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@SyracuseMets @metrbocker Why did you post the throw twice though

@metrbocker it is it is we promise 🫶

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@TJStats @jazonandes @AndThatsBB Some would say 5% is 5x greater than 1% so it’s a big difference

@jazonandes @AndThatsBB That is just how it is defined. Anything below 5% is treated as 5%. Not much difference between 1% and 5%

1% catch probability

@memecrashes Who cares

"just waves and water from pole to pole" oh boy am I going to info dump you with the hairy-ball theorem and a full topology dissertation on how you *cannot* have a continuous wave waving around the planet in a differentiable way for more than one full spin

@thehayfinch @DodgersDeadly @tangotiger Sure but doesn’t make the point as good as 49% would. Either way OP was bad at phrasing

@PawnSlayer69 @DodgersDeadly @tangotiger They gave you an obvious strike with only 25% of the ball and said it would be called a ball, isn’t that better?

For those arguing for "50% of ball" standard to be a strike, please note your mind will be blown when you consider a ball that goes to a corner Because in image below, 50% of the ball *is* inside the strike zone. It doesnt LOOK like 50%, but if you like trig, we can prove it

@AndThatsBB 100% free throw shooter but don’t ask him to shoot live

How do you explain this to a non-baseball fan? “This guy makes $20m per year to throw the baseball. But if he has to throw the baseball slightly differently, he forgets how to throw the baseball”

@tangotiger You edited the picture but I feel like you need to edit your phrasing instead

For those arguing for "50% of ball" standard to be a strike, please note your mind will be blown when you consider a ball that goes to a corner Because in image below, 50% of the ball *is* inside the strike zone. It doesnt LOOK like 50%, but if you like trig, we can prove it

@allie__voss I don’t think they are claiming there is a magic word to say. I believe it would be to avoid saying a certain word

Guys this is not true There’s not some magic word you can say to make them drop the price Every time you tell a bride this you sound ridiculously out of touch

@liberal_outcast @vrexec @jason334990 What do you mean by this? But SALT is still capped at $40k (and reverts back to $10k in a couple years)

@vrexec @jason334990 If you’re saying this, you shouldn’t be doing any analysis. Standard deduction is way way way lower than the mortgage interest deduction plus SALT. With SALT cap removed, you essentially write off $330k over 5 years of taxes, which is about $100k.

I'm doing some back of the envelope math on buying vs renting. Say you buy a $1M house with 20% down at about 6% mortgage rate and plan to stay there for five years. Your principal paydown in the first five years is about $57,000, but you've paid about $230,000 in interest. You've also paid roughly $100,000 in property taxes, insurance, and maintenance. Say the house appreciated 2.5% every year — so when you sell it's worth about $1.13 million. Your all-in costs to sell are about 7.5% — brokerage commissions, transfer taxes, attorney fees, title insurance, and the inevitable post-inspection negotiation. On a $1.13M sale that's about $85K in fees. So you net about $1.046M. You still owe $743K on the mortgage. You walk away with about $303K in cash — your $200K down payment back, your $57K in principal, and about $46K in net profit from appreciation. Your non-recoverable costs — interest, property tax, insurance, maintenance — were about $330K over five years, or about $5,500/month. That's your effective rent. But you "made" $46K selling, or about $770/month — so your effective rent was about $4,700/month. Not bad, but you tied up $200K for five years to get there. And if appreciation was 1.5% instead of 2.5%, that net gain basically disappears and you're paying $5,400+/month in effective rent. And this assumes there's appreciation at all — and that something doesn't go wrong with your house that needs a major remodel or repair. On a five-year horizon at 6% rates, you need everything to go right on appreciation just to make ownership competitive with renting. The transaction costs eat most of your upside. What am I missing? Anything?

