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I had to post this on here because I’m so excited about it, I won the qualifiers today!!! I had to beat tapscott and a few other amazing players, but I was able to pull it off. My team wasn’t even very good, but I was able to figure it out with them. There were so many stories from my games, I even skipped my homework today because I had to compete. Maikel Franco and Joe Morgan were my MVPs, I’m making a half of fame team for them all I don’t care.
Sorry for the excitement but I’m just feeling sky high!! I didn’t expect to make it past like the round of 64 so this was incredible
Can you please use periods
Use button accuracy. You’ll never make a throwing error again.
Just an FYI that there was a notification for flash sales today. The flash sales are as follows:
4 PM ET: Live Series Diamond 5: DOTP elite 6: Diamond Headliner set 11-46 7: Beach Ball
I’ll freely admit that I like older legends (pre-70s guys) more than newer, 90s and 2000s legends. And I also understand why lesser, recent players are added more to the game. They’re more popular, and people grew up watching those guys. It makes sense to include more of them, especially because they’re remembered so fondly by the player base.
At the same time though, I hope that efforts are continued to bring more guys into the game from before the 70s. Guys like Tris Speaker, or Babe Herman, or Satchel Paige. After the last 2 legends were announced, Roberts in particular, I’m getting worried that no old legends will be added.
It sucks playing there. It absolutely sucks. You don’t have to hit the ball well for it to be a home run there because of the high altitude and bandbox dimensions all around. It’s just not fun at all, and it’s not even a visually interesting stadium in any way. And all of this is compounded by the fact that over 50% of games are played there. It’s just so frustrating because there’s nothing you can do about it - you have to rely on your opponent missing the ball instead of you making bad pitches.
At least the other high altitude stadiums are deep with somewhat interesting visuals. I’d much rather play at any of them than Shippett.
@IIJACKINTHBOXII said in Hey SDS, Can Ty Cobb be an 8th inning boss?:
Just use Rickey. He’s cooler and less racist. Boom.
I can’t believe there are people out there who still think Ty Cobb was some horrible monster. The claims stemmed from his biographer Al Stump and were done purposefully to make Cobb look bad. In reality he was one of the few old players who advocated and pushed for integration. Just look it up.
Anyways OP, I would imagine an inning boss would have to be his place since he was also a headliner earlier in the year. He could also be an event reward for whatever the next one is.
@notoriousHEB said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker:
@Original_Quad said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @notoriousHEB said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @Kovz88 said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @PeuswahBoy said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @notoriousHEB said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @Kovz88 said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @DanielFeces said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker Is there some meaning to this I’m not understanding? And why would SDS chose this to put on the opening menu? Because people are more upset about buildings being burned/destroyed when protests get out of hand than about people of color being killed. Honestly, thinking like this is so out of touch. In LA a low income housing complex was burnt to the ground. Thousands of businesses, including those of black business owners destroyed killing off their livelihood for their family and pouring all their hardwork down the drain. The communities being destroyed are communities of minorities and communities of good people, having their world destroyed. It's criminal. It's disgusting. And at the end of the day it just heaps more suffering onto good black Americans. Nevermind the fact that what, 20 people died as a result of rioting, most of which were black? There's no common sense allowed when extremists are calling each other names and invalidating rational thought. Stop it or you're racist. At this point if you can't see the racism in this country I don't necessarily think you are racist, I do however think you are ignorant and in this day and age with this much knowledge at our fingertips if you are still ignorant it is by choice which is unacceptable. Educate yourself or get out of the way Ignorance would be not acknowledging all the data at your fingertips for police interactions and violent crimes. When controlling for violent crimes, white men are killed by police at a rate of 4 per 10,000... Black men 3 per 10,000... From the time of engagement to shooting white men are shot quicker... When evaluating officers white officers it is found they shoot less frequently than black or hispanic officers... When looking at interracial crime statistics, black on white crimes occurs 10x more than white on black crime... When looking a murders of black vicitims over 90% are commited by a black offender. Black on black homicide accounts for more than 50% of all homicides in the country. Now what we have a problem with is a fatherhood problem. A child without a father is 5x more likely to not graduate high school, 9x more likely to grow up in poverty, and 20x more likely to end up in prison. The single mother rate for black