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@roccoofrhode

“Not only over the seas but on land did they kindle the lovely torch of freedom and independence”

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Rocco
Rocco@roccoofrhode·
@notgaetti According to these people’s logic we shouldn’t believe Chapman threw 105.8 in 2010 because no one has broken it yet. I don’t know if Ryan hit 108 but I don’t know that he didn’t. People need to be more skeptical about what’s “impossible.”
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Not Gaetti
Not Gaetti@notgaetti·
A lot of people think it’s impossible that Nolan Ryan in 1974 could have thrown the fastest pitch in MLB history, simply because they assume today’s athletes are all bigger, faster, and stronger. Can Those People also explain Secretariat’s records from 1973 remaining untouched?
Not Gaetti@notgaetti

According to science, Nolan Ryan’s fastest pitch was 108.5 mph. I suppose it’s no wonder why he has the most: • no-hitters • one-hitters • two-hitters • three-hitters • 200-K seasons • 300-K seasons • strikeouts in a year • strikeouts in a career

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Rocco@roccoofrhode·
@NateDuncanNBA Apron rules killing what little parity existed, another boneheaded Adam Silver innovation that had the exact opposite of the intended effect
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Nate Duncan@NateDuncanNBA·
Today has already had unprecedented blowouts.
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Keith Smith@KeithSmithNBA·
@celticslurk2000 @mrlf9332 Cunningham was one game away from making it. He hadn't been missing games for load management. He would have easily made it if not for a weird injury. I don't think this was a way out of bounds granting of eligibility.
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Keith Smith@KeithSmithNBA·
I love Jay Bilas, but I don't think Jaylen Brown is making All-NBA First Team. I think that's going to be: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Nikola Jokic Victor Wembanyama Luka Doncic Cade Cunningham Brown will get Second Team, and that's still a honor for one hell of a season.
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David Hines@hradzka·
this is the moral of seemingly every tv show these days and *it is a bad and wrong moral* (“All this would be solved if these people just went to therapy!” “Are you in therapy?” “Uh… yes” “Is your problem solved yet?” “FUCK OFF”)
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Rocco@roccoofrhode·
@JeremiahDJohns Back then writers were readers who had some experience with classic literature. Writers today don’t even watch movies.
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Jeremiah Johnson 🌐
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns·
Clueless was an adaptation of Emma. 10 Things I Hate About You was Taming of the Shrew. Lion King was Hamlet. She's the Man was Twelfth Night. Feels like we used to do lots of kids/teen movies that were based on classic literature, and we just stopped? Should do more of that.
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Rocco@roccoofrhode·
@dsonoiki In the 2000s, message board posting gym teachers were discovered to be better sportswriters than most paid media columnists
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Gene Parmesan@dsonoiki·
when I became a TV writer, accounts like Howlingmutant’s used to scare me here I was getting paid astronomical sums to write for hit comedies, yet I’d occasionally see Twitter accounts that were every bit as funny as the funniest writer on the show and those people worked at call centers, warehouses, or the ferry I’d think, “wow I’m so lucky that person doesn’t live in LA and doesn’t have an agent” I can’t think of many equivalents either I don’t think there’s a random guy playing pickup basketball in Rochester who is as good as the pros but also Hollywood is about connections and being “diverse” helps too
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Rocco@roccoofrhode·
@Alexfeinberg Most tragic thing is that women are some of the best, most conscientious workers - if they’re a minority. But have too many or put them in charge and it’s a disaster.
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Rocco@roccoofrhode·
@SydSteyerhart @curtis_yarvin It’s actually incredible how precisely current facebook has recreated old newspapers from first principles. Mix of hard news, fake slop news, town gossip, classified ads.
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Walter
Walter@MovieDweller·
As far as rhetorical shots go, Tucker’s “I feel sorry for him, as I do all slaves” was much stronger than Trump’s reheated “low IQ” bits. My completely impartial observation.
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Rocco@roccoofrhode·
@olympicbean The fact that you led off with Mike Brown as LeBron’s biggest help on that squad should tell you something
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Rocco@roccoofrhode·
@ac_eds_ @LukaDoncicStanD Yeah 2009 the winningest team of his career and it was with a bunch of scrubs. He was an unbelievable basketball machine. Nothing like it before or since
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AC@ac_eds_·
@LukaDoncicStanD 2009 LeBron. Absolutely unreal athleticism and motor with already very high BBIQ. Don’t confuse team success with individual ability; those 1st stint CLE teams were literally bottom-3 rosters and Bron dragged them to 60 wins.
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Rocco@roccoofrhode·
@GLIAClegend @Federic40255760 @lisanalcraig @Travis_Sawchik Using that guy’s logic, since average FB velocity is up since 2010, we should have seen someone eclipse it. Obviously that measurement must be wrong otherwise there would be guys getting past it since we “know” everyone throws harder now!
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Federico
Federico@Federic40255760·
@roccoofrhode @lisanalcraig @Travis_Sawchik But it's still worth ridiculing the position since a) there were no reliable measures back then and b) how come nobody else ever since touched 106 while he was up to 108? Especially when we have guys sitting 100, which he was not
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Rocco@roccoofrhode·
@morepellent @Travis_Sawchik How is “power model” not a choice? Hitters are selected/trained for power hitting, not for ability to avoid Ks. Batting averages would likely be going down regardless of pitch velocity because as you stated, no one values it.
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Morepellent@morepellent·
@roccoofrhode @Travis_Sawchik Is here. Because they need to try and convince you the power model is a choice, not a response to pitching thats harder to make contact with, because everything they preach is reliant on being able to make contact essentially whenever you want.
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Rocco@roccoofrhode·
@LevAkabas Nice data, matches up with eye test. Wild to see how fast “team offense” dries up when bad defenders are taken off the floor in the playoffs.
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Lev Akabas@LevAkabas·
Four ways the NBA playoffs are different from the regular season 🧵 (1) Pace slows down... WAY down in recent years
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Rocco@roccoofrhode·
@CoreyB08 Very few ball knowers in these replies. Sad.
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Corey B
Corey B@CoreyB08·
Idc if Cs fans want to have outrage for Al Horford if he wants back on a vet min next year I want him in Boston period
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Rocco@roccoofrhode·
@lisanalcraig @Travis_Sawchik Yes I agree it’s very fair to question it. But it is not fair to ridicule it as impossible because you have a chart of average speeds going up over the last 15 years.
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