@DodgersDeadly @tangotiger Yeah I feel like OP would be better off showing an example with 49% in the zone, and say “this would be called a ball”

@tangotiger OK? And? You’re proving the opposite point with this stuff

@DodgersDeadly @Quickstats_Mets @tangotiger @forgottenclips Agreed

@Quickstats_Mets @tangotiger @forgottenclips Of course. He was saying that you wouldn’t think that 50% is in the zone because it doesn’t look like it. I’m saying you wouldn’t absolutely think that because it looks like even more is in the zone.

@tangotiger Definitely looks like 50% of the ball is inside to me

@mrnateathon @itgetsbretter @Deezus_Walks I can’t get through it (and neither can they for that matter). But I didn’t say it’s for them, not me

@PawnSlayer69 @itgetsbretter @Deezus_Walks Then how can you get through it, if it’s for them; not you?

I have finished watching ALL 90+ theatrically released Disney+Pixar movies and this is the ordered tier list

@mrnateathon @itgetsbretter @Deezus_Walks Because I enjoy reading to my children and try to limit (albeit unsuccessfully) the shows & movies they watch

@PawnSlayer69 @itgetsbretter @Deezus_Walks Usually movie novelizations aren’t good, though. Why read that before the movie?

@itgetsbretter @Deezus_Walks I can’t even get through 2 pages of the book

@Deezus_Walks I truly don’t understand everyone’s problem with WISH. Classic Disney lore, so many funny bits & a few truly great songs. “Knowing What We Know Now” could have been the next “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.” It’s not perfect but the worst movie Disney ever made let’s be reasonable.

@Chris_NYY28 @fuller_grif While I 99.9% agree with you, the Mets have been historically terrible in these situations and ‘25 Mets would have certainly still lost. That being set our roster moves should’ve improved these situations

@fuller_grif Honestly unless he scores standing up I dont see how you send him. You can literally win the game with 2 consecutive outs if you have 2nd and 3rd and nobody out down 1. A tie is a virtual guarantee. Its a crazy decision

The decision to send Lindor by the Mets 3B coach is the worst send maybe in the history of baseball. You’re down 4-3 with nobody out and runners on 2nd and 3rd if he holds Lindor. Absolutely brutal decision making.

@bballdad44745 @TJStats @gaelickguidette Conditioned to 2D forever? Brother we live in 3D

@TJStats @gaelickguidette It amazes me people think in an umpire’s mind that they visualize that 3D box standing back there… we as humans have been conditioned to the 2D pane of glass forever (our TV screens are 2D)… people just need something to complain about…

once you think of the strike zone as a 3 dimensional shape for the ball to hit you know this is a strike

@OneTiredDragon @JustAGyer Man clearly misreads post

@JustAGyer Man seethes over other people clearly having a good time and hurting nobody.

If you want to be one, that’s fine. But please keep your weird fandom at home, in private. I don’t feel comfortable seeing Mets fans in public.

@JonathanL81419 @Mike_Peters_LGM He succeeded at cleaning up the city and was mostly a good mayor, despite other failures

@PawnSlayer69 @Mike_Peters_LGM Giuliani was a failure at all things, except marketing himself.

NYC murders per year: 1955: 306 1965: 634 1975: 1645 1985: 1384 1995: 1177 2005: 539 2015: 352 2025: 303 NYC is safer now than it has been in many decades. Yet the average Boomer New Yorker will try to convince you that crime is worse now than it was in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

@mphelpsm @DKOSullivan @jakehalloran1 @LinkofSunshine But one main reason why LGA is limited from long distance as opposed to JFK or Newark is due to its shorter runways better suited for regional jets

@PawnSlayer69 @DKOSullivan @jakehalloran1 @LinkofSunshine It's because of a Port Authority rule, not the runway length. The rule doesn't apply on Saturdays and airlines have occasionally flown Sat-only LGA-LAX

Mets leave out of JFK???????

@DKOSullivan @jakehalloran1 @LinkofSunshine Correct runways aren’t long enough and believe the cutoff is 6 hours / 1500 miles

@jakehalloran1 @LinkofSunshine Wait, why can’t West coast flights leave from LGA? Are the runways not long enough for bigger planes?