Cookie Thread Act 6: Cookie & Thread

General
#21103

the chaos of the knuckleball comes from the fact that removing the spin from the pitch makes it unfathomably susceptible to changing course from the slightest turbulence

#21104

baseball is one of the only sports where you can have a 40% success rate on offense and be considered great. if a basketball player hit 40% of their jump shots their ass is getting cut

#21105

also George Kirby has thrown exactly one knuckleball. which sounds fucking wrong considering that guy’s philosophy is that he hates Walks more than literally anything. but he did it as a tribute to Tim Wakefield, which I fucking love

#21106

isnt this most sports

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#21107

no, actually
an american football team scores 60% of the time when it has the ball

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#21108

hockey, football, maybe boxing if you count that

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#21109

and the thing is that you can have around a .300 batting average in baseball, failing 70% of the time, and still be considered excellent if you hit for home runs

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#21110

oh i consider on base percentage for my success rate calcs. walks/hbps are forms of success, just perhaps less exciting ones

#21111

i disagree being beaned is a noble art

#21112

you know what the most hype way to score in baseball is? the fucking BALK
this is now a BALK chat

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#21113

Do you also watch Smartypants?

#21114

that’s right we’re talking about balks again. the balk rule is beautiful

#21115

…the Dropout show? no, I don’t have Dropout yet

#21116

I watched an episode last night where someone said the thing about a .300 being excellent almost word for word.

#21117

one of my favorite things is gaming the elite stats. technically the best possible thing you can do for FIP (fielding independent pitching) involves one of your players committing an error

#21118

this is because FIP uses strikeouts per innings pitched instead of strikeout percentage for some reason. meaning that to optimize FIP it’s in your best interest to get more than three strikeouts per inning. which is possible if your catcher fucks up

#21119

This was in the context of Michael Jordan not actually sucking at baseball, but actually being incredible in the context of him not playing baseball for 15 years and being mediocre in his first year in the majors. It’s honestly insane in that framing.

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#21120

balks are very simple. if you start doing the thing you can’t stop doing the thing. don’t do that

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#21121

MJ never played in the majors

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#21122

and make no mistake, he was bad in the minor leagues. just fucking incredible for someone who is incidentally also the greatest basketball player of all time

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