Kazimierz Kochan

I promise. I will respond to everyone. Thank you so much for the kind words and support. Just wont happen today, alas. I appreciate everyone for ever caring about anything I ever said or wrote during this chapter. Truly.

Alex Tuch might end up being the only worthwhile UFA this summer. He’s going to have so much money thrown at him our heads are going to spin. It will be the right thing for him to do and it will be right for the Sabres to let him walk.

Tomorrow, it’s a gold medal morning 🇺🇸 I’ve directed the State Liquor Authority to suspend enforcement of alcohol service hours from 6–10 AM so bars and restaurants can open early and fans can watch the U.S. go for the gold together. This is only for counties not under a State of Emergency.  New Yorkers in emergency areas should stay home, stay safe, and cheer loud! Go USA!

Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first-year analytics intern. You just got finished reading some Sabermetric historian—Bill James, probably. You’re gonna be convinced of that ’til next month when you get to the latest Pitching+ update, and then you’re gonna be talkin’ about how SIERA is the only "true" measure of skill because it accounts for the complexity of the batted ball profile to CSW rates. You have no thoughts of your own. You’re just looking at a movement plot and trying to sound smart. You’re gonna realize in a couple of years that you spent all that time calculating "Expected FIP" based on a "Skill-Interactive" ghost, when you could’ve just looked at the K/BB ratio and seen the whole picture. The sad thing is, in about five years, you’re gonna realize you’re not that bright. You’re gonna be talkin’ about Skenes’ "Expected ERA" while the real experts are just looking at a box score and realizing that if a guy doesn't walk people and he misses bats, he's gonna be fine. You dropped $100,000 on a Data Science degree to learn how to run a regression on a pitcher's "luck," when you could’ve gotten the same predictive value for five cents in late charges by looking at a K/BB leader board at the public library.

It isn’t overblown one iota. Tell me you weren’t in the building Jan. 31 without telling me you weren’t. And if the team captain mentions it unprompted to the media, it’s a problem.

This is what (the majority of) Patriots fans deserved for being absolutely hateful, vile, mean, derogatory and cruel in any comment negatively mentioning their team, its players/coaches and organization. NEVER experienced more hate from a fanbase than that one. Not sorry.