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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 5, 2024 16:31:17 GMT -5
Does Worcester knowing who Holy Cross is-- or Holy Cross' audience knowing how important Worcester is to HC-- improve anything? Does putting the Commonwealth on center court improve our marketing or candidates in Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Miami, Denver, New York, or anywhere else? I think it's a little weird. I have no connection to Worcester with warm feelings other than maybe the kind proprietors of the Boulevard Diner.
I don't think of Holy Cross as a Massachusetts institution as much as I do like, Harvard, or Fenway Park. Columbia or NYU is a bit of an NY institution. Maybe Notre Dame in South Bend. Alabama to Tuscaloosa... not sure we have, want, or need such synonymy.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 5, 2024 10:38:52 GMT -5
Oh my gosh Coach Cullen reference...
My grade/range always understood it as the Regis Owls was the official name and mascot, but an Owl was kind of lame, so Raiders got worked in there for both "cool factor" and alliterative purposes.
I am rarely, if ever, "scared," on the subway, but it's been much more dicey in recent years than any time that I've taken the subway. Since the Great Resignation, as well as Mayor Adams' time in office, I used to walk Park Ave and not wander 2 blocks without seeing a cop (not just a traffic officer). Now, I can go weeks without seeing police. Getting on the subway at essentially any stop outside of Grand Central and the train is just pulling in? People rushing to not be late? It's like an Olympic hurdles event. Out of 13 people, I was the only one that paid the fair (and I CAN jump the thing, so don't say I'm just too out of shape nowadays).
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 2, 2024 14:28:46 GMT -5
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 2, 2024 12:14:48 GMT -5
It WOULD be very cool, Ignutz. However, there is a directly correlated proportion of "coolness" to "offensive," so if you put a big knight on horseback with a lance, somebody who can't find the Hart Center on a map would complain to the HC administration that they're a bunch of bigoted racists because a newspaper published somewhere by a bunch of ignorant window lickers ALSO uses a Crusader. Instead, we can probably do a watermark on the court of the peace sign, a rainbow flag, or a W2, since liberals like taxes to pay for everything so much! /endrant
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Post by WCHC Sports on Feb 1, 2024 12:53:21 GMT -5
I was a lower Westchester attendee 2000-2004. There was always a good 10-12 kids on the express bus from White Plains through Yonkers headed downtown towards Regis, Loyola, and a few for Marymount. Farthest Regis students in my day came from Stamford, Katonah... plenty from Staten Island, Brooklyn, and even a few from Jersey.
Although, I did have two classmates in my homeroom in Freshman and Sophomore years that laughed when they heard I woke up at 6am to get to school on time. One, who lived on 85th Street, still managed to race the homeroom bell all disheveled, and had a car drive him the two blocks each day. His dad was an "entrepeneur" much older than the average father. (Me, at 13: "What the #$@&^*! is an entrepreneur?") Another lived in a brownstone next to the museum on 5th, with actual Picassos and other French artists' works in the place. His mom was a professional art curator. An easy walk to school. What a range of demographics...
To give you an idea about the commuter nature of the student body, years before my enrollment, the jacket and tie combination for students was removed in favor of a "business casual" look. Young nerdy kids on mass transit in a suit and a blazer was a "rob me" sign across MTA. Only one mugging I'm aware of during morning commute in my four years (a basketball player, actually, so no little scrawny Regis stereotype).
