Senor educatin' the masses on variance

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

2005!

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Pierzynski.

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God is the uncaused cause of the universe. He had no beginning and has no end. He is not bound by the laws of the universe he created.

As you know I'm a Southside guy....if they were lucky in 2005 so be it

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

2005

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

If "variance" is such a factor why not make a bye for the teams with the best record in each league?

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God is the uncaused cause of the universe. He had no beginning and has no end. He is not bound by the laws of the universe he created.

A World Series championship is a World Series championship. But any outcome you don't like is always due to "luck."

BernSTINE is jealously showing his typical Cubs fan ass.

Get this guy off theair.

I wasndown on Bernstein for awhile, but I gotta say he's really making a mid-career surge lately.

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I haven't heard it, but from listening to him prattle on from Joe Sheehan's newsletter regularly, I can almost guarantee you he doesn't understand what variance actually is, and is misusing it terribly. Sheehan barely has a working understanding of the concept.

It's typical Bernstein. He takes everything to the extreme. While he correctly points out that there is major variance in small sample sizes in baseball, he has to take it to the extreme and basically say that baseball playoffs are 100% random even when his co-host tells him how idiotic it is. There is no middle ground with him.

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The piggery is about as decidedly non Bernstein as a restaurant could be

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

They were " lucky" I don't listen to that horseshit show but if that's his premise...he's correct, lightning in a bottle n won't be replicated anytime soon

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Lucky....define that for me in the context of what we are discussing.

The team was in 1st place wire to wire.

this is lucky

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Last year, he was crying that it wasn't fair that the Cubs had to play a play-in game after a 97 win season. This year, it's not fair that the Giants get to start Bumgarner in game three. They should be punished for being a wild card team.

Pick a lane, guys.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Never said they weren't a very good team for that season...can't deny that, but it was wasn't built got any sustainability.. It was lightning in a bottle.

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Hell of a lucky run through those 2005 playoffs. How many losses?

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Why Dante, whatever do you mean?

They won 90 games the next season despite uneven defense and an abysmal bullpen.

And Brian Anderson. Chicago--nay, the Midwest entire--did not deserve that. That season still pissed me off.

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If he really said they were "lucky," he's an idiot. It wouldn't even matter if you thought that... when a team wins a title, the ends always justify the means. At the end of the day, they still have a WS title. I agree with his philosophy moving forward, but there is no criticism to be had of a team that wins the World Series, especially a team who was as dominant as the Sox were.

Now excuse me while I throw up...

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2004: 83 wins
2005: 99 wins (Won a World Series)
2006: 90 wins
2007: 72 wins
2008: 88 wins (Won Division)

That's not a bad 5 year run.

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If you win a WS, there's nothing to justify. You won a WS.

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What's more important than winning the title is how you win the title.

There is no such thing as "clutch", because you can't quantify it. But, there is such a thing as "luck" according to Danny. I wonder how "luck" is quantified? Variance I guess.

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I might agree. Winning in seven games like having a threesome and bragging about it--but then revealing that one (or more) of the others was a guy. Yeah, great, you had a threesome, but....

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and they won 88 in 2010. That was the year they had those long winning streaks midseason but faded....

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Nothing wrong with a die hard Sox fan having a different view on 2005. Everyone enjoys their championships differently. He chooses to reflect quietly by himself and credit luck. It's all fair and square.

He looks Latino

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It's because of his teenstache and your internalized association with "Señor."

Dan has admitted to crying when the White Sox won the World Series. I'd prefer he not cry for us.

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Que?

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