americans is over 70%, completely inverse of other races which are approx 30% and less. 7 out of 10 black children are born to single mothers... What is this important? Well the reason above, but also there are 3 sequences in order to be economically successful in life 1-graduate high school, 2- get a full time job, 3-get married before having children -- if you do those 3 things you have only a 2% chance of living in poverty and 75% chance at being middle class... But unfortunately many children in the black community are put at a disadvantage by their own parents -- not all but at least 70+%... It's sad and there's many outreach programs to help compensate. Asians for the record earn more money than white people on average -- they also have higher graduating rates and lower single mother rates. It's all connected. Does racism exist? Of course. There are isolated incidents of racism and this isn't heaven it's earth with flawed humans. However, in no way shape or form is this country systematically racist -- there is no social contract, no codified law -- no systematic racism... And the statistics don't back it either. There are so many government programs out there to assist and provide to people who are disadvantaged economically as well, whether it be food, housing, phones, or school expenses and many explicitly for black americans or minorities. Racism and prejudice will exists amongst individuals, however, is it systematic or wide spread in society? No - and the data, codified law, and social contracts prove it. Race baiters won't admit it, that's how they make their living. Their whole argument hinges on statistical disparity automatically equals racism, it's ridiculous. Asian Americans are actually more successful than white people, why is that ignored? Doesn't fit the narrative. 95% of police killings are men, does that mean police target men and are attempting to genocide males? Of course not. The rates at which black people are killed by the police are completely disproportionate to the percent of the population they make up. Black people are also incarcerated at much higher rates because they’re presumed guilty, sentenced to longer terms in prison, and jailed on much more minor offenses than other races. And because they’re jailed more and for longer, that cause many families to be without parents, not something inherent in black culture. Black on black homicide is an overblown talking point. For the record, 83% of white people are killed by white people, a stay you forgot to say. It’s almost like you’re more likely to be killed by people around you, crazy. If you don’t think systemic racism exists then you’re ignoring all of its signs. It’s how black people aren’t considered worthy for loans, or that they’re rejected from jobs because they aren’t “professional” enough, or how black children are more likely to be diagnosed with more severe forms of attention disorders than white kids. Racism doesn’t just manifest itself in overt KKK rallies or hate speech. It’s the unconscious and conscious biases that cause people to make decisions based on race. Systematic racism is where those biases come into effect at every level of the system, where a black person has to act “articulate” or “white” to make sure they don’t get shot by the police, or to get into the job they wanted. Black lives matter. A life is invaluable. Buildings can be rebuilt. A persons life cannot. You dont understand how math works. Police fatality as a percentage of population is not how you measure police treatment, not all black/white/hispanic/asian people commit crimes at the same rate, you need to control for interactions with police, and the best way to do so is using violent crime as your control and using all deaths regardless of reason. In these interactions with police white people are killed more frequently and are killed quicker. You also don't understand the numbers you are reading, black on black homicide accounts for more than 50% of homicides in the entire country... Yes, black people are 13% of the population, yet black on black homicide accounts for more than 50% of all homicides committed. That is not overblown, that is an epidemic proportion, and yet it's totally ignored. Every week you have a dozen black americans slaughtered in Chicago and there's never a single march or protest because they are killed by someone of the same skin color so apparently that means less to the media. Of course black lives matter. But you don't care enough to address the problems in the black community honestly, and instead the BLM organization ignores these problems to push their marxist agenda on the backs of black americans, exploiting them. Systemic racism requires either a social contract or codified law, neither of which exist in the country. And the data presented to you already that you didn't understand shows there are problems and issues unrelated to race but rather can be connected to other issues that result in those outcomes across all races regardless of skin color. Not worthy for loans? You realize there's loads and loads of fair lending regulations and lenders are relentlessly regulated and examined on a continual basis so that they don't do what you describe -- there is literally a system built with laws, regulations, monitoring, and penalties to ensure proper treatment... I don't think you understand what systemic means the least bit. Before you claim systemic racism you better come to the table with a specific codified law that is racist and charges black people differently than other people. There is none.