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 31, 2024 9:24:11 GMT -5
Wouldn't good students, seemingly the definition for admission into Yale, get mostly As? That's one argument. By extension that should mean that students at Centerville Community College never get above a C..... Good point. I guess I'm thinking something along the lines of: all bugs are insects, but not all insects are bugs. Every student at Yale is a good student, but not every good student goes to Yale.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 31, 2024 8:43:18 GMT -5
Wouldn't good students, seemingly the definition for admission into Yale, get mostly As?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 31, 2024 8:42:08 GMT -5
You need to be baptized. The intention is that you're not converting to the faith at 11 years old trying to get into the school.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 29, 2024 10:28:47 GMT -5
Only the most capable, intelligent, generous, funny, talented, and good-looking folks go there, so that I am sure, must help.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 29, 2024 10:10:27 GMT -5
Don't get discouraged We will get much better in the next year or two...Keep the faith I don't want to be a Mets fan: "wait 'til next year." I fkkin HATE that mentality. Get. Better. Now.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 29, 2024 9:59:00 GMT -5
Only on Crossports A thread that discusses both a player's competing for a starting job and his prospects for the Heisman! I mean, I'm biased because I started the former's idea with my post.... but I'd put $100 on him not playing at all before I put $100 on him winning a freakin' Heisman trophy.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 25, 2024 10:19:50 GMT -5
Is he going to start, or even play?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 25, 2024 9:46:35 GMT -5
I totally forgot to tune into this game last night. I don't think I've ever been more checked out from the MBB program, and that's saying something given that I managed to pay attention to most of the last 2 seasons under Nelson. I believe we are headed in the right direction, as long as the portal merry-go-round we've dealt with lately comes to a stop under Paulsen. I think it largely will. This will likely also be the first season that I attend zero games, home or away. My wife is due in 4 weeks (more likely 3 weeks) so I'm officially in stay-put mode. We thought about going up this past Saturday since she's a Loyola alum, and my 4 y.o. daughter has been asking to go to a basketball game. But we ended up doing some work on the house instead. Tempted to take my daughter out to Lafayette for the Wednesday night game but would have to gamble on her ability to get quality sleep in the car since it's a school night. Unlikely. Saturday 2/10 against American probably cutting it too close, we'll see. Like Guile taunts after beating the snot out of somebody: "Go home and be a family man."
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 25, 2024 9:10:27 GMT -5
For Bonds (or for any other player) it’s interesting to me to look at the “similarity scores” that suggest what player is he most similar to through each age. Bonds ended up being most similar to Willie Mays, then Henry Aaron, then Babe Ruth. Did his career start out being similar to those all-time greats through his early seasons? Here’s the similar players for Bonds Thru age 22= Tom Brunansk Thru age 23= Jay Bruce Thru age 24= Jason Hayward All good players but not hofers. His production exploded at age 25. Yes we know that not all players careers have the same trajectory , but it really looks suspicious to me. Did he start the steroids at age 25 season? Compare to Hank Aaron- from ages 21 thru 27 his similarity score had Miguel Cabrera, a certain first ballot HOFer, as most similar each year Ortiz didn't play enough-- wasn't good enough yet, I guess-- to qualify for any meaningful comparisons on Baseball Reference for his age 21, 22, and 23 seasons. Here are the players he best compares with over time: 24 = Casey Kotchman
25 = Mo Vaughn
26 = Nick Johnson 27 = Adam Laroche 28 = Tony Clark
Nobody to really break the bank for.
29 = Justin Morneau
30 = Mo Vaughn
31 = Carlos Delgado
32 = Jason Giambi
Oh, okay, that's a pretty solid jump at the top of his bell curve. And Giambi was on the sauce, too. Surely his numbers should start to taper off?
Ages 33 - 36 = Mark Teixeira (and Ortiz's stats would outpace Mark, even though he put up excellent numbers as a switch-hitter).
Age 37 = Carlos Delgado, again
Ages 38 - 40 = FRANK FREAKIN THOMAS ARE YOU KIDDING ME
So Ortiz's career was not an arc, but basically an arrow shot up and to the right. Even though his damn feet didn't work at the end of his career. So let's not BS each other. He's got more sauce in him than on my veal parm on Sundays. And I still think he's a Hall of Famer despite not being able to run, throw, or catch.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 24, 2024 15:28:17 GMT -5
Are you saying that no pitchers he smashed a home run off of used steroids? Barry Bonds was stealing bases, hitting for average, hitting for power, and winning Gold Gloves before his head was as big as mine. I'm not able to say that it was or wasn't a significant factor. I am arguing that it's irrelevant.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 24, 2024 14:23:06 GMT -5
Manny was a fearsome hitter since he was a young teenager. His legendary exploits permeate the Bronx and lower New York state baseball scenes. At the end (if not the beginning, or the whole time), he was cheating his ass off with steroids. How many pitchers that was he brutalizing were juicing themselves? I assume they were all "dirty," while breaking no rules that explicitly tested for and banned players for using. And I say that as a massive Red Sox hater.
