Friday, May 24, 2013
HHS: Autin: Miguel Cabrera to the max
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Read More...Baseball Fates, please note (please?): I’m just playing around here! None of these things will actually come to pass; it’s just a way of expressing how hot he’s been so far.
Miguel Cabrera finished Thursday’s game #45 with a .391 BA, .701 slugging, 1.168 OPS, 14 HRs, 55 RBI, 39 Runs, 72 hits, 129 total bases, and an OPS+ well north of 200.
The projection multiplier from 45 to 162 is 3.6, so….
Heads up, Hack? Bourn’s gift to Miggy (plus Thursday’s daily dinger) put him on a ...
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< 1 2Sure, but that's true with all ambiguous sentences like this. The challenge, frequently not met, is recognizing when the sentence can be interpreted another way.
Part of why it is going away is in online use, consecutive whitespace is ignored, so double, triple spacing has no effect. Your browser will treat it as a single space. So you guys are welcome to pound out as many spaces as you'd like, but us typography nerds won't be subjected to this bizarre practice.
If you are absolutely set on double-spacing you can put in non-breaking spaces manually by typing non-breaking spaces using:
Here is an example. Doesn't it look stupid?
The sentence in your example, if it's referring to just two people, would properly be punctuated as "My brother Thomas and Steve like having sex with farm animals." No ambiguity there. Written with the commas, it can only refer to three different people. I know because Ben Yagoda told me.
But y'all can do what you want.
(I also prefer punctuation outside the quotation marks, but not living in England, I'm stuck
With the US punctuation rules on that one.)
This caused me to look at the source code on the Hey, Bill page at Bill James Online... and yes, James actually does use 2-5 consecutive ampersand-nbsp's after every sentence, varying the number every time. Direct quote from the source:
I replaced the &'s with !'s to stop the interwebs from converting my non-breaking space tags to actual non-breaking spaces. But you get the idea.
I actually didn't know people stopped using double spaces until this article. Very strange. I just (Oct 12) finished an MS thesis paper and definitely used double spaces throughout, and they were very anal about formatting, so I'm surprised.
Big "believer" in 47/quotation punctuation.
The challenge is quitting those farm animals. You wouldn't believe how gentle they can be.
I negotiate and draft contracts, and there isn't a lawyer in my biz that doesn't use 2 spaces after a period. It's never been an issue.
Makes me long for the good old days of no-registration BBTF, when a thread hijack was generally a lot more rude and clever. Cookie Monster, where art thou?
Maybe this is why firms won't hire me. I need to go edit my resume now.
I don't mean to be mean, but instead of complaining about thread hijacks, maybe people should try and steer the thread to in topic comments. It's ridiculous to see people who have not participated in the thread on topic, to then pop in here and complain about thread hijacks.
There were plenty of in topic comments on this thread, a hijack only happens when the thread doesn't show speed enough to prevent a hijack. Come in and join the discussion. Prevent the hijack with on topic discussion, instead of a piss and moan about a thread hijack.
FanGraphs.
Are you from Europe?
This was one that cost me an A on my first brief in law school, the punctuation goes inside the quotation mark more often than not. The general rule is to put the punctuation inside the quotation mark. The exception would be if you asked a question, but your quote wasn't a question. For example:
Did you just say, "hello"?
As opposed to:
Did you just ask, "what's up?"
Both are correct, what is not correct is:
The sign changed from "Walk", to "Don't walk".
This is not the rule anywhere other than America, as near as I can tell.
edit: btw, this is another one of those things they get right over there. The overall ease of the metric system leads me to believe that were baseball created in Europe sabremetrics would have been invented and perfected in the 1950s.
Like we have perfected football stats? If baseball was invented in Europe there would have been one stat, runs. RBI? Bah, nerd.
If it shows how non-globalized my thought process is, I had literally no idea what you were talking about for like 5 minutes. That's how long it took me to remember Soccer was a thing, and it was made in Europe, and ya'll call it football. Do you call American football gridiron? Is that really a thing or just something people are trying to get everybody to say?
In my experience you call it "American Football".
Sorry, I should correct that for UK punctuation. 'American Football'.
"American Football", or a suitable translation, like "Amerikansk Fotboll". Of course, there is seldom any need to distinguish between the sport and the league here, nobody cares about local leagues or college ball, so "NFL" works too.
Interesting. When I was learning Arabic the book always translated it as gridiron, and I was wondering if that was a European thing as I didn't know where else that word could have come from.