@Original_Quad said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker:
@notoriousHEB said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @Kovz88 said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @PeuswahBoy said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @notoriousHEB said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @Kovz88 said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @DanielFeces said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker Is there some meaning to this I’m not understanding? And why would SDS chose this to put on the opening menu? Because people are more upset about buildings being burned/destroyed when protests get out of hand than about people of color being killed. Honestly, thinking like this is so out of touch. In LA a low income housing complex was burnt to the ground. Thousands of businesses, including those of black business owners destroyed killing off their livelihood for their family and pouring all their hardwork down the drain. The communities being destroyed are communities of minorities and communities of good people, having their world destroyed. It's criminal. It's disgusting. And at the end of the day it just heaps more suffering onto good black Americans. Nevermind the fact that what, 20 people died as a result of rioting, most of which were black? There's no common sense allowed when extremists are calling each other names and invalidating rational thought. Stop it or you're racist. At this point if you can't see the racism in this country I don't necessarily think you are racist, I do however think you are ignorant and in this day and age with this much knowledge at our fingertips if you are still ignorant it is by choice which is unacceptable. Educate yourself or get out of the way Ignorance would be not acknowledging all the data at your fingertips for police interactions and violent crimes. When controlling for violent crimes, white men are killed by police at a rate of 4 per 10,000... Black men 3 per 10,000... From the time of engagement to shooting white men are shot quicker... When evaluating officers white officers it is found they shoot less frequently than black or hispanic officers... When looking at interracial crime statistics, black on white crimes occurs 10x more than white on black crime... When looking a murders of black vicitims over 90% are commited by a black offender. Black on black homicide accounts for more than 50% of all homicides in the country. Now what we have a problem with is a fatherhood problem. A child without a father is 5x more likely to not graduate high school, 9x more likely to grow up in poverty, and 20x more likely to end up in prison. The single mother rate for black americans is over 70%, completely inverse of other races which are approx 30% and less. 7 out of 10 black children are born to single mothers... What is this important? Well the reason above, but also there are 3 sequences in order to be economically successful in life 1-graduate high school, 2- get a full time job, 3-get married before having children -- if you do those 3 things you have only a 2% chance of living in poverty and 75% chance at being middle class... But unfortunately many children in the black community are put at a disadvantage by their own parents -- not all but at least 70+%... It's sad and there's many outreach programs to help compensate. Asians for the record earn more money than white people on average -- they also have higher graduating rates and lower single mother rates. It's all connected. Does racism exist? Of course. There are isolated incidents of racism and this isn't heaven it's earth with flawed humans. However, in no way shape or form is this country systematically racist -- there is no social contract, no codified law -- no systematic racism... And the statistics don't back it either. There are so many government programs out there to assist and provide to people who are disadvantaged economically as well, whether it be food, housing, phones, or school expenses and many explicitly for black americans or minorities. Racism and prejudice will exists amongst individuals, however, is it systematic or wide spread in society? No - and the data, codified law, and social contracts prove it. Race baiters won't admit it, that's how they make their living. Their whole argument hinges on statistical disparity automatically equals racism, it's ridiculous. Asian Americans are actually more successful than white people, why is that ignored? Doesn't fit the narrative. 95% of police killings are men, does that mean police target men and are attempting to genocide males? Of course not. The rates at which black people are killed by the police are completely disproportionate to the percent of the population they make up. Black people are also incarcerated at much higher rates because they’re presumed guilty, sentenced to longer terms in prison, and jailed on much more minor offenses than other races. And because they’re jailed more and for longer, that cause many families to be without parents, not something inherent in black culture. Black on black homicide is an overblown talking point. For the record, 83% of white people are killed by white people, a stay you forgot to say. It’s almost like you’re more likely to be killed by people around you, crazy. If you don’t think systemic racism exists then you’re ignoring all of its signs. It’s how black people aren’t considered worthy for loans, or that they’re rejected from jobs because they aren’t “professional” enough, or how black children are more likely to be diagnosed with more severe forms of attention disorders than white kids. Racism doesn’t just manifest itself in overt KKK rallies or hate speech. It’s the unconscious and conscious biases that cause people to make decisions based on race. Systematic racism is where those biases come into effect at every level of the system, where a black person has to act “articulate” or “white” to make sure they don’t get shot by the police, or to get into the job they wanted. Black lives matter. A life is invaluable. Buildings can be rebuilt. A persons life cannot.
