Recent content by chop2chip

Suarez seems like a guy I’m going to completely forget exists in about 45 days.

The amount of debt a student takes on to obtain the wage premium is relevant, no?

my chart is about Student loan debt

Trees don’t grow to the sky

I’d love to hear how any of this weakened China

I know this never gets said, but AA needed to add a starting pitcher

If you’re wondering why we stopped getting daily updates from these guys

I admire that you are willing to spend more for worse care (and more so appreciate that you recognize this will happen), but for whom? This didn’t quite answer the question of who falls out in the current system

Not sure if you intended to disagree with anything I said, but I feel like I covered this by saying he’d be the best pitcher in baseball (which includes Skubal). But it’s also true Skubal would be better if he played in Randy’s era. That’s all I’m trying to say

Randy is the most dominant pitcher in my lifetime. He would be the best pitcher in baseball. But he also immensely benefitted from being one of the only hard throwing pitchers in his era. Modern hitters are accustomed to velocity the previous eras

Of course. But there is similarly a huge cost (short and long term, direct and indirect) to destabilizing the world’s energy supply for an extended period, creating a failed state with a power vacuum, spending hundreds of billions, weakening relationships with allies, enriching Russia, losing...

It’s a flawed rhetorical exercise. Randy Johnson wouldn’t be as good in the modern game (and Sale would have been better in the 80’s). We don’t have any data on whether Glavine disproportionately benefitted from a worse called strike zone. He wasn’t one of the best pitchers of his generation...

Brother in Christ. It’s a message board. The point of this place is to discuss. Otherwise, what’s the point of this place?

We don’t have to grade them on a curve. We spend massive amounts on our defense and intelligence apparatus. We can expect accountability. Now if we want to evaluate their actions on a rubric separate from the one they provided, then sure fine. Maybe American deaths and taxpayer dollars are...