One AA-level player that I work with said he estimates that during that time (he's a little younger than Manny), about 40% of players he came across were on the sauce. Manny so clearly is a great. As is Bonds. As is Schilling.
Do I know what you'll do with an OJ Simpson-type situation where a player literally KILLS people? No. But for being a d-bag to the media? Or taking drugs that probably don't make you an actually more-skillful baseball player? Come on, this is silliness. Phil Rizzuto over AROD?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 24, 2024 12:22:06 GMT -5
How you can get Helton in, or how you can get Ortiz in, but you can't get Manny Ramirez in is baffling. I like the long preamble yesterday during the announcements about character, integrity, and all that. These are guys playing a sport, spitting chaw, scratching their nuts. This isn't a charity award, and in my opinion, not a good-person award.
Steroids or not, Bonds, Clemens, Manny, Arod... undeniably the best players in the history of the sport. These are not fringe guys who got a slight edge. I almost feel like the Hall is accommodating less-dominant players, and compilers, more than the no-doubters, in an effort to try to be "pure." Nonsense. I'm a small hall guy. If they never DOMINATED the game during the era that they played in, then their lifetime of accomplishments must be long and distinguished enough to get them in.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 19, 2024 10:04:53 GMT -5
Why did we move to this killer league with much bigger schools/programs?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 16, 2024 10:47:48 GMT -5
Geographically speaking, NY State is hard to describe; on that all can agree. Speaking of perspective, which city is further west: Los Angeles or Carson City, Nevada? Los Angeles is farther west, but Nevada is the West. Los Angeles is the West Coast. Got it?
Can we all agree to join forces against those lunatics that live in Queens or Brooklyn, but don't say they live on Long Island? You are LITERALLY ON THE ISLAND. You have to cross a bridge or ride a boat to get to your house from other municipalities. It's a borough, it's New York City, but it's on Long Island. I can objectively see it on a map.
[For all those wondering what this has to do with Bill Belichick, this is exactly the type of 48 minute diatribe he'd deliver about punt return formation instead of, you know, the forward pass. That's why this Cowboys fan doesn't want him.]
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 16, 2024 10:00:14 GMT -5
Tallahassee is north of Miami. To get there from Miami, you'd have to go "up north." But nothing in Florida is "the North."
Westchester is North of Long Island. To get to Hartsdale (where I live now) from Long Island, you'd have to go "north." Hartsdale is not Upstate. It is up the state from any place directionally south of it. I agree that Upstate, from my Westchester-life-long perspective, begins around Dutchess.
mm67, would totally agree that Rye and Hastings are pretty different from one another... but they are all equally not-Upstate in rank and title.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 15, 2024 14:40:11 GMT -5
Look, we all know that even though Belichick is out in New England, with Bob Kraft at the helm, it's going to be a happy ending.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 10, 2024 10:34:22 GMT -5
There is some angst, sure, in my parting words. I am not effusive of praise and wondering where they will live, how much they will make, will they get playing time, etc. GTFO of here, and now it's time to focus on who is playing QB next year and how many wins we can bank.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 10, 2024 8:58:31 GMT -5
"The absence of love is not hate. It is indifference."
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 10, 2024 8:55:52 GMT -5
I am a bridge burner. One of the other posters here mentioned classmates that called exes to berate them, or hold out hope for a reunion. I am the opposite. If you want something better, whether it's a bigger-league program with a massive budget, packed stadiums, Brad Pitt hair... whether it's an objectively better decision for you and your family, or even not... I am done. Pillage the treasure, level the buildings, salt the earth, and burn the bridges. One man's opinion: if you don't want to be at HC, then you can go right to [bleep] and I'll focus on who DOES want to be here. That goes for coaches, players, administrators, past opponents. The past is the past. I will pay the same attention to JMU now that I paid them in the past = ZERO.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Jan 9, 2024 11:02:27 GMT -5
I gotcha, '70. As a bit of a contrast to my anecdote, I don't think the SATs could, would, or should be the sole arbiter. My point is most simply that, without standards, it's difficult to distinguish people in any sort of objective way. If everyone is on a curve, and everyone is deserving, we protect no significance of the rigors or importance or, dare I say it, superior value that HC strives to deliver, relative to the vast number of competing options for higher education in the US.
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