@Kovz88 said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @PeuswahBoy said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @notoriousHEB said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @Kovz88 said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @DanielFeces said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker Is there some meaning to this I’m not understanding? And why would SDS chose this to put on the opening menu? Because people are more upset about buildings being burned/destroyed when protests get out of hand than about people of color being killed. Honestly, thinking like this is so out of touch. In LA a low income housing complex was burnt to the ground. Thousands of businesses, including those of black business owners destroyed killing off their livelihood for their family and pouring all their hardwork down the drain. The communities being destroyed are communities of minorities and communities of good people, having their world destroyed. It's criminal. It's disgusting. And at the end of the day it just heaps more suffering onto good black Americans. Nevermind the fact that what, 20 people died as a result of rioting, most of which were black? There's no common sense allowed when extremists are calling each other names and invalidating rational thought. Stop it or you're racist. At this point if you can't see the racism in this country I don't necessarily think you are racist, I do however think you are ignorant and in this day and age with this much knowledge at our fingertips if you are still ignorant it is by choice which is unacceptable. Educate yourself or get out of the way Ignorance would be not acknowledging all the data at your fingertips for police interactions and violent crimes. When controlling for violent crimes, white men are killed by police at a rate of 4 per 10,000... Black men 3 per 10,000... From the time of engagement to shooting white men are shot quicker... When evaluating officers white officers it is found they shoot less frequently than black or hispanic officers... When looking at interracial crime statistics, black on white crimes occurs 10x more than white on black crime... When looking a murders of black vicitims over 90% are commited by a black offender. Black on black homicide accounts for more than 50% of all homicides in the country. Now what we have a problem with is a fatherhood problem. A child without a father is 5x more likely to not graduate high school, 9x more likely to grow up in poverty, and 20x more likely to end up in prison. The single mother rate for black americans is over 70%, completely inverse of other races which are approx 30% and less. 7 out of 10 black children are born to single mothers... What is this important? Well the reason above, but also there are 3 sequences in order to be economically successful in life 1-graduate high school, 2- get a full time job, 3-get married before having children -- if you do those 3 things you have only a 2% chance of living in poverty and 75% chance at being middle class... But unfortunately many children in the black community are put at a disadvantage by their own parents -- not all but at least 70+%... It's sad and there's many outreach programs to help compensate. Asians for the record earn more money than white people on average -- they also have higher graduating rates and lower single mother rates. It's all connected. Does racism exist? Of course. There are isolated incidents of racism and this isn't heaven it's earth with flawed humans. However, in no way shape or form is this country systematically racist -- there is no social contract, no codified law -- no systematic racism... And the statistics don't back it either. There are so many government programs out there to assist and provide to people who are disadvantaged economically as well, whether it be food, housing, phones, or school expenses and many explicitly for black americans or minorities. Racism and prejudice will exists amongst individuals, however, is it systematic or wide spread in society? No - and the data, codified law, and social contracts prove it. Race baiters won't admit it, that's how they make their living. Their whole argument hinges on statistical disparity automatically equals racism, it's ridiculous. Asian Americans are actually more successful than white people, why is that ignored? Doesn't fit the narrative. 95% of police killings are men, does that mean police target men and are attempting to genocide males? Of course not.
@Kovz88 said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker:
@PeuswahBoy said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @notoriousHEB said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @Kovz88 said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @DanielFeces said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker Is there some meaning to this I’m not understanding? And why would SDS chose this to put on the opening menu? Because people are more upset about buildings being burned/destroyed when protests get out of hand than about people of color being killed. Honestly, thinking like this is so out of touch. In LA a low income housing complex was burnt to the ground. Thousands of businesses, including those of black business owners destroyed killing off their livelihood for their family and pouring all their hardwork down the drain. The communities being destroyed are communities of minorities and communities of good people, having their world destroyed. It's criminal. It's disgusting. And at the end of the day it just heaps more suffering onto good black Americans. Nevermind the fact that what, 20 people died as a result of rioting, most of which were black? There's no common sense allowed when extremists are calling each other names and invalidating rational thought. Stop it or you're racist. At this point if you can't see the racism in this country I don't necessarily think you are racist, I do however think you are ignorant and in this day and age with this much knowledge at our fingertips if you are still ignorant it is by choice which is unacceptable. Educate yourself or get out of the way
@PeuswahBoy said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker:
@notoriousHEB said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @Kovz88 said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @DanielFeces said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker Is there some meaning to this I’m not understanding? And why would SDS chose this to put on the opening menu? Because people are more upset about buildings being burned/destroyed when protests get out of hand than about people of color being killed. Honestly, thinking like this is so out of touch. In LA a low income housing complex was burnt to the ground. Thousands of businesses, including those of black business owners destroyed killing off their livelihood for their family and pouring all their hardwork down the drain. The communities being destroyed are communities of minorities and communities of good people, having their world destroyed. It's criminal. It's disgusting. And at the end of the day it just heaps more suffering onto good black Americans. Nevermind the fact that what, 20 people died as a result of rioting, most of which were black? There's no common sense allowed when extremists are calling each other names and invalidating rational thought. Stop it or you're racist.