I am not. I just think punctuation outside the quotation makes more sense. Much like #61, I also negotiate and draft contracts for a living. I have begun to follow my preferred approach to punctuating quotations in my documents (the European approach). I have found many who are willing to to accept this approach as correct. I have also found that lawyers aren't all that militant on the two spaces thing.
Interesting article, and I have little doubt that its conclusion--that capital letters are making their way out of our written language--is correct. I'm not sure whether it'll take merely 30 years or 100, but that's the direction the language is moving.
More generally, whether crotchety old whiners like myself like it or not, txtspk isn't just a teenage fad, it's English evolving in front of us. I can foresee a time in the not-too-distant future--probably not during my lifetime, but probably during my grandchildren's--whn vwls n a lot of sprflus cnsnnts fal nto gnrl dsuse.
The Gdanskians are way ahead of us on this.
Only if you have more than one brother. If you have one brother and toss in his name anyway, it's your brother, Thomas, ...
Player W GS ERA+ IPCarl Hubbell 253 433 130 3590.1
Joe McGinnity 246 381 120 3441.1
Stan Coveleski 215 385 127 3082.0
Billy Pierce 211 432 119 3306.2
Tim Hudson 197 405 126 2682.1
David Cone 194 419 121 2898.2
CC Sabathia 191 383 125 2564.1
Dutch Leonard 191 375 119 3218.1
Jimmy Key 186 389 122 2591.2
Dave Stieb 176 412 122 2895.1
Kevin Appier 169 402 121 2595.1
This suggests he's got something of a HOM case already in terms of quality and longevity, but of course without the high IP and thus Wins totals that prevailed for such starters in the early 20th century and got Hubbell and McGinnity and Coveleski to the HOF. (Hey, there's how to avoid the ####ing Oxford comma, just keep repeating "and.")
Here's a list with the same criteria, but "through age 36" instead of complete career:
Player W GS ERA+ IPEddie Plank 251 406 123 3432.2
Whitey Ford 232 422 132 3053.1
Warren Spahn 224 404 127 3231.0
Tim Hudson 197 405 126 2682.1
CC Sabathia 191 383 125 2564.1
Kevin Brown 180 399 130 2776.1
Jimmy Key 180 378 122 2512.1
Dave Stieb 175 409 123 2845.0
Kevin Appier 169 402 121 2595.1
Hudson doesn't have some of the charismatic accomplishments of Plank or Ford or Spahn (another way!), but if he keeps cranking out the 16-9 seasons for another few years, he's going to have some impressive career totals.
Oh definitely. I've only been a lawyer for less than a year now, and I'm still learning what I can and can't ignore from law school, but I knew all along that lawyers and judges are much less demanding than a legal writing professor. That said, I have a few appeals going before the Arkansas Court of Appeals, and I've been told by multiple clerks to make sure my briefs would garner at least a B in legal writing.
In Aus/NZ it's about an equal split among "gridiron," "American football" and "NFL." It is way more popular than baseball and, surprisingly to me, the NBA. The latter could be an age thing and maybe the kids are more into NBA ... certainly you see a lot of NBA jerseys around and Lebron is used to sell shoes.
The metric system can get bent. "190 centimeters? That's so much shorter than 205!"
Everyone falls off. Even Picasso. Matisse was reduced at the end of his life to doing cut-paper compositions. One reason we're stuck with such shitty mainstream media work is that the people who are good when they're young get to stick around forever. How else do you explain Eddie Murphy?
But, yeah, sadly, Bill's not interesting these days. He wasn't all that interesting, either, as early as the 1990s. We'll always have the abstracts, though. That was a Ruthian peak.
I actually had heard somewhere that one space was the new standard for word processing. I did not pay much attention at the time, but I guess it is the new wave, as I am seeing it more and more when I am sent documents in Word or WP. Still, as a long time touch typist, putting two spaces after the period is pretty much a matter of muscle memory now.
I was taught to NOT use the oxford comma. I think it looks odd when I see it.
I was taught to put the punctuation inside the quotation marks, and I mostly do, but sometimes it just looks wrong.
As to Caps Lock, I hate that key because there is some combination of keys that I keep hitting by accident that turns on the all caps function in the font, so that even when I hit the Caps Lock key again to turn it off, it stays on. I have to go into "font" on the ribbon and uncheck "all caps". I would be very happy to see that key go away.
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