto ESPN. I'll give you that she was repeatedly nasty and she made the mistake of doing it in front of a TV camera, but that's not enough to get you wrap-around coverage on ESPN.
posted by yerfatma at 03:44 PM on November 19
I don't particularly give a tinker's damn
Hey!
posted by yerfatma at 08:40 AM on November 19
Or, put another way- has Sabremetrics finally infiltrated the mainstream?
I don't know if it's that or if the sheer volume of Sabermetrics-oriented bloggers saying Greinke was sure to get jobbed embarrassed the old-school writers into voting for him. If things were less clear-cut, I doubt the writers would pick anyone but the guy with the most wins, as long as his ERA was close to respectable.
posted by yerfatma at 08:39 AM on November 19
Not sure, but you can start looking here.
posted by yerfatma at 01:45 PM on November 18
Why does every post turn into you trying to define the meaning of a word? It's an award for the best pitcher in the league that year, not every pitcher that had a good year. Also, there'd been about a hundred blog posts in the run up to this award from people who were sure Greinke would be "robbed" of the award.
posted by yerfatma at 01:43 PM on November 18
Whoa, I thought he was joking when I saw "That's pretty much how I pitch, to try to keep my FIP as low as possible" attributed to Greinke out of context. But he means it:
"David DeJesus had our best zone rating," Bannister said, referring to the Royals' left fielder. "So a lot of times, Zack would pitch for a fly ball at our park instead of a ground ball, just because the zone rating was better in our outfield and it was a big park."
posted by yerfatma at 12:08 PM on November 18
Yet another reason to drink during the week.
posted by yerfatma at 12:04 PM on November 18
I call New Hampshire bias.
Mixed with a virulent hate of semiotic derailments.
posted by yerfatma at 12:04 PM on November 18
I wouldn't go as far as to say that he "deserved" it since there are a few other pitchers that "deserved" to win as well, IMO.
I think we'd all love to hear who those pitchers were that had better seasons than Greinke. Otherwise that's just another of your "Could mean anything" statements. That was the 31st best pitching season of all-time. The next best season on that list from 2009 belongs to Chris Carpenter at #82.
posted by yerfatma at 10:57 AM on November 18
Steve Spagnuolo is 1-8 with no relief in sight. Is he on the block?
I can't imagine that. He's starting from scratch.
posted by yerfatma at 08:55 AM on November 18
Stephanie Spielman Dies of Cancer
I wouldn't want to tell someone who'd been hit by lightning there's little risk of being hit by lightning.