@Kovz88 said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: @DanielFeces said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker Is there some meaning to this I’m not understanding? And why would SDS chose this to put on the opening menu? Because people are more upset about buildings being burned/destroyed when protests get out of hand than about people of color being killed. Honestly, thinking like this is so out of touch. In LA a low income housing complex was burnt to the ground. Thousands of businesses, including those of black business owners destroyed killing off their livelihood for their family and pouring all their hardwork down the drain. The communities being destroyed are communities of minorities and communities of good people, having their world destroyed. It's criminal. It's disgusting. And at the end of the day it just heaps more suffering onto good black Americans. Nevermind the fact that what, 20 people died as a result of rioting, most of which were black?
@DanielFeces said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker: “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker Is there some meaning to this I’m not understanding? And why would SDS chose this to put on the opening menu? Because people are more upset about buildings being burned/destroyed when protests get out of hand than about people of color being killed.
@DanielFeces said in “I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker:
“I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker Is there some meaning to this I’m not understanding? And why would SDS chose this to put on the opening menu?
“I wish America cared about black folks as much as they care about buildings.” -Cole Tucker
Is there some meaning to this I’m not understanding? And why would SDS chose this to put on the opening menu?
Because people are more upset about buildings being burned/destroyed when protests get out of hand than about people of color being killed.
Honestly, thinking like this is so out of touch.
In LA a low income housing complex was burnt to the ground. Thousands of businesses, including those of black business owners destroyed killing off their livelihood for their family and pouring all their hardwork down the drain. The communities being destroyed are communities of minorities and communities of good people, having their world destroyed. It's criminal. It's disgusting. And at the end of the day it just heaps more suffering onto good black Americans.
Nevermind the fact that what, 20 people died as a result of rioting, most of which were black?
There's no common sense allowed when extremists are calling each other names and invalidating rational thought. Stop it or you're racist.
At this point if you can't see the racism in this country I don't necessarily think you are racist, I do however think you are ignorant and in this day and age with this much knowledge at our fingertips if you are still ignorant it is by choice which is unacceptable. Educate yourself or get out of the way
Ignorance would be not acknowledging all the data at your fingertips for police interactions and violent crimes.
When controlling for violent crimes, white men are killed by police at a rate of 4 per 10,000... Black men 3 per 10,000... From the time of engagement to shooting white men are shot quicker... When evaluating officers white officers it is found they shoot less frequently than black or hispanic officers... When looking at interracial crime statistics, black on white crimes occurs 10x more than white on black crime... When looking a murders of black vicitims over 90% are commited by a black offender. Black on black homicide accounts for more than 50% of all homicides in the country.
Now what we have a problem with is a fatherhood problem. A child without a father is 5x more likely to not graduate high school, 9x more likely to grow up in poverty, and 20x more likely to end up in prison. The single mother rate for black americans is over 70%, completely inverse of other races which are approx 30% and less. 7 out of 10 black children are born to single mothers... What is this important? Well the reason above, but also there are 3 sequences in order to be economically successful in life 1-graduate high school, 2- get a full time job, 3-get married before having children -- if you do those 3 things you have only a 2% chance of living in poverty and 75% chance at being middle class... But unfortunately many children in the black community are put at a disadvantage by their own parents -- not all but at least 70+%... It's sad and there's many outreach programs to help compensate.
Asians for the record earn more money than white people on average -- they also have higher graduating rates and lower single mother rates. It's all connected.
Does racism exist? Of course. There are isolated incidents of racism and this isn't heaven it's earth with flawed humans. However, in no way shape or form is this country systematically racist -- there is no social contract, no codified law -- no systematic racism... And the statistics don't back it either.
There are so many government programs out there to assist and provide to people who are disadvantaged economically as well, whether it be food, housing, phones, or school expenses and many explicitly for black americans or minorities.
Racism and prejudice will exists amongst individuals, however, is it systematic or wide spread in society? No - and the data, codified law, and social contracts prove it.
Race baiters won't admit it, that's how they make their living. Their whole argument hinges on statistical disparity automatically equals racism, it's ridiculous. Asian Americans are actually more successful than white people, why is that ignored? Doesn't fit the narrative. 95% of police killings are men, does that mean police target men and are attempting to genocide males? Of course not.
The rates at which black people are killed by the police are completely disproportionate to the percent of the population they make up. Black people are also incarcerated at much higher rates because they’re presumed guilty, sentenced to longer terms in prison, and jailed on much more minor offenses than other races. And because they’re jailed more and for longer, that cause many families to be without parents, not something inherent in black culture.
Black on black homicide is an overblown talking point. For the record, 83% of white people are killed by white people, a stay you forgot to say. It’s almost like you’re more likely to be killed by people around you, crazy.
If you don’t think systemic racism exists then you’re ignoring all of its signs. It’s how black people aren’t considered worthy for loans, or that they’re rejected from jobs because they aren’t “professional” enough, or how black children are more likely to be diagnosed with more severe forms of attention disorders than white kids.
Racism doesn’t just manifest itself in overt KKK rallies or hate speech. It’s the unconscious and conscious biases that cause people to make decisions based on race. Systematic racism is where those biases come into effect at every level of the system, where a black person has to act “articulate” or “white” to make sure they don’t get shot by the police, or to get into the job they wanted.
Black lives matter. A life is invaluable. Buildings can be rebuilt. A persons life cannot.
You dont understand how math works. Police fatality as a percentage of population is not how you measure police treatment, not all black/white/hispanic/asian people commit crimes at the same rate, you need to control for interactions with police, and the best way to do so is using violent crime as your control and using all deaths regardless of reason. In these interactions with police white people are killed more frequently and are killed quicker.
You also don't understand the numbers you are reading, black on black homicide accounts for more than 50% of homicides in the entire country... Yes, black people are 13% of the population, yet black on black homicide accounts for more than 50% of all homicides committed. That is not overblown, that is an epidemic proportion, and yet it's totally ignored. Every week you have a dozen black americans slaughtered in Chicago and there's never a single march or protest because they are killed by someone of the same skin color so apparently that means less to the media.
Of course black lives matter. But you don't care enough to address the problems in the black community honestly, and instead the BLM organization ignores these problems to push their marxist agenda on the backs of black americans, exploiting them.
Systemic racism requires either a social contract or codified law, neither of which exist in the country. And the data presented to you already that you didn't understand shows there are problems and issues unrelated to race but rather can be connected to other issues that result in those outcomes across all races regardless of skin color.
Not worthy for loans? You realize there's loads and loads of fair lending regulations and lenders are relentlessly regulated and examined on a continual basis so that they don't do what you describe -- there is literally a system built with laws, regulations, monitoring, and penalties to ensure proper treatment... I don't think you understand what systemic means the least bit.
Before you claim systemic racism you better come to the table with a specific codified law that is racist and charges black people differently than other people. There is none.
You’re kidding me. Systemic racism requires a social contract or codified law? Loans have regulations so therefore it can’t be racist? There were rules preventing sign stealing and the Astros still did it. People will circumvent rules to their advantage. The war on drugs should have theoretically been fair and legal then right? Except advisors to the president at the time have explicitly said they were targeting black people and hippies.
It’s exactly what I’m talking about and what people like you fail to understand. Racism doesn’t have to be overt to be racist. It’s the prejudices a person has about a race that influences their decisions. The black community has constantly been held back by these prejudices as they’re generally kept out of higher jobs and consistently held to higher standards than white people - like all of the things I wrote in my post.
There’s so many pre ww2 players I’d want to see added, but I’ll name just a few of the more interesting ones:
Grover Cleveland Alexander, one of the best pitchers of all time, would have a 99 sig SP as well as a 85+ reliever card for his work in the 1926 World Series.
Bob Muesel was a forgotten member of the 1920s Yankees who was just as fearsome a hitter as anybody in the league except Ruth. He would likely be a 95-97 overall.
Dazzy Vance didn’t break out until he was 31 - but then proceeded to dominate the National League during the most prolific hitting era ever. He would be a 96-98 SP with outlier.
Smoky Joe Wood had a good pitching career before arm injuries derailed him. He decided to become an outfielder, and he had a decent end to his career. He would have two cards again, and his signature pitcher card would be a pitcher who rakes.
Finally there’s all of the negro league players that have been mentioned in a ton of other threads. Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, Buck Leonard, and every single legend. Those would be the coolest.
What he’s suggesting is that ground rule doubles count as home runs there, which was a rule up until 1931 in the NL
Dude why do you have such a personal vendetta agains future stars? This thread had nothing to do with them
@Oachs83 said in Leaked MLB 21 The Show cover?:
The Jackie Robinson leaked cover shows April 20 release with an April 16th early access (beta) release
Well they were right about April 20th. I hadn’t seen a Jackie Robinson cover though
I would say an average player sits around 400-600 rating. People on this forum and on other forms of media represent people who are really invested into the game. I would say you’re a relatively above average player.
The average player is a guy who hops on for a ranked game once a day or so, maybe plays a few moments, and generally doesn’t play the game for longer bursts than 2 weeks - 1 month at a time. At least, that’s what I think.
Yeah, it’s about to be January, I don’t care, please give him a tribute card.
No difference in their stats. It could just be that Mo is coming into a higher leverage situation in the 8th as a setup man or something like that, but there are no stat changes for relief/closing pitchers whether they’re starting, relieving, or closing.
He’s a very underrated card. Coming straight over the top with the cutter/4 seam/ 2 seam combo is really dirty, and I had trouble with his live series at the start of the year.
But I feel like he’s much easier to hit now. Maybe it’s because lineups are juiced, or because I know what his patterns are, but I’ve crushed him the last few times I played the game.
Because he counts as a monthly awards player. Personally I wish that the collection was either optional or that it added up to 100, but it is what it is.
@EvylShaun said in Robb Nen no outlier?:
@Matt_42187 said in Robb Nen no outlier?: @Chuck_Dizzle29 said in Robb Nen no outlier?: Ask Jim Thome about the 102mph he whiffed on in the 1997 World Series... If my memory serves me correctly, I think he was mostly topping out around 99 back in the day. SDS wouldn’t add the outlier for hitting 101 once or twice during the season, would they? Why not? They give sinkers to guys who have never thrown one. Also, guys arguing about Walter Johnson baffles me. I get that he was technically not recorded as throwing that fast, but the methods used to measure speed back then were wildly unreliable. Big Train is still regarded as one of the hardest throwers of all time, and especially for his era.
@Matt_42187 said in Robb Nen no outlier?:
@Chuck_Dizzle29 said in Robb Nen no outlier?: Ask Jim Thome about the 102mph he whiffed on in the 1997 World Series... If my memory serves me correctly, I think he was mostly topping out around 99 back in the day. SDS wouldn’t add the outlier for hitting 101 once or twice during the season, would they?
@Chuck_Dizzle29 said in Robb Nen no outlier?:
Ask Jim Thome about the 102mph he whiffed on in the 1997 World Series...
If my memory serves me correctly, I think he was mostly topping out around 99 back in the day. SDS wouldn’t add the outlier for hitting 101 once or twice during the season, would they?
Why not? They give sinkers to guys who have never thrown one.
Also, guys arguing about Walter Johnson baffles me. I get that he was technically not recorded as throwing that fast, but the methods used to measure speed back then were wildly unreliable. Big Train is still regarded as one of the hardest throwers of all time, and especially for his era.
This. Also, SDS wants it to feel like how it would have felt facing those guys. Walter and Young and Lefty were all the hardest throwers of their time. For Walter especially I think it can be safely assumed that he was throwing somewhere around 95, considering Feller was clocked 20 years later throwing 100.
You’d think if they’re sticking with Giants then McCovey would be the big reward? I’d love to see that, I’ve always wanted to use a 99